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* Gordon G. Chang: China's Fake News: Its 'Superior System' Defeats Coronavirus
* Majid Rafizadeh: Iran: How the Regime Is Trying to Exploit the Coronavirus Crisis


** China's Fake News: Its 'Superior System' Defeats Coronavirus ([link removed])
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by Gordon G. Chang • April 6, 2020 at 5:00 am
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* The virus is hitting China in a second wave. The second wave is claiming victims, including the Party's propaganda narratives. The most dangerous of these narratives is that ruler Xi Jinping, with heaven's mandate, has an obligation to dominate the international system.
* To push America aside and seize global leadership, China got Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, to say that China's response to the coronavirus showed the "superiority of the Chinese system and this experience is worthy of emulation by other countries." Then Beijing set about making a big show of "donating" medical equipment and diagnostic kits, most notably to stricken Europe.
* Xi's initial policies turned a local outbreak into a pandemic, and now they are making even more people sick and forcing China into another pit of disease. China's inaccurate diagnostic kits and substandard protective gear donated around the world along with the new infections will show the truth: communism is incompetent if not downright malign.
* China can lie with statistics, but the virus gets the last word. "Victory" over both COVID-19 and the United States is still far out of sight.

Despite the Chinese regime's claim that it has "defeated" coronavirus, the virus is hitting China in a second wave. President Xi's initial policies turned a local outbreak into a pandemic, and now are forcing China into another pit of disease. China can lie with statistics, but the virus gets the last word. Pictured: A vendor hands food to a customer over a barricade in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on April 6, 2020. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)

China has "defeated" the coronavirus and declared "victory," Communist Party media tells us.

A funny thing happened on the way to victory, however. The virus is hitting China in a second wave. The second wave is claiming victims, including the Party's propaganda narratives. The most dangerous of these narratives is that ruler Xi Jinping, with heaven's mandate, has an obligation to dominate the international system.

China, after reporting no new infections on March 19, said the virus had been contained. Since then, Beijing has been reporting dozens of new cases each day but has maintained that virtually all of them were "imported" -- in other words, the infected were individuals arriving from other countries.

Of the very few in-country transmissions, most, Beijing maintained, were transmissions from the imported cases.

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** Iran: How the Regime Is Trying to Exploit the Coronavirus Crisis ([link removed])
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by Majid Rafizadeh • April 6, 2020 at 4:00 am
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* The international community needs to refrain from handing the Iranian regime any direct financial aid. The four-decade history of the ruling mullahs has shown that any extra revenues obtained by the leadership have not benefited the ordinary people in Iran.
* If the mullahs are seeking financial assistance because they actually desire to help their own people, why did they refuse America's offer of medical assistance? Why did their regime revoke its approval for the emergency team sent by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans frontières), along with the materials needed to build a 50-bed inflatable treatment unit?
* The international community therefore must not directly give the Iranian regime financial aid: it will most likely be funneled into supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its terror and militia groups across the region.
* Instead of handing billions of dollars to the ruling mullahs, financial aid can alternatively be towards trustworthy international medical organizations to combat coronavirus directly on the ground, both in Iran and other countries afflicted.

If Iran's mullahs are seeking financial assistance because they actually desire to help their own people, why did they refuse America's offer of medical assistance? Why did they revoke approval for the emergency team sent by Doctors Without Borders? Pictured: Health authorities check motorists for coronavirus symptoms at a police roadblock on the Tehran to Alborz highway in Iran on March 26, 2020. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

The Iranian leaders have been pushing the international community to provide it with financial assistance to "combat coronavirus" there. The EU has apparently decided to give the mullahs €20 million (approximately $21 million), all while many EU citizens are languishing in Iran's prisons, often on trumped-up charges. The EU taxpayers' money will more likely be misused by the Iranian regime to advance still further the mullahs' malign agendas.

Iran's leaders are also demanding that the US-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) give them financial assistance. They are asking for a $5 billion emergency loan after the IMF declared that it is making $50 billion available to assist countries with the coronavirus crisis.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, on Twitter, ordered the IMF to provide Iran with money:

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