Countries pressure other countries to do or not do stuff all the time, no?
No. They don't. I think my question was objectively straight forward too. who pressures the US to do anything? So either you're trolling me and pretending geopolitical hierachy doesn't exist or you may think my question is stupid. Either way...
I don't mean to troll. It just seems obvious to me that countries are pressuring other countries to do stuff all the time. Of course some countries have more power than others. Malawi isn't going to be able to lean on Poland in the same way the U.S. will be able to.
> a) should have been likely Given that coronavirus would not be observable until there is a cluster of symptomatic cases in a city (and a doctor with relevant experience who can observe multiple cases - here 李文亮), I find it highly unlikely that we could observe earlier cases, if they spread less rapidly or outside a city - or even within another city with less institutional knowledge. > b) China would be highly ince…
> China being incentivized to act in that situation, doesn't affect how likely or unlikely that situation was. China being incentivized to find evidence supporting the CCP's desired image absolutely does affect how likely it would be for such evidence to surface if it exists. We see virtually no such evidence; we can assume that's not because China's lack of trying to find it; which should adjust our prior against su…
After thinking about this statement a bit, I must also admit the possibility that it did not originate in a lab yet finding evidence that it did not is still very difficult. That said, I still think that CCP's default strategy to cover up everything and shroud the truth is now hurting it more than if they were just honest and straightforward about what really happened.