Only I couldn’t find any. So instead, I will treat you to some lowlights—lies, evasions, boilerplate and insults to your intelligence.
Start with Xi Jinping, president of the People’s Republic of China, who pledged “to fight COVID-19 in solidarity” and “always put people and their lives first and care about the life value and dignity of every individual.”
Those nodding and/or applauding must know that Xi has blocked serious investigations into the origin and spread of the virus because such inquiries would build on the abundant evidence that Beijing, through incompetence or worse, let loose the global pandemic that has killed millions of people and devastated economies around the globe.
Xi’s propagandists have attempted to convince the credulous that the altered virus came from somewhere else—like, hey, maybe America! Or Australia! Nevertheless, Xi wants you to know he “stands firmly opposed to political maneuvering in whatever form.”
Let’s move on to Sergey Lavrov, foreign minister of Russia, which has sliced territory from neighboring Georgia and Ukraine while helping Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad slaughter hundreds of thousands of his subjects. He assured us that “threats and challenges can be countered effectively only through concerted efforts in strict compliance with the universally recognized norms of the international law, first and foremost, the goals and principles of the U.N. Charter.”
It’s widely believed that the Kremlin has used chemical weapons to eliminate critics. Lavrov’s solution: “We are awaiting a response to the Russian initiative to elaborate a Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Chemical and Biological Terrorism.” READ MORE
