Chinese State Media Launch 'America Bashing'... US Diagnosed with 'China Anxiety Disorder'

Xinhua News Agency lists 7 US atrocities including civilian massacres, human rights violations, and truth manipulation, condemning them
Global Times reports suspected US DDoS attack on Cheongwon server... Suspects US behind Wuhan Phase 2 investigation in China

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Jo Young-shin] Chinese state-run media have launched a campaign to "attack the United States," claiming that the U.S. alliance system is fueling the Cold War. This appears to be a move to sway public opinion within China after the U.S. Congress once again raised the theory that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China. China also suspects that the World Health Organization's (WHO) second-phase investigation into the Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak was influenced by U.S. power.

On the 4th, the state-run Xinhua News Agency published an article titled "The Seven Sins Committed by the U.S. Alliance," listing seven major atrocities committed by the United States while participating in wars worldwide since World War II. Xinhua named violence as the foremost sin among the seven committed by the U.S. alliance, citing the Korean War, Vietnam War, Kosovo War, Afghanistan War, and Iraq War.

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Regarding the Korean War, Xinhua reported that in 1950, the United States formed a coalition of more than 12 countries to intervene in the civil war on the Korean Peninsula, resulting in over 3 million civilian deaths. It also claimed that the U.S. military secretly conducted biological warfare, causing massive harm to civilians. In the Vietnam War, the use of Agent Orange led to more than 400,000 deaths and over 2 million Vietnamese people suffering from cancer and various other diseases. Xinhua added that in the Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars, despite international opposition, the U.S. formed allied forces, resulting in civilian casualties.

Xinhua asserted that the United States, under the pretext of anti-terrorism, interferes in the internal affairs of other countries and violently overthrows legitimate governments of sovereign states. It also claimed that the U.S. profited by selling weapons to its allies during these wars. The outlet condemned the U.S. for instigating wars to acquire various resources such as oil. Furthermore, it accused the U.S. of easily infringing on other countries' assets by leveraging the dominance of the U.S. dollar, with allied countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, and France sharing the benefits alongside the U.S.

Xinhua also criticized the United States for "shielding its allies" to protect their interests, labeling this as another U.S. wrongdoing. Japan was cited as a representative country. The U.S. is accused of tacitly allowing Japan to discharge radioactive contaminated water into the ocean despite international opposition, implicitly endorsing revisions to Japan's pacifist constitution, and supporting Japan by benchmarking the biological and chemical weapons data of Japan's Unit 731.

Furthermore, Xinhua emphasized that the United States habitually fabricates lies to maximize its own interests, citing the COVID-19 origin in China, China's militarization of the South China Sea, and the mass genocide and human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as representative examples of U.S. false political propaganda. Xinhua had published similar articles last year amid escalating U.S.-China tensions.

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The People's Daily also joined in criticizing the United States. In an editorial-style article on the same day, the People's Daily reported that despite the global risk of infectious diseases due to virus variants, the U.S. is attempting to shift the blame onto China. It claimed that the U.S. has dispatched high-ranking officials to neighboring countries to falsely attribute the virus issue to China, which is an attempt to deflect public anxiety caused by the U.S.'s failure in epidemic control onto China. This, the article argued, is aimed at demonizing China to achieve political objectives and is evidence that the U.S. government is suffering from "China anxiety disorder."

The Global Times reported that more than 100 countries worldwide have sent a statement to the WHO opposing the politicization of virus origin tracing. The outlet urged the WHO to conduct the virus origin investigation in an objective and fair manner, emphasizing that humanity faces a serious threat from the virus attack.

The Global Times also claimed that 25 million Chinese people have signed a petition demanding an investigation into the U.S. military's Fort Detrick laboratory in Maryland, asserting that the Fort Detrick lab investigation should be conducted concurrently.

Zheng Guang, former chief researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said, "The United States fears a thorough investigation of the Fort Detrick laboratory, just as the WHO conducted in the Wuhan laboratory," adding, "The more they try to hide something, the deeper we must dig."

Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, stated, "The investigation into the origin of the epidemic is a scientific issue, not a political one," and warned, "The origin investigation must not degenerate into a witch hunt."

Meanwhile, the Global Times reported that since the 17th of last month, it has been receiving petitions through China's social networking services Weibo and WeChat, and recently, the petition servers have been subjected to cyberattacks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which are suspected to originate from the United States.