You should dip into Daniel& #39;s thread from time to time on this Chinese #narratives stuff...

He& #39;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://www.spiegel.de/politik/a... https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1237746082463002626">https://twitter.com/_DanielSi...
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">https://twitter.com/_DanielSi...
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">https://twitter.com/lucrepogg...
They keep pushing this... it& #39;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">https://twitter.com/Rover829/...
Read this & the next few tweets, they& #39;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">https://twitter.com/_DanielSi...
And yet... https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1238366759616253953">https://twitter.com/Rover829/...
In case this wasn& #39;t clear, the #COVID19 propaganda war between China and the US is ramping... https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1239923246801334283">https://twitter.com/weijia/st...
We& #39;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">https://twitter.com/teroterot...
Read the next dozen or so tweets in the thread from here: https://twitter.com/_DanielSinclair/status/1240693076923838465">https://twitter.com/_DanielSi...
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">https://twitter.com/LukasHens...
Picking up steam: https://twitter.com/viviennechow/status/1241709615512842241?s=21">https://twitter.com/viviennec... https://twitter.com/VivienneChow/status/1241709615512842241">https://twitter.com/VivienneC...
https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1243253097486417920">https://twitter.com/XHNews/st...
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& #39;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">https://twitter.com/heutejour...
And this... https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1244501269202350080">https://twitter.com/XHNews/st...
Told & #39;ya this was going to heat up like no tomorrow (see more tweets on mini-thread): https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1245610194572173314">https://twitter.com/Rover829/...
This story is moving very fast now


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">https://twitter.com/_DanielSi...
Food for thought
 there& #39;s likely to be at least a kernel of truth to it, but in the current climate


consider the source, & don& #39;t blithely trust anyone& #39;s statements/op-eds at mere face value: https://twitter.com/RonRadosh/status/1245858173635850243">https://twitter.com/RonRadosh...
As one does...
#COVID19Pandemic x #PropagandaWars https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1245917678742560772">https://twitter.com/broderick...
Note the "Europe, epicenter of the pandemic" lingo here: https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1246770283261779969">https://twitter.com/XHNews/st...
Reading the linked piece now, @swardley on the #COVID19 propaganda angles (also next several tweets in this thread): https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1244256149240717313">https://twitter.com/swardley/...
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