Michael Knox,

It's my opinion that the Wuhan bat soup virus pandemic will set China back 60 years.

When things normalise, the advanced countries will scramble to restructure their economies to become self-sufficient, decreasing reliance on China for manufactures they can produce themselves.

What is the good of China having its industries prepared to supply the world again if the rest of the world is not in a position to buy its products or has decided not to buy its products?

Giday Mr Opinion

And then again Western scholars suspect the so-called "Spanish flu" started in the US in 1918.

But as the US was the major profiteer of WWI, impoverishing the British Empire (including Australia) in paying back US war loans, the US writes the history.

Note:

THE US HAS NEVER BEEEN ASKED TO PAY FOR THE 50 MILLION DEATHS FROM MISNAMED "SPANISH FLU"

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#United_States

"United States

Some have suggested that the epidemic originated in the United States. Historian Alfred W. Crosby stated in 2003 that the flu originated in Kansas,[26] and popular author John M. Barry described a January 1918 outbreak in Haskell County, Kansas, as the point of origin in his 2004 article.[5]

A 2018 study of tissue slides and medical reports led by evolutionary biology professor Michael Worobey found evidence against the disease originating from Kansas, as those cases were milder and had fewer deaths compared to the infections in New York City in the same time period.

The study did find evidence through phylogenetic analyses that the virus likely had a North American origin, though it was not conclusive.

In addition, the haemagglutinin glycoproteins of the virus suggest that it originated long before 1918, and other studies suggest that the reassortment of the H1N1 virus likely occurred in or around 1915.[27]"

Cheers

plantagenet,

Are you suggesting there is a relationship between the Spanish Flu and the Wuhan Bat Soup Virus?

Everybody around the world witnessed the first outbreak of the Wuhan Bat Soup Virus on their televisions, which basically means that there were billions of witnesses to the fact that the coronavirus started in China.

The question now is its source inside Wuhan. Did it escape from a lab or did it migrate from animal to human in a wet market? Either way, China is liable for being the source of the pandemic and should compensate the rest of the world for the damage and loss of life it was capable of preventing.

And Trump?

The novel concept of a country's liability for a WORLDWIDE COVID-19 pandemic is Trump's latest attempt to deflect blame away from his delay in handling COVID-19 spread through the US

- together with Trump treating COVID-19 as fake news.
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States

"Meanwhile, President Donald Trump was optimistic and 'cheer-leading the country,'dismissing and downplaying the threat posed by coronavirus and claiming the outbreak was under control.

February 25 was the first time that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned the American public to prepare for a local outbreak..."

Contrary to what has been a fairly clear anti Islam attitude from China
I wonder if there is a minor shift in that attitude.
China has a copper mine in the Taliban area of Afghanistan and they have
made a deal with the Taliban for them to guard the site.
They are supplying weapons to the Taliban which probably will spell the
end of the Kabul government.
It could be worth considering that both China and Islam have the same
aims, to destroy the democratic countries and to impose their way of
life on the whole world.
They might go into a compact to cooperate in that aim and perhaps divide
the world between them.
I can see that if they succeeded the Islamists would turn on China as
Allah must rule the world.
Can it be that two such powers can avoid real warfare or other conflict ?

«Like them or not, is it possible that China could soon be part of Australia's (and NZ's) re-opened supply chains (plus tourism, education, etc.), along with Taiwan and South Korea ?»

Only if the regime there changes.
Sadly not so likely.
It will, eventually, but what if it takes 1000 years?

Until then, COVID or no COVID, we should have no dealings with China, except perhaps in trying to bring back home from there the last Australian hostages, including children in Wuhan.

Remember how they view Australia? Chewing-gum stuck to the sole of their shoe...

Islands like Taiwan should be OK, perhaps eventually also Japan and PNG, so long as they too agree to have no contact with others outside the bubble, including China, but I would be concerned about having any contact with countries that share land-borders with others that have not yet eliminated the virus.

What a great opportunity to develop self-sufficiency!

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