{"id":12255,"date":"2020-03-19T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12255"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:22:25","slug":"china-boomeranging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/china-boomeranging\/","title":{"rendered":"China Boomeranging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometime&nbsp;in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously given the similar Chinese origins of the prior toxic SARS coronavirus and the resources of a Level 4 virology lab nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the government initially hid all that knowledge from its own people in particular and in general from the world at large. Translated into American terms, that disingenuousness ensured that over 10,000 Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China flew every day on direct flights into the United States (Washington and California especially) from late November to the beginning of February, until the Trump travel ban of January 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this laxity was also known to the Communist apparat in Beijing, which must have been amused when Trump was roundly damned by his liberal critics as a xenophobe and racist for finally daring to stop the influx on January 31 \u2014 the first major leader to enact such a total ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-china-response-will-weaken-it-on-world-stage\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Sometime&nbsp;in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. Soon after, it was also clear to them that a new type of coronavirus was on the loose, a threat they might have taken more seriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3bF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12759,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-69-china-and-the-pandemic\/","url_meta":{"origin":12255,"position":0},"title":"Strategika #69: China and the Pandemic","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Remedies For China\u2019s Role In The Pandemic Please read a new essay by my colleague, John Yoo in Strategika. 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