China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup

Post by andybak » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 12:12 AM UTC

apostacy wrote: post #230

amluto wrote: post #193

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> IF the virus was lab-borne, and IF the CCP know it was, is it not (very, very remotely) possible they know more about the consequences of this virus? Huh? Suppose it did come from a lab, by malice, incompetence, bad luck, or otherwise. Why would this imply that China knows more about it than anyone else? (Sure, China would have known more about it in the first few months. And they surely did regardless of whether i…

> Suppose it did come from a lab, by malice, incompetence, bad luck, or otherwise. Why would this imply that China knows more about it than anyone else? Because the Chinese government started reacting to it as early as fall 2019, despite the best efforts of American big tech companies to cover it up. Because people made the very reasonable assumption that the unusual and highly virulent form of COVID that originated…

Post by sidewndr46 » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 6:52 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #324

sidewndr46 wrote: post #305

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We're not arguing about the US or the UK here. Mainland China is the topic.

Well originally I was talking about why even though CCP is the single dominant party in China they still want some sort of exit from their Zero Covid policy that doesn't lose them face. Then you made an argument that they're a dictatorship on the grounds that they've turned their troops loose on their own people. Which is a surprising and extraordinary definition, because it also applies to the US and the UK - countr…