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Originally posted by Isaac soloman Isaac soloman wrote:

Chinese market at centre of coronavirus outbreak sells wolves, rats and bats to eat

A woman has been filmed devouring a bat while at a market at the centre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. WARNING: Graphic

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/warnings/chinese-market-at-centre-of-coronavirus-outbreak-sells-wolves-rats-and-bats-to-eat/news-story/40565ee222aa22612762a9f89111c0fb



PT, but this is your country.
China the great empire.
Did Chairman Mao eat bats?

How do Bats get sold though under Communism? By the bucket? Bat Bucket?

CFB?  Commie Fried Bat?

Nah, that would be too Capitalistic for them.

China was being watched over Hong Kong invasion of rights, now its being watched, as, ummm, being a Commie bat basketcase.

And guess what PT, China is THE ISOLATIONIST.  
If they werent before, they certainly are now.



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Hate to agree with Isaac but it is  a pretty scummy country 
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Prime examples of how vastly different cultures can be - and why we shouldn’t be forced to all live together.....
There’s a reason we have our own countries, and way of life.
Visit, holiday, lease even. But own, buy and get citizenship?
Human rights in reverse actually
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Mark Twain said that if you do this first thing in the morning, you can go through the rest of the day knowing the worst is behind you!Sick

https://www.dudecomedy.net/video?v=wnmpda9mb15
In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Originally posted by Sister Dot Sister Dot wrote:

Prime examples of how vastly different cultures can be - and why we shouldn’t be forced to all live together.....
There’s a reason we have our own countries, and way of life.
Visit, holiday, lease even. But own, buy and get citizenship?
Human rights in reverse actually

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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Lordy no !  No non Chinese can get a toe hold in China, ( not that many would want to ), but they are buying up half the world , by "loaning" money for infrastructure etc and moving in when it cant be paid back. 
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A sickening race in general Angry



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Sick bastards.  Its a wonder they didnt just eat them.
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Does anyone know if that is a true story? It comes from a notoriously dishonest disinformation site.

I googled it and can only find The Sun as the source.

The article says that the owners of the 3 animals have not been identified. How do they then know that they were thrown from buildings because they feared they have contracted a virus that there is no evidence is found in those animals?
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This article is pretty extensive in terms of detail & knowing China, specifics would be hard to come by unless in their language.
I do know there are some wonderful rescue workers & a growing number of pet lovers so am not tarring the entire race with the same brush Wink

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Bit harsh i would have thought ;



We are in a sick world.        > The west has been caught with their pants down before and surely that won't happen again.

War is when not if....     Mad Humans can't help themselves . SO BRAVE

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Did i mention that if it hadnt been for China's dirty health practices around food
THE WORLD WOULD NOT BE EXPERIENCING THE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS...
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China is the worst country on the planet, and by a long long way.
But I was saying that before Coronavirus.


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“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined”
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Great post Dot.
So true. So sad.
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Mega Chinese wool processor grabs another Victorian farm

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SHOW OF CONFIDENCE: Chinese wool magnate, Qingnan Wen, has shown his confidence in Australian wool and food production by buying another Victorian farm.

SHOW OF CONFIDENCE: Chinese wool magnate, Qingnan Wen, has shown his confidence in Australian wool and food production by buying another Victorian farm.

China's biggest buyer of Australian wool is reported to have added to his portfolio of Victorian farmland with the purchase of the historic Mawallok property near Beaufort.

Qingnan Wen, founder of Tianyu Wool, bought the historic 2000ha Lal Lal Estate at Yendon near Ballarat in 2014 which had been held by the Fisken family for six generations.

He then added another 1587 prime hectares with the purchase of Mokanger and Lewana at Cavendish near Hamilton in 2018.

RURAL BEAUTY: The historic Mawallok homestead sits in a large English garden including a lake.

RURAL BEAUTY: The historic Mawallok homestead sits in a large English garden including a lake.

The properties had been listed for sale at $14 million.

Now he has snapped up Mawallok, about 45 minutes west of Ballarat, which covers 2348 hectares and has an estimated carrying capacity of 30,000 DSE.

The property, which has been owned by the Mitchell family since 1980, features a 10-bedroom two-storey heritage-listed homestead set in a 2.5 hectare English garden.

The selling price has not been disclosed but the property went onto the market with a $25 million price tag last October through selling agents, Elders Real Estate.

Mawallock has outstanding water supply via spring-fed lakes, multiple bores, numerous dams and a 231 megalitre irrigation entitlement.

The property was first settled by Alexander Russell in 1847 and was held by his family until the sale to Stephen and Serena Mitchell.

