China concealed the early coronavirus outbreak, former MI6 spymaster says

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief John Sawers addresses a live televised gathering of academics, officials and editors in London October 28, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - China concealed crucial information about the novel coronavirus outbreak from the rest of the world and so should answer for its deceit, the former head of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service said on Wednesday.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) which he said had promoted China’s “disinformation” about the virus.

 

John Sawers, the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, from 2009 to 2014, said it would be better to hold China responsible rather than the WHO.

 

“There is deep anger in America at what they see as having been inflicted on us all by China and China is evading a good deal of responsibility for the origin of the virus, for failing to deal with it initially,” Sawers told the BBC.

 

“Intelligence is about acquiring information which has been concealed from you by other states and other actors, there was a brief period in December and January when the Chinese were indeed concealing this from the West.”

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-15

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good.

about time someone is speaking out. 

 

 

And just who is going to take them to task?

 

that's not news, we all know that for a while... good luck trying to get China to admit to any wrong doing

So is he gonna be the next Assange. ????

Another target to discredit for the 50 cent army.

Sanctions?

China ccp don't care.  They will throw back a remark about racism or a conspiracy and then laugh as the west then argue with each other over who is more virtuous or righteous etc.  Then China moves to stage 2 of overt territory invasion.  

Oh...one of those Tinker,Tailor ,Soldier..Spy..folks.

A bit late.

I'd say boycotts, return of manufacturing to home countries, and expropriation of Chinese assets are all on the table. IMO the CCP has badly miscalculated the depth of anger felt towards China.

35 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

that's not news, we all know that for a while... good luck trying to get China to admit to any wrong doing

Don't have to prove it back to China so they admit it as everyone knows. Just all countries need to see the findings and then sanction and isolate them like North Korea. 

The real fact is China needs the world more than the world needs them. Time to kick their butts.

Oh good.

 

So now we can go back to calling it WuFlu again.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

said it would be better to hold China responsible rather than the WHO.

China will be held responsible, they won't recover from this in any of our lifetimes.

 

The WHO were merely aiding and abetting China in their crimes against humanity.

 

Obviously China’s figures are way too small, just Add a zero to their total figures. That would be approximately the correct figures.

You think China cares????????.. They seem to be a shameless people that demand to dominate the world. Its blatantly obvious and has been for ever i guess. This should be a wake up call and everyone should strive to sever ties with china with anyone trying to do buisness with them to be tried for treason... reality is though we will all be speaking chinese and working the rail roads and shining shoes in a couple decades i reckon????

15 minutes ago, unamazedloso said:

You think China cares????????.. They seem to be a shameless people that demand to dominate the world. Its blatantly obvious and has been for ever i guess. This should be a wake up call and everyone should strive to sever ties with china with anyone trying to do buisness with them to be tried for treason... reality is though we will all be speaking chinese and working the rail roads and shining shoes in a couple decades i reckon????

Working on the rail roads... no way would I'll be do that.....

Shining shoes.... don't mind doing that..

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

good.

about time someone is speaking out. 

 

More to come buddy - a lot more.  

Go figure! The CCP are duplicitous human rights abusers and unscrupulous profiteers bent on world domination and preservation of the Party. Who knew?! For those calling for sanctions and boycotts, it is best Western nations withdraw their factories first. Esp. pharma. Bring the jobs home. Especially those that are critical to national security and health of citizens. As long as the CCP has an arsenal of biological agents and control of(according to some reports) up to 80% of pharma manufacturing for some nations, the rest of the world is caught by the short and curlies. 

Edited April 15, 20206 yr by InfinityandBeyond
Addendum

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

good.

about time someone is speaking out.

 

but it doesn't make the WHO less criminal

 

15 minutes ago, InfinityandBeyond said:

For those calling for sanctions and boycotts, it is best Western nations withdraw their factories first. E

I can say let these corps or businesses feel the pain as well. No waiting and strike! 

56 minutes ago, kevin612 said:

Obviously China’s figures are way too small, just Add a zero to their total figures. That would be approximately the correct figures.

Maybe not so too much larger if they already have the vaccine prior to letting the virus get out. But then probably as a couple of billion people needs to be contained area by area.

6 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

I can say let these corps or businesses feel the pain as well. No waiting and strike! 

Nuke em!!!!

3 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

I can say let these corps or businesses feel the pain as well. No waiting and strike! 

I'd agree. But in the short-term where would our citizens get their medicines (many life-saving) until local production can meet local demand? Bring the manufacturing home first. A big blow to the Chinese economy. Then hit them with sanctions once we can reliably support our own citizens. 

who in bed with China and Bill Gates ?

 

anyone read that Obama gave a grant of 3.7 million Usd to Wuhan research biolab for CORONO virus when in office?

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

So is he gonna be the next Assange. ????

We already have Serpentza! ???? 

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

“Intelligence is about acquiring information which has been concealed from you by other states and other actors, there was a brief period in December and January when the Chinese were indeed concealing this from the West.”

And, apparently concealing this from the Chinese people at large as they were preparing to commence their lunar new year travels in-country and out; rendering them completely unaware of the potential perils that lie ahead. 

 

History cannot be kind to those withholding such pertinent information from their own kin, not to mention the global population as a whole.

 

https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9

 

SIT

2 hours ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

And just who is going to take them to task?

 

The one who has the most power is the consumer . If people worldwide boycotted everything Chinese the country would shrink into insignificance  ..if people of world did this the governments  would  follow .. but because of greed and the cheapness of their products this will never happen ...people today are  selfish and short minded  

Edited April 15, 20206 yr by banglay

The West was asleep for this pandemic.  They knew enough when they saw Wuhan building new temporary hospitals. Following advice from the 1/2 inept WHO (keep the borders open, don't wear masks, etc).  CDC can't make a workable test kit in time.  Goes on and on.

36 minutes ago, dutchdude said:

but it doesn't make the WHO less criminal

 

Thanks for reminding Trumpers that the current instructions are to blame the WHO! ????