It's not only Murdoch Mouthpieces having a go at China, as early...

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    It's not only Murdoch Mouthpieces having a go at China, as early as 11 Apr 2020, your beloved Guardian was as well...

    The buck stops with China....Not Trump Not the US...Not Morrison Not Australia....CHINA!!
    No one gives a s**t about anything else other than China taking responsibility and owning up!
    But No, that will never happen...only last night 60mins they played the VICTIM card

    Anyways...below cherry picked paragraphs from The Guardian.....

    China is cracking down on publication of academic research about the origins of the novel coronavirus, in what is likely to be part of a wider attempt to control the narrative surrounding the pandemic, documents published online by Chinese universities appear to show.


    Prof Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute in London,
    “In terms of priority, controlling the narrative is more important than the public health or the economic fallout,

    China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) appears to have published and then deleted new requirements that academic papers dealing with the origins of the virus be approved by China’s ministry of science and technology before publication.

    A source who alerted the Guardian to cached versions of the websites, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they were concerned by what appeared to be an attempt by Chinese authorities to intervene in the independence of the scientific process. The person said researchers submitting academic papers on other medical topics did not have to vet their work with government ministries before seeking publication.

    Scientists believe the transmission was similar to that in the 2002 outbreak of Sars. Some criticism of China has focused on why the government did not shut down wet markets after the previous outbreaks of coronaviruses.

    Kevin Carrico, a senior research fellow of Chinese studies at Monash University,.....
    “There is a desire to a degree to deny realities that are staring at us in the face … that this is a massive pandemic that originated in a place that the Chinese government really should have cleaned up after Sars,”
 
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