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Foreign Investment Board braces for Chinese takeovers of distressed Australian assets


There is growing concern within the Morrison government about how to handle foreign takeovers of Australian businesses which have ended up in financial strife as a result of the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The Foreign Investment Review Board is bracing for attempts by foreign companies, particularly from China, to take over distressed Australian businesses and assets.

The concern has sparked calls from Liberal MPs to revisit the criteria for FIRB approval of foreign acquisitions, including putting a greater emphasis on company links with foreign governments.

While no such cases are before the FIRB, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has privately expressed concern about Australian assets ending up in the hands of opportunistic foreign interests over the coming months when more companies are expected to fold.

The FIRB is alive to the issue and is preparing for foreign investors to take more of an interest in Australian companies as economic activity cools, according to senior government sources.

The chair of the federal parliament's powerful intelligence and security committee, Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, has also raised the issue directly with the FIRB.

Mr Hastie told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald the COVID-19 outbreak had left the Australian business sector vulnerable to predatory behaviour by "foreign state-owned enterprises working contrary to our national interest".

"More than ever, we need to protect ourselves from geo-strategic moves masquerading as legitimate business," Mr Hastie said.

Victorian Liberal MP Tim Wilson, who also sits on the intelligence and security committee, said FIRB approval may need to be more broadly interpreted to keep some businesses and assets from being "preyed upon as an easy out" during the COVID-19 outbreak.

"We can't allow foreign state-owned enterprises and their business fronts to use COVID-19's economic carnage as a gateway to swoop distressed businesses and assets," Mr Wilson said.

The current thresholds for referral to the FIRB include $15 million for agricultural land and $60 million for agribusinesses.

According to some advocacy groups, foreign investors could present a valuable lifeline to struggling Australian companies in the coming months. But each case should be assessed on its implications for national security, Grattan Institute executive director John Daley said.

"I can see why people are nervy about telco assets and energy assets ... but the bulk of assets which are going to be discounted at the moment are retail businesses, and if someone from China wants to buy a chain of hairdressers or a retailer, then good luck to them," he said.

"Foreign buyers of distressed assets aren't necessarily bad buyers."

Utilities providers and hard infrastructure assets such as ports, would also require special consideration from the FIRB and policy makers in the event of foreign interest, Mr Daley said, but there was little evidence of serious foreign interest yet.

In a statement, Treasury said it did not comment on particular cases it was looking at under the foreign investment screening regime.

"Under the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act, the Treasurer reviews foreign investment proposals against the national interest on a case-by-case basis," the department said.

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They are a plague, come here and wipe our lands dry
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Whereas the British and Americans were very user friendly and paid alltheir taxes to our society
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Coronavirus: Why China’s government is offering COVID-19 aid relief to other countries

As the world crumbles under the coronavirus outbreak, China is making a massive gesture. But experts say the government has a sinister motive.

China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately-needed items to struggling governments around the world.

The Chinese Communist Party has flown gloves and protective clothing to Liberia, sent 100,000 test kits to the Philippines, and sent out a dozen flights carrying millions of masks and other supplies bound for the Czech Republic this week.

The government has given its assistance everywhere from western Europe to the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq and several African countries.

With this aid comes broad public statements of goodwill. In a recent message to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that "public health crises pose a common challenge for humanity, and solidarity and co-operation are the most powerful weapon to tackle them”.

“It is China's traditional virtue to repay goodwill with greater kindness," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said, citing an ancient Confucian saying: "You throw a peach to me, and I give you a white jade for friendship."

But experts say this isn’t an altruistic gesture on China’s part. Rather, it’s part of an effort to reshape the political narrative, and move the country’s tarnished image to one that’s leading the battle to bring the pandemic under control.

Dr Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told news.com.au Beijing is “very astutely exploiting the pandemic for its own benefit”.

“Nothing with China is pure altruism,” he said. “China is using the provision of public goods and soft power to its benefit in this crisis. The virus began in China in terms of spreading from animals to humans, and rapidly took off from there, but now that the Chinese government would appear to have it under control, it’s turning its attention to how it can exploit this situation to its benefit in terms of geopolitical and geo-strategic power.

“One of the ways it can do that is by playing the good international citizen and providing all this aid to other countries who are now entering really tough times with this virus, and Beijing will reap political rewards from that.”

The Chinese government has had an ongoing credibility problem with its own citizens since the outbreak unfolded.

Authorities have been forced to monitor Chinese social media sites to remove floods of angry comments criticising the government’s handling of the outbreak, which was initially deemed delayed and reckless.

Authorities actively suppressed information at the virus’ outset, and silenced those who attempted to speak out about it, prompting global condemnation of the Chinese Communist Party.

But that aside, this also ties into Mr Xi’s long-running vision of placing China at the centre of the world.

