China must pay the price for unleashing COVID-19

Forꦦ four long years, an Anthony Fauci-led cabal sought to keep COVID’s origins in a Chinese lab hidden from the public. 

With Beijing’s active assistance, they were largely successf🏅ul.

Skeptics like myself, who suggested that Americans shouldn’t buy China’s bat-guano-crazy story about the virus coming from a wet market, were dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” in the United St🌊ates and att🦹acked as “racists” by China. ;

My&nb♌sp;New York Post article exposing the lab was censored on Facebook by Fauci’s good friend Marཧk Zuckerberg.

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Now, of course, the truth haꦕs finally come out  — or, as the Chinese would say, “The water has receded andꦑ the rocks have emerged.”

Even The New York Times, which once mocked Sen. Tom Cotton for wondering if a lab leak was resp🅺onsible for the pandemic, has now capitulated. 

What it once dismissed as a “fringe theory” it now allows ma💝y be scientific fact.

And the scientific facts — as described by Prof. Richard Ebright of Rutge𝔉rs University la⛦st week before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security — are these: There is “zero” evidence that the COVID virus originated in nature, and “multiple lines of secure evidence point to a research origin.”

Now that we’ve piece⛄d together the puzzle of the origin of COVID-19, there has to be accou✨ntability. 

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The good news is that Fauci and his bought-and-paid-for viral acolytes are slowly being ඣexposed for t꧋heir role in funding the dangerous research in the Wuhan lab — then trying to cover it up.

The bad news is that on꧑e very bad actor has to date largely escaped scrutiny for its role in creating and releasing COVID upon the world.  

China is directly responsible for killing up to 20 million people, crashing the global economy and destroying our children’s mental health๊ and education.

Simple justice requires that the leaders of China be called to ac𓂃count for their crimes against humanity, and that China should pay a💧n indemnity of trillions for the damage inflicted.

In an ideal world, the international community would be speaking with one v🃏oice to demand precisely this.  

But the world has been silent. 

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The United Nations has not u💞ttered the slightest cri﷽ticism of China and its leaders, much less condemned their actions.

Don’t look to the International Criminal Court in The Hague tꦇo take action eit𒀰her, even though it exists to try individuals for crimes against humanity.  

The ICC these days is much more inter꧙ested in charging Israel’s Benjam🍬in Netanyahu with “war crimes” than in taking notice of the fact that Xi Jinping’s China is responsible for as many deaths as World War I.  

If it is impossible to bring those responsibleꦐ for ꦏunleashing a pandemic upon the world to justice, can we at least make the country responsible pay damages?

After all, the blow to the global economy over the three years of the pandemic is in the tens of trilꦺlions of dollars.  

Throug🍌h 2023, the US alone — more than half its annual GDP — to the pandemic.

I am under no illusion that we will ever see one penny from China as long as Joe Biden is president, since he regards Beijing as a mere competitor instead of the dangerous advꦇersary that it in fact is. 

During his last meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San F💙rಌancisco, Biden passed over the entire COVID pandemic in silence. 

He neither dem🐻anded an investigation intoꦑ the Wuhan lab, nor insisted on reparations for the havoc its engineered virus has wreaked all over the world. Instead, he simply ignored the issue.

The meta-message of Biden’s continued silence is this: 🅰;Don’🌟t blame China.

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Don’t demꦚand reparations, don’t decouple our economies, don’t upset the geopolitical order in which China marches relentlessly on, des𒈔pite unleashing a devastating virus on the world.

ღBiden is not the only one who is afraid to beard the dragon, of course: We haven’t heard any of our allies demanding reparations either.

About the on♓ly one who has spoken out is the same guy who, early🐠 on, dared to label the virus by its country of origin, proclaiming that it came from “Chy-na.”

Donald Trump is also the only leader who has a plan to recover America’s losses from China’s misdeeds, and the strength of will to carry out that plan.

In lieu of reparations — which Beijing will almost certainly refus🦄e to pay — T꧑rump has pledged to impose steep, across-the-board tariffs.

Tariffs will hurt Chi🤪na far more than they will harm the United States. 

In part due to Trump’s earlier round of tariffs — still in place today — we are less dependen🧔t upon China than we once were.  

The Chinese economy, on the other hand, remains a one-🌃trick pony, based heavily on an export sector that all too often relಌies on forced and even slave labor to keep costs down.

If America leads in this fashion, some of Europe’s up-and-coming populist leaders will surely follow.

None🍰 of this will bring gramma or abuela or nani back, but making China face harsh consequences will force Beijing to recalculate the costs of its reckles🦂s bioweapons program.

And maybe, just maybe, it will help f♈orestall the next pandemic.

Steven W. Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “The Devil and Communist China: From Mao Down to Xi”.