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Thu Mar 12, 2020, 10:15 AM Mar 2020

Full circle. #1 story on "China virus" Fox News about China's PR to blame the US

Inside China's high-stakes campaign to smear the United States over coronavirus

https://www.foxnews.com/us/china-smear-united-states-coronavirus-wuhan

If you listened to Chinese state-run media, you'd think President Trump went to China and released vials of COVID-19 on groups of unsuspecting men, women and children.

It's a high-stakes strategy for the Asian nation fighting to keep its superpower status amid a national lockdown and palpable anger over claims that Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus, at first covered it up, triggering a worldwide health and economic crisis.

At best, China's aggressive new campaign can be chalked up to ambitious propaganda. At its worst, it's a reckless display from a country that has actively misled the world while working overtime to save its own skin, foreign affairs expert Gordon G. Chang told Fox News.

Chinese officials have also pushed back on the expression "Wuhan coronavirus" -- saying the name used frequently by U.S. conservative commentators unfairly stigmatizes the world's most populous country.

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Full circle. #1 story on "China virus" Fox News about China's PR to blame the US (Original Post) underpants Mar 2020 OP
If you listen to Republican media you'd think Xi released vials of "Wuhan virus" on USA. Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #1
The comments to the article prove there are really a lot of shit for brains people in this country. Goodheart Mar 2020 #2
No kidding underpants Mar 2020 #3
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