There are two important trends playing out right now: the United States is focusing inward, and Donald Trump – Dr Davis says – is “clearly clueless about how to handle this crisis”.

At the same time, he says Mr Xi wants to use the pandemic to present China as a benevolent global leader who is stepping into the leadership vacuum that the US left behind.

“But at the end of the day, China will expect their assistance will become with benefits, and will expect states to pay tribute to China in the form of acquiescing to China’s interests in other areas. There are big geopolitical strings attached to the other side no matter what.”

“If the US is severely weakened, in terms of long-term economic damage, the Chinese will be tempted to extend in that situation to their benefit.

“We could see China not only trying to use soft power and the perception of being a provider of economic goods to try to win global leadership, but also to resolve some issues with hard power.”

In particular, he suggests all eyes should be on Taiwan once the pandemic is behind us. “I think that if the Chinese felt that the US simply wasn’t able to respond, because their economy was shattered … the Chinese might be tempted to make a move against Taiwan. If the US couldn’t come to Taiwan’s assistance, then this would further erode US credibility in the eyes of the region.”

Julian Ku, a law professor at Hofstra University in New York, said China also hopes to benefit from a realisation in the West of how difficult it is to bring the virus under control.

“The Chinese government's failures … will be less harshly viewed in light of the failures of other governments to respond effectively as well," he said.

At the same time, China is deepening ties with countries that have been receptive to its outreach as it assumes a larger international role. It is shipping supplies to Cambodia, whose Prime Minister Hun Sen has been an outspoken supporter of Mr Xi and even visited him in Beijing last month as the outbreak raged.

“It's not an accident that the heat map of where Xi Jinping is sending condolences and China is sending N95 masks overlaps pretty closely with those countries that have demonstrated a willingness to accommodate China," said Daniel Russel, a former senior US diplomat now with the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York.

Opinions vary on the effectiveness of China's efforts.

“It's an open question how far that's going to get … but they're clearly giving it the old-school try,” Mr Russel said. The Communist Party's propaganda, he said, has been more successful at home than abroad.

Clive Hamilton, author of “Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia," said that China has poured enormous resources into shaping the global discourse in recent years.

“It would be a mistake to underestimate how effective” this “major international campaign to rewrite the history of the coronavirus" might be, he said.

But Chu Yin, a professor of public administration at the University of International Relations in Beijing, said China lags the US and Europe in its understanding of public diplomacy and has always struggled to convert humanitarian aid into diplomatic returns.

“If people really expect a big boost of China's influence through the aid, it will be difficult," he said. “In my opinion, let's just take the aid as doing a good deed, and it would help China's economy if the epidemic situation in these countries is contained."

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I think they’re going to have to do a lot more than hand out test kits and face masks to gain political power, be owed favours and gain face on the world stage 🙄
People are finally starting to wake up to the vast differences between communist and democratic leadership and way of life.
Although Australian Govt seems to see us all as a crash test dummies
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There seems to be an unfortunate concurrence between this virus arising, and Chinese New Year celebrations, that have Chinese moving around the world more than any other time of year. One wonders whether that hasn't pushed it out beyond China in a way it might not otherwise have done.
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They say it takes 2 weeks for the seasonal flu to infect every country. This being way more virulent would be even quicker. 
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Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

There seems to be an unfortunate concurrence between this virus arising, and Chinese New Year celebrations, that have Chinese moving around the world more than any other time of year. One wonders whether that hasn't pushed it out beyond China in a way it might not otherwise have done.

Surprised you would post that max.
Now, if i had you and pt would have become the attack team. " oh no not our beloved China..."
The chinese jetting into Milan, IN ITALY, in January, to work in the clothing factories and to go on holiday, from there, might have done it.....
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Coronavirus: Chinese wet markets still operation despite COVID-19

Thousands of people have started to flood back into Chinese wet markets, with bats, rabbits and dogs still on offer despite the coronavirus outbreak.As new cases of the coronavirus continue to decline in China, thousands of people have started to flood back into controversial wet markets across the country.

The city of Wuhan, which has been considered ground zero for the virus outbreak, has started to reopen after being placed on a strict two-month lockdown.

The virus was detected in December and is thought to have originated in a market in the city that sold wild animals for human consumption.

A number of animals, including bats and the highly endangered pangolin, have been identified as possible culprits for the virus.

The Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was shut down in January and in February China declared an immediate and “comprehensive” ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals.But it appears the recent COVID-19 outbreak has done little deter other animal markets across the country from continuing to trade.

A medicine seller at a market in Dongguan, southern China, was seen advertising bats, snakes, lizards and toads to assist with common ailments, the Daily Mail reported.

