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Trump is trying to distract attention from his own failure to prepare for the impact of the coronavirus on the US by blaming China and the World Health Organisation. I am not a supporter of the Chinese government. I regard China as a capitalist state which is increasingly becoming an imperialist power: http://links.org.au/node/2349 But in this case, the criticism of China is largely unjustified, as shown in a series of articles by Vijay Prashad and others (see below). Chris Slee https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/how-china-learned-about-sars-cov-2-in-the-weeks-before-the-global-pandemic https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/15/how-china-broke-the-chain-of-infection https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/how-the-chinese-authorities-and-the-world-health-organization-handled-the-coronavirus _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com