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A Just Response to Beijing’s COVID-19 Abuses
Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army's Honour Guard Battalion wear protective masks as they stand at attention in front of photo of China's president Xi Jinping at their barracks outside the Forbidden City, near Tiananmen Square, on May 20, 2020 in Beijing, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Despite offers of assistance, polite diplomatic entreaties, and demands for access to data by governments and health authorities across the globe, the international community still knows far too little about the origins of COVID-19. Senior Fellows David Asher and Miles Yu, David Feith, Matthew Zweig, and Thomas DiNanno propose ways to respond to Beijing’s lack of transparency and prepare for future national security threats in a recent policy memo [[link removed]]. The U.S. must establish a 21st century framework for defending against the prospect of another devastating pandemic and a possible future of synthetic biological adventurism and potential biowarfare.
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China’s COVID Wrongdoing Warrants Punishment by a Biden-Led Coalition
A member of the People's Armed Police stands guard outside the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 5, 2021 in Beijing, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) involvement in the spread of coronavirus presents the Biden administration with the opportunity and responsibility to spearhead a fair, effective international response, write Mike Pompeo and Lewis Libby in The Washington Post [[link removed]]. Xi Jinping’s regime has gone entirely unpunished for its military push into the South China Sea, continued genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, attacks on democracy in Hong Kong, and blatant intellectual property theft. Unless President Biden and the leading democracies take action to hold China accountable, the CCP will continue to pursue its dangerous self-interests with no regard for the catastrophic impact they have on the rest of the world.
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The World Needs Answers on Covid’s Origin
Medical staff members working at an exhibition center converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. - The death toll from the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic jumped to 1,868 in China on February 18 after 98 more people died, according to the National Health Commission (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
American leaders must apply pressure to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to discover the true origin of Covid-19 and Beijing’s role in fueling this global crisis, argues David Asher in The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]]. Since the early days of the pandemic, China has interfered with global efforts to understand the origin of the virus by refusing to turn over medical samples, destroying the Wuhan wet market, and playing puppet master to the World Health Organization investigation effort. The U.S. government must reject the CCP’s false narratives and efforts to distract the world from the truth to get to the bottom of the virus’s origin and better prevent future pandemics.
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Biden Says He Wants To Out-Compete China — So Why Attack US Medical Innovation?
A researcher works in a lab that is developing testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation on February 28, 2020 in Nutley, New Jersey (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
While Congress works to pass legislation to invest billions of dollars into American manufacturing in order to out-compete China, the U.S. model of medical innovation is under attack by its own government. Proposals to waive intellectual property rights for vaccines and treatments related to COVID-19 would kill the economic model of innovation that has spurred the unprecedented speed and effectiveness of vaccines developed by major U.S. and British pharmaceutical firms, warns Tom Duesterberg in The Hill [[link removed]]. The waiver would impact one of America’s most successful industries in terms of global technology leadership and market share and could have serious repercussions for other high-technology industries. If the government cares about protecting American innovation, it should oppose this threat to domestic innovation.
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Relocate the Olympics or Condone Genocide
A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he walk in front the logos of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at National Aquatics Centre on April 9, 2021 in Beijing, China. A "Meet in Beijing" ice test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held from April 1-10. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
The world’s failure to respond to the CCP’s ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people in China eerily recalls the failed reaction to Adolf Hitler’s atrocities in the 1930s and 10402, warns Nury Turkel in Foreign Policy [[link removed]]. The International Olympic Committee is going forward with plans to allow China to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, just as it allowed Nazi Germany to host the Summer games in 1936. The international community must stop ignoring the atrocities being committed by the CCP and demand that the IOC reschedule the games or find a suitable alternative location. Failure to do so is tantamount to condoning the horrific, genocidal regime.
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Though one of America’s most important allies, Turkey poses more of a problem to the U.S. than any other member of NATO, writes Walter Russell Mead in his weekly column for The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]]. Under the leadership of populist Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country is moving further from democratic and European values, buying weapons from Russia in outright defiance of American sanctions, and engages in a plethora of military interventions across the Middle East. The Turkey of today is nothing like the secular, Westernizing, staunchly anti-Soviet Turkey of the Cold War years and American foreign policy must adjust accordingly.
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