By Modesto P. Sa-onoy
After Tedros declared a pandemic, the world panicked and governments imposed quarantines, lockdowns and the wearing of masks that practically forced the world to stand still and businesses collapsing with the consequent massive lay-offs.
However, “Although most airlines quickly suspended their flights,” Depuydt said “Ethiopian Airlines is one of the few that maintained connections with China throughout the crisis as if there was no pandemic. She cited the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation’s reported phone call between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and Xi Jinping confirming once again the close ties between the two countries.
“This phone call as well as the two letters of sympathies from the Prime Minister attest to the profound friendship and mutual support between China and Ethiopia as comprehensive strategic cooperative partners. Ethiopia has followed WHO recommendations and kept its normal ties and exchanges with China. China appreciates such expression of confidence.”
Control over Africa’s health and economy, according to Depuydt “is obviously an important stake in the management of the coronavirus epidemic. Just a few days ago, the Trump administration warned over Chinese spying in the future African Center for Disease Control facility, saying it would stop funding if Beijing goes on with building its headquarter in Ethiopia.”
The Financial Times quoted an official of the U.S. administration, saying, “It’s a threat to Africa. Africa has vast amounts of genomic data and the Chinese want to build the CDC to eventually steal the data from all the other centres,” referring to five regional Africa CDC hubs. “They handle high-risk viruses, health crises, research, and data collection.”
But the Chinese already went ahead, according to Depuydt, and put $200m in the construction of the ‘bugged’ African Union’s Conference Center which currently houses the African CDC secretariat. It seems China and the U.S. had found a cooperation agreement on the issue under the Obama administration, but it could not last for long under the Trump presidency.
In case Joe Biden and the Democrats take over the White House, the Chinese and the US under the Democrats will resume their cooperation in this project.
Tedros had been overprotective of the Chinese. According to Depuydt, “At the beginning of the epidemic, Ghebreyesus called on the Italians “not to stigmatize the Chinese” by insisting that the time was “not for judgment, but for solidarity.”
The valuable recommendations of the WHO director thus barred the Italian government from confining people returning from China and thus helped spread the China-origin virus.
Worse still, Depuydt claim, the Mayor of the city of Florence, which has an important number of Chinese immigrants, was encouraged to launch a national campaign inviting his fellow citizens to “hug a Chinese in the street!“
Such complacency towards China, Depuydt said, is also due to the fact that last year the Salvini government was the first G7 country to sign an economic partnership with China in the Belt and Road project that would give them direct access to the Mediterranean.
After Salvini’s party left the government, the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis probably urged the new majority to reassess its ties with Beijing.
Italy then suddenly became the first Western government to stop its flights from China. But the country might pay the price of its infidelity as it currently stands very isolated, Depuydt asserts.
“European partners refused to come to the rescue and China is trying to maintain its hold by sending medical help and experts to solve the crisis, planning to help reconstruction after the country collapses.”
In the meantime, the WHO which has its European headquarters in Venice, one of the main affected areas, has delegated one of its main experts to take control of the pandemic response.
Depuydt concludes “it is now obvious that the WHO and its leaders have a pandemic response agenda that has more to do with global government and world leadership than health” and Bill Gates seems to be leading the initiative to hasten the production of vaccines and pushing his global governance agenda with his army of devoted health experts, such as the Coronavirus Response Task Force, Fauci and Birx, long-time close partners of the Global Fund AIDS campaign.
She says the unmasked WHO chairman is serving Africa on a silver plate to the new leaders of a corporate, communist-inspired, global government.
Continued November 23.
