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Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories are such a poor man’s distraction.

What conspiracy theories are you referring to exactly? Because just based on facts (Their handling of Taiwan, their statements parroting CCP propaganda in January claiming the virus was not transmissible between humans, their condemnation of travel restrictions as xenophobic etc...) they are pretty clearly not on the side of facts or truth. Make of that what you will, but you can't deny the facts.

Your comment that I replied to directly describes a conspiracy and you did not substantiate it with evidence.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy

No it does not? Stating facts is not a conspiracy.

A conspiracy is any agents coming together, even if unknowingly, to a achieve a common objective. This is very directly what you wrote whether or not it is factual, though the writing appears very much an opinion.

I have looked at the fact that the United States formally endorses the Chinese position on the 'One China' policy, and its president repeatedly thanked China for its transparency over Coronavirus and conciuded that the United States is also a mouthpiece of the CCP...

What I remember reading was something like "there is no evidence that the virus can be transmitted by humans" , was it uncovered that there was such evidence and was hidden?

I see that is a lot of China blaming but I seen US politicians and media were also pushing strong into "there is no evidence" and is just the flu.

Anyway this entire "show" just confirms my view on politics, the big trick to use is "Blame the others, we had the power but all the other parties are at fault we have no blame",

Taiwan's response to Covid-19 is based on WHO's advice. It's working quite well.

The WHO is an international organization trying to do its best in a complex international political field. They can't straight away say Taiwan is independent or they will be banned from China and what good would it actually do. The best they can do is avoid answering this kind of question which they unsurprisingly did.

Also, please stop paroting the Republican media nonsense. The WHO did warn of human to human transmission in January [1]. They also didn't say travel restrictions were xenophobic by the way. They said they were not usually the solution to this problem while robust contact tracing, isolation and testing broadly were. A recommendation a lot of governments have apparently found very hard to follow.

You can't deny facts but the facts you are putting forward just don't exist.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/who-cited-huma...

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