Winston Sterzel Is Being Blamed For Anti Covid Protests In China

 

Winston Sterzel who lived in China for more than a decade and now lives in the U.S. is being blamed by Chinese influencers on Weibo for the zero-covid protests that took place in China.  

China Wants To Rewrite Its Coronavirus Failures

The Chinese Communist government has ratcheted up its efforts to rewrite history to cover up its failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak.  Li Wenliang who tried to warn other doctors about the outbreak was at first detained by the security services and told not disparage the state.  What followed was a complete cock-up leading not only to uncontrolled outbreak but, the death of Li Wenliang.  His death caused serious outrage  among social media users in China on Weibo .  It wasn't until March that the Chinese Communist government finally and I'm sure reluctantly issued a statement acknowledging the doctors attempts to warn the country and the world about the coronavirus outbreak.

Its been revealed that the CIA has tried to warn the White House about the statistics coming from the Chinese government. Of course Donald Trump just ignored the warning.   

Sadly a large swath of the American public will believe the Chinese governments rewrite of history.

The Chinese state is ramping up its English-language media campaigns in a bid to defend the country’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, highlight the failings of western governments, and raise China’s standing on the world stage.

Photographs of Chinese aid – dubbed “facemask diplomacy” – arriving at Heathrow on Saturday including boxes labelled “Keep Calm and Cure Coronavirus” have been promoted to UK audiences by the Xinhua news agency. Some younger Chinese diplomats have used English-language Twitter, which is banned within China, to spread false suggestions that the virus may have been started by the west to discredit the Chinese state.

Prof Kerry Brown, an associate fellow on the Asia-Pacific programme at the thinktank Chatham House, suggested the country was trying to turn a national disaster into a global triumph: “They’re trying to push back against some of the politicisation of this in America and to try to get control of the narrative before it spirals out of control.”

Xi Jinping Clearly Doesn't Understand Irony

Xi Jinping clearly doesn't know how ironic and absurd this statement he made at a Beijing internet conference is.  

Xi said it was crucial his nation’s 670 million internet users enjoyed online “freedom”, despite widespread censorship and the blocking of many foreign internet services including Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and Instagram.

“As in the real world, freedom and order are both necessary in cyberspace,” Xi told the opening of the so-called world internet conference, taking place over three days in Wuzhen, a town in eastern China.

“Freedom is what order is meant for, and order is the guarantee of freedom. We should respect internet users’ rights to exchange ideas and express their minds and we should also build good order in cyberspace in accordance with [the] law as it will help protect the legitimate rights and interests of all internet users.”

Two days earlier Pu Zhiqiang a fierce advocate for free speech  was put on trial charged with picking quarrels, provoking trouble and inciting ethnic hatred for 7 tweets he posted between 2011 and 2014 on Weibo China's Twitter.