On April 15, BILD, a German newspaper, published an article, ‘What China Already Owes Us,” presenting an “accounting” for the German “corona invoice,” (which the German government did not endorse and called “illusory”) with an amount of nearly €150 billion (US $163 billion) to China, including a €24 billion bill for lost tourism, €1 million per hour for Lufthansa and €50 billion for small businesses affected by the standstill.

The Chinese embassy responded with a furious letter which accused the paper of “stirring up nationalism” and prejudice towards China.

(reference #1)

Your report is not only missing crucial facts and exact timings but also any modicum of journalistic diligence and fairness.

Anyone who makes calculations like this is stirring up nationalism and prejudice as well as xenophobia and animosity towards China.

It does not live up to either the traditional friendship between our people or to a serious understanding of journalism.

Against this background, I ask myself where in your newsroom this dislike of our people and our country has come from?”

BILD editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt responded to the Chinese embassy’s accusation with an open letter addressed to Xi Jinping, titled “You are endangering the world”

(reference #2)

Dear President Xi Jinping

Your embassy in Berlin has addressed me in an open letter because we asked in our newspaper BILD whether China should pay for the massive economic damage the corona virus is inflicting worldwide.

Let me respond:

1. You rule by surveillance. You wouldn’t be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country.

You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world.

2. Surveillance is a denial of freedom. And a nation that is not free is not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything. This is why you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property theft.

China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own. The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don’t let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is Corona.

3. You, your government and your scientists had to know long ago that Corona is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn’t respond when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan.

You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace.

4. The “Washington Post” reports that your laboratories in Wuhan have been researching corona viruses in bats, but without maintaining the highest safety standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners?

Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?

5. In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease.

That is your political legacy.

Your embassy tells me that I am not living up to the “traditional friendship of our peoples.” I suppose you consider it a great “friendship” when you now generously send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship. I would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse.

You plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later.

Yours sincerely

Julian Reichelt

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1. Source: Daily Mail, April 22, 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8244487/China-blasts-Bild-newspaper-demanding-coronavirus-reparations.html

2. Source: BILD, April 17, 2020
https://www.bild.de/politik/international/bild-international/bild-chief-editor-responds-to-the-chinese-president-70098436.bild.html

The Epoch Times reported that it has obtained provincial documents from China that supported the evidence the Associated Press (AP) reported earlier: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knew of the severity of the coronavirus and the likelihood of person-to-person transmission on January 14, 2020; it passed down instructions to local health officials to take cautious measures immediately but did not disclose the information to the public until January 20, six days later. (See Chinascope post: Hiding Information: Document Showed the CCP Hid Information for Six Critical Days of Virus Containment).

The Epoch Times obtained eight documents from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (AR), which the government marked as secret, including the “Notice on Participating in the National Video Conference Training on the Novel Coronavirus Prevention and Control Work,” and the “Urgent Notice on the (Inner Mongolia) AR Video Conference Training on the Novel Coronavirus Prevention and Control Work.”

The documents showed that the government passed the coronavirus training from the central government down to local healthcare practitioners in teleconferences, but informed participants that the information in the teleconferences were “not allowed to be released to public.”

On January 15, the China’s National Health Commission held a confidential national teleconference with provincial health officials on coronavirus treatment. (AP reported the date as January 14, 2020).

On January 17, the Inner Mongolia Health Commission held an AR-level teleconference with the healthcare officials from the AR’s cities and Leagues (an administrative region under the Inner Mongolia AR, similar to Prefectures in the other provinces of China), to provide training on infection case identification and monitoring, management of suspected infectors and people who have had close contact with infected patients, the epidemiological investigation plan, the pneumonia laboratory test plan, etc.

On January 20, the Xilingol League Health Commission held a League-level teleconference with its own healthcare officials, to provide the related training.

Related postings on Chinascope:

• Hiding Information: Document Showed the CCP Hid Info for the Critical Six Days in Virus Containment
• Hiding Information: Wuhan Central Hospital Did Not Allow Staffs to Talk About Coronavirus
• Hiding Information: Wuhan Newspaper Said Doctor Reported Infection Cases in December and Authorities Took Actions Immediately
• Hiding Information: Expert Group Members Suggest Hubei Officials Hiding Information
• Hiding Information: Shanghai Authorities Closed a P3 Lab for Publishing Coronavirus Genome

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It is hard to get true coronavirus infection information from China as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hides it from the public. Recently, information from media inside and outside of China seems to indicate that some places in China are facing the threat of the coronavirus outbreak again.

#1: Some provinces have treated Guangzhou and a few other Chinese cities as high risk regions.

• On April 14, Hainan Province issued a “Notice on Strengthening the Prevention of Infection from Outside of the Province,” which listed Suifen City, Heilongjiang Province (a neighboring area with Russia); Manzhouli City, Inner Mongolia (also a neighboring Russia); and three cities in Guangdong Province including Jieyang, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, as mid-level or high risk regions. In order to be allowed to enter Hainan, any people who traveled to these places in the past 14 days must provide a negative result of a coronavirus test, which must have been taken within the past seven days,.
• People also received a computer notice when they bought airline tickets online that “people from Guangzhou or Wuhan coming to Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (AR), will first be quarantined for 14 days in a centralized location.”
• Some communities in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province posted a notice that people coming from “epicenters (Wuhan, Guangzhou, and overseas)” should register with the community management group and conduct self-quarantine at home for 14 days. (Oriental Daily)

#2: Wang Dingyu, a Legislative member of Taiwan, published a few documents from mainland China on his Facebook account warning of the danger of a second wave of the Wuhan Pneumonia which might occur in China. His documents showed that around mid-April:

• Gaoqiao Town, Hong’an County, Hubei Province restarted temperature testing and disinfection throughout the town after a farmer resident was confirmed because of a coronavirus infection.
• Businesses in Luo Village, Foshan City, and Guangdong Province entered lockdown management after an occurrence of group infection there.
• Qiu County, Hebei Province also resumed its epidemic control measures. (Liberty Times)

#3: On April 10, Wuchang District Novel Coronavirus Prevention and Control Command Center issued a notice to search for any un-quarantined asymptomatic carriers, suspected infectors, confirmed patients, and people with close contacts with the confirmed patients, and to award 200 yuan (US $30) to people reporting information. (China Business Network)

#4: On April 15, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province held an education system meeting and decided to lock down all senior high school students and their teachers inside their schools for over 80 days until they finish the National College Entrance Examination, which is scheduled for July 7 and July 8 of this year. (United Daily News)

#5: In April, the Chongqing Health Commission issued a “Notice on Re-sending the National Emergency Medical Rescue Team” to 17 recipients, most of which were the major hospitals in Chongqing. The notice requires each institute to ensure that the team members, automobiles, and equipment are always ready in an “on-call” state and can be dispatched quickly. (Epoch Times)

#6: On April 1, Jia County, Henan Province announced the lockdown of villages and community neighborhoods throughout the county after three doctors at People’s Hospital were identified as asymptomatic carriers. (Apple Daily)

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• Infection Count: Coronavirus Is Spreading in Harbin City, Heilong Jiang Province
• Infection Count: Heilongjiang Awards 3,000 Yuan for Reporting People Crossing Border
• Infection Count: Heilongjiang Is Preparing for Epidemic Outbreak
• Infection Count: China Started Reporting Count of Asymptomatic Virus Carriers
• Infection Count: Hubei Was Unlocked, But Beijing Does not Want Anyone from Hubei to Come

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