June 15, 2020
Monday PM

It appears that China Bashing has taken center stage as political fodder for the November Presidential race.

The Trump administration continues advancing its claims that Communist China caused the Covid 19 virus and should be responsible for all the illness, death, and economic harm brought to our nation and indeed the rest of humanity.  As is typical of the Trump administration, those claims are made without evidence and before any proper investigation has been completed. 

The Democrats now also feel they must follow suit since the disinformation media has already convinced most Americans that the latest global crisis really IS China's fault.

Of course this approach is easier politically than actually learning the origins of the disease and finding out why our nation was so unsuccessful at preventing and treating it.

The latest anti China dogwhistle is that the the Chinese government should pay "reparations" to the United States for those pre-judged transgressions.

But what if China replies that the last Global Fiscal Crisis of 2007-09 originated in the United States where a few large banks made some serious errors in mass-selling subprime mortgages?  That crisis had devastating economic consequences all over the world, including China.  In that crisis ten percent of the many billions of dollars paid out by the US treasury to American financial institutions went straight into the executive bonuses of the men who caused the problem to start with.   This being the history, even IF the Chinese are found guilty of causing the virus, reparation payments are unlikely.

Wouldn't it be more productive to advocate reform of our own country's public health system against a future Pandemic?

Michael Spence
Ketchikan, Alaska

About:

Editor's Note:

The text of this letter was NOT edited by the SitNews Editor.

Received June 13, 2020 - Published June 15, 2020

Related Viewpoint:

SitNews ©2020
Stories In The News
Ketchikan, Alaska

Articles & photographs that appear in SitNews are considered protected by copyright and may not be reprinted without written permission from and payment of any required fees to the proper sources. E-mail your news & photos to editor@sitnews.us Photographers choosing to submit photographs for publication to SitNews are in doing so granting their permission for publication and for archiving. SitNews does not sell photographs. All requests for purchasing a photograph will be emailed to the photographer.