BILD editor-in-chief responds to the Chinese president
„You are endangering the world“
Artikel
von:
Julian Reichelt
veröffentlicht am
17.04.2020 - 14:27 Uhr
Dear President Xi Jinping
Your
embassy in Berlin has addressed me in an open letter because we asked in
our newspaper BILD whether China should pay for the massive economic
damage the corona virus is inflicting worldwide.
Let me respond:
1. You rule by surveillance. You wouldn't be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country.
You
shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule,
but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring
your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the
world.
2. Surveillance is a denial of freedom. And a nation that is not free, is not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything . This is why
you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property
theft.
China enriches itself with the inventions of others,
instead of inventing on its own. The reason China does not innovate and
invent is that you don't let the young people in your country think
freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but
which has nevertheless gone around the world) is Corona.
3. You, your government and your scientists
had to know long ago that Corona is highly infectious, but you left the
world in the dark about it.Your top experts didn't respond when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan.
You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace.
4.
The "Washington Post" reports that your laboratories in Wuhan have been
researching corona viruses in bats, butwithout maintaining the highest
safety standards.Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners?
Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?
5. In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You
have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona,
China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a
surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease.
That is your political legacy.
Your embassy tells me that I am not living up to the "traditional friendship of our peoples.”
I suppose you consider it a great "friendship" when you now generously
send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship, I would call it
imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse.
You plan to
strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will not
succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later.