by Frank Holmes, reporter
During the time of global pandemics, the whole world is pulling together to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
The whole world, that is, except one country: China.
China didn’t just lie to the world about the coronavirus. First, it brought the virus into Western countries.
Then, the Communist superpower bought up all the masks and medical equipment we needed to protect ourselves and shipped them back to China.
And to add insult to injury, Beijing sold defective coronavirus-fighting equipment back to us.
It’s an international crime, but the media still celebrates China’s murderous leaders as heroes.
China’s wrongdoing goes way beyond covering up the spread and deadly nature of the virus.
China likely brought COVID-19 to foreign countries like Italy, which has had one of the worst death tolls in the world.
An analyst traces it all back to one thing: Italian luxury goods.
For years, Italian clothes and handbags have been the height of fashion. But they were so expensive, not many people could own them.
Then the Chinese came.
China began taking over factories and shipping in less expensive Chinese workers to work in them. The legacy media wrote about all about it for more than a decade, including The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Reuters, and The Associated Press.
When the first pair of coronavirus cases in Italy happened in late January, it came from two Chinese tourists to Rome. The virus spread like wildfire, especially in northern Italy, just a few weeks later.
“Why late February?” asked Robert Stacy McCain at Spectator.org.
“Well, it is customary for Chinese to travel home for Lunar New Year celebrations, which fell on Jan. 24 this year,” he wrote. “And the incubation period for coronavirus is about two weeks.”
“How many of the Chinese workers in northern Italy traveled to China in late January and returned to Italy — without symptoms but already infected with COVID-19 — in early February?” he asked.
We have no idea how much the coronavirus spread this way. China has lied repeatedly about the number of infections — they even tried to claim they haven’t had any new cases since U.S. reporters were forced out of the country.
But we know that the number of Chinese traveling around the globe has exploded, from 20 million to 150 million in 15 years. That includes 360,000 Chinese students in the U.S. — many of them are agents who work on orders from the mainland.
One of those orders is the reason facemasks and protective gloves have been flying off the shelves and shelves with hand sanitizer have been picked clean.
When coronavirus broke out, Beijing ordered its people to buy up as many medical supplies in foreign countries as possible… and ship them back home!
China is actively draining the West of the supplies it needs to protect itself.
Just look at one of America’s greatest allies in the Pacific: Australia.
The land down under welcomed investment from a real estate firm with the misleading name The Greenland Group—which is actually backed by the Chinese government.
The high rollers deal in some of the most lucrative spots in Sydney and Melbourne.
As soon as the pandemic broke out, China sent out its marching orders: Shift gears from real estate to medical equipment.
And they cleared the shelves.
The group bought three million surgical masks, 700,000 Haz-Mat suits, half-a-million gloves, and whole palettes of hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes and shipped them all to China.
One of the company’s managers even bragged on Facebook, “Greenland Australia is taking action. The second batch of non-contact forehead thermometers will soon take off to China!”
China “proactively drained Australian supplies of anti-coronavirus equipment,” local media reported.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported the details, but the story hasn’t gotten much traction outside Australia.
But China isn’t just targeting Australia. The CCP is doing it inside American allies across the globe.
Intelligence agents said that the “Chinese Embassy in Prague organized massive purchases of medical material.”
BREAKING NEWS:
Czech counterintelligence @biscz told Czech government in early March:
In January & February, Chinese Embassy in Prague organized massive purchases of medial material. Chinese compariots were buying it everywhere and sending to China.https://t.co/au05vjhaor
— Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳 (@_JakubJanda) March 24, 2020
In England, “overseas Chinese have used social media to launch crowdfunding campaigns to send medical supplies to Wuhan,” the BBC revealed.
But China doesn’t need everything its people send—because some of the goods are too shoddy.
Guess what China does with its defective masks? It sends them back to the West—at a profit!
About half of the 1.3 million facemasks that China sold to the Netherlands had to be recalled because they were so poor-quality that they didn’t protect people.
People who are paying attention say this is an act of deliberate sabotage.
Of course, the liberal media has a different take. It’s turned the Chinese Communists into heroes.
Reuters said “there’s no better present” than the masks China’s shipping to the West.
But they don’t say anything about the masks the Chinese scooped up and shipped back home.
And they don’t mention the Americans and Westerners who will die because of it.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”