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Gordon Chang: What Communists discovered from COVID is real danger

• https://www.wnd.com, By Bob Unruh

Whether the COVID-19 virus escaped from a Chinese research lab, or whether it was deliberately released, isn't the most important thing to note about the issue that unlikely will ever be fully answered, based on China's refusal to cooperate with international health interests.

What is important is to see what China has learned from the episode, according to China expert Gordon G. Chang, who wrote a column at Gatestone Institute, where he is a distinguished senior fellow.

And that would be the benefits to the Chinese Communist Party when such pathogens attack other nations' economies.

That's because it uses a framework called Comprehensive National Power to assess nations, and COVID taught that it could gain influence if its CNP rating was increased – or if that of other nations was degraded.

"If Chinese leaders realize they have an epidemic on their hands that will lower China's CNP, it is logical to turn that epidemic into a pandemic by restricting the spread domestically while not stopping the spread internationally," reported Cleo Paskal, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, documented. "That way, China's CNP might be lowered, but so will everyone else's, and China's relative ranking won't be affected, in fact, it might even improve."

The goal then would be, Chang explained, for Chinese scientists to design pathogens targeting only foreigners.


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