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You should dip into Daniel's thread from time to time on this Chinese #narratives stuff...
He's been on that for weeks, when e.g. German media like @derspiegel are only now starting to get wise to it: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/coronavirus-ursprung-der-epidemie-peking-erfindet-die-geschichte-neu-a-024b694f-94ed-42d5-8299-6cd02d162911 https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1237746082463002626
He's been on that for weeks, when e.g. German media like @derspiegel are only now starting to get wise to it: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/coronavirus-ursprung-der-epidemie-peking-erfindet-die-geschichte-neu-a-024b694f-94ed-42d5-8299-6cd02d162911 https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1237746082463002626
Here he was already deep into the story by March 4 (but there are much earlier Tweets in this direction, will have to find again):
#COVID19 x #narratives https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1235083179075293186
#COVID19 x #narratives https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1235083179075293186
More examples of this are going to be coming in the days ahead... China will pounce on the perceived US as rudderless ship #narrative x #CoronavirusPandemic https://twitter.com/lucrepogge/status/1238036680818462720
They keep pushing this... it's only the beginning of what will turn into a full-scale propaganda war, & Trump is making it rather easy for them with his own misinfo & general boorishness for now...
/cc @teroterotero @_DanielSinclair @BendlerBlogger https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1238365725074419713
/cc @teroterotero @_DanielSinclair @BendlerBlogger https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1238365725074419713
Read this & the next few tweets, they've gotten pretty close to "Patient 0", & apparently it started as early as mid November 2019! /cc @basche42 @teroterotero @EpsilonTheory @vgr https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1238436327256985602
In case this wasn't clear, the #COVID19 propaganda war between China and the US is ramping... https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1239923246801334283
We'll see how it plays out... EU as a whole probably somewhat less likely, but they could make inroads certainly (Greece? Italy? Other?...) https://twitter.com/teroterotero/status/1240294114106761216
Read the next dozen or so tweets in the thread from here: https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1240693076923838465
Some of this is very much the real thing, China trying to prevent reinfections from within & without...
Some of it also works well as global propaganda theater...?
#narratives /cc @_DanielSinclair https://twitter.com/LukasHenselEcon/status/1240499124987768832
Some of it also works well as global propaganda theater...?
#narratives /cc @_DanielSinclair https://twitter.com/LukasHenselEcon/status/1240499124987768832
Picking up steam: https://twitter.com/viviennechow/status/1241709615512842241?s=21 https://twitter.com/VivienneChow/status/1241709615512842241
Most countries on here are either under-testing or otherwise massaging their case/fatalities numbers for internal/external messaging purposes, but...
There it is, on the "official count" the US & Italy have caught up with & are now driving past China's number:
There it is, on the "official count" the US & Italy have caught up with & are now driving past China's number:
Compare & contrast:
"Chinas government is trying to control the Coronavirus news by all means. A cameraman that had worked for #ZDF [German state TV] has disappeared. Of course repressions against critics have existed for a long time" https://twitter.com/heutejournal/status/1244369786420822016
"Chinas government is trying to control the Coronavirus news by all means. A cameraman that had worked for #ZDF [German state TV] has disappeared. Of course repressions against critics have existed for a long time" https://twitter.com/heutejournal/status/1244369786420822016
Told 'ya this was going to heat up like no tomorrow (see more tweets on mini-thread): https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1245610194572173314
This story is moving very fast nowâŠ
China started incompetently due to the "baroqueness" of its internal system, then acted competently but in authoritarian ways
AND the West acted extremely incompetently from Feb 1 to ~Mar 10. Both things can be true: https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1245815904581103627
China started incompetently due to the "baroqueness" of its internal system, then acted competently but in authoritarian ways
AND the West acted extremely incompetently from Feb 1 to ~Mar 10. Both things can be true: https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1245815904581103627
Food for thought⊠there's likely to be at least a kernel of truth to it, but in the current climateâŠ
consider the source, & don't blithely trust anyone's statements/op-eds at mere face value: https://twitter.com/RonRadosh/status/1245858173635850243
consider the source, & don't blithely trust anyone's statements/op-eds at mere face value: https://twitter.com/RonRadosh/status/1245858173635850243
As one does...
#COVID19Pandemic x #PropagandaWars https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1245917678742560772
#COVID19Pandemic x #PropagandaWars https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1245917678742560772
Note the "Europe, epicenter of the pandemic" lingo here: https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1246770283261779969
Reading the linked piece now, @swardley on the #COVID19 propaganda angles (also next several tweets in this thread): https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1244256149240717313