“The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus,” a correspondent to visited the market told the publication.

“The only difference is that security guards try to stop anyone taking pictures, which would never have happened before.”

Another market in Guilin, in southwest China, was full of cats and dogs crammed into cages in filthy conditions and available for slaughter.

Similar markets are seen in various locations across Asia and have long been condemned, not only for their cruel treatment of animals, but for their unhygienic conditions.This isn’t the first virus that has been linked to wet markets, with the SARS outbreak in 2003 also thought to have originated there.

A study published in 2007 from researchers at the University of Hong Kong described the culture of eating at these wet markets as a “time bomb” for a new virus.

“Coronaviruses are well known to undergo genetic recombination, which may lead to new genotypes and outbreaks,” the paper read.

“The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb.”

At the peak of the virus outbreak in Wuhan the city was recording thousands of new cases a day.

Since then more than 721,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide and the death toll has soared past 33,900.

China has now claimed it has been successful in suppressing the virus, with the US and Italy taking over as the countries with the most confirmed cases.https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-chinese-wet-markets-still-operation-despite-covid19/news-story/104a81601ff7b94fec6dae3e158ad0a1Vendors wait for customers to buy dogs in cages at a market in Yulin, in southern Chinas Guangxi province. Picture: AFP /STR

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WHO accused of ‘Chinese propaganda’ after official refuses to acknowledge Taiwan in bizarre interview

The World Health Organisation is being accused of pushing “Chinese propaganda” after an official refused to acknowledge Taiwan in a bizarre interview.The World Health Organisation is being accused of "carrying China's water" after a senior adviser refused to acknowledge Taiwan during a bizarre interview with a Hong Kong news outlet.

Canadian physician Dr Bruce Aylward, an aide to WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom, sat down for a video interview with RTHK about the coronavirus outbreak where he was asked whether the organisation would "consider Taiwan's membership."

For several seconds, Dr Aylward sat in silence.

"Hello?" the reporter asked.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear your question, Yvonne," Dr Aylward responded.

"Okay, let me repeat the question," she said.

"No, that's okay. Let's move to another one then," the WHO official told her.

The reporter doubled down, saying she was "curious" to talk about Taiwan as well as the ongoing pandemic, but Dr Aylward quickly hangs up.

After calling him again, the reporter asked about what his thoughts were to Taiwan's response to the outbreak.

"Well, we've already talked about China," Dr Aylward answered. "And you know, when you look across all the different areas of China, they've actually all done quite a good job."

‼️WOW‼️ Bruce Aylward/@WHO did an interview with HK's @rthk_news & when asked about #Taiwan he pretended not to hear the question. The journalist asks again & he hangs up!

She calls back & he said "Well, we've already talked about China."

ENJOY+SHARE THE MADNESS! #Critics slammed Dr Aylward and WHO for what they suggested was the global organisation kowtowing to China.

“Aylward's behaviour reminds us that either we remove #China's pernicious influence in multilateral institutions like the #WorldHealthOrganization or the world's free states defund them and start over," author Gordon Chang reacted.

“It is an embarrassing scene,” journalist Ezra Cheung said. “Ironically, despite being so close to China, Taiwan manages to keep the #coronavirus infection and fatality rate low.”

“This is really stunning. Beijing’s power over the speech of a Canadian WHO official,” Axios reporter Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian tweeted.

“When exactly did the WHO become a front for Chinese propaganda?" Grabien media company founder Tom Elliott asked.

Aylward's behavior reminds us that either we remove #China's pernicious influence in multilateral institutions like the #WorldHealthOrganization or the world's free states defund them and start over. https://twitter.com/ezracheungtoto/status/1243869774410469376 

Ezra Cheung@ezracheungtoto

It is an embarrassing scene. @WHO Director General, Bruce Aylward, hangs up in an interview with RTHK when he is asked about reconsidering Taiwan’s membership. Ironically, despite being so close to China, Taiwan manages to keep the #coronavirus infection and fatality rate low.

A spokesperson for WHO told Fox News in a statement the organisation’s “focus at all times is to ensure that all areas of the globe have the information they need to manage the health of their people”.

“In a recent interview, the WHO official who headed the joint international mission to China, did not answer a question on Taiwan’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak,” the statement said.

“The question of Taiwanese membership in WHO is up to WHO Member States, not WHO staff. However, WHO is working closely with all health authorities who are facing the current coronavirus pandemic, including Taiwanese health experts.”

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I see labors Kimberly Kitching agrees with you max re that its "unfortunate"  the chinese wernt more forthcoming re info on the virus.
And ultimately REALLY saving the world.
B#ll sh$t artists....

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I said it was unfortunate the virus came along at Chinese New Year, nothing else.
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