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Comment by azekai | Hacker News Reader

This is the conversation we need to have, on an international level.

When Australia proposed an international investigation into the origins, in direct response, China started cyber attacks, resentencing Australian prisoners to death, and used economic warfare.

This seems like a conversation we can not have, if China has any say in it. And for a natural origin spillover event, it sure wants to have its say...

If your claims are true, then the fact that I (and others) didn't know this is seriously disturbing. I think a lot of people would have doubled down and pushed for alot more pressure and investigation into all of China's dealings across the board, if they had known.

At the very least it's an indictment on our media which should be pointing out these curious coincidences. Instead I think they have other motives.

I don't know about the other two but Australian coal was put under sanction by china in the wake of their call for an investigation. This, ironically, was quite bad for china since it indirectly led to power cuts in some provinces because they couldn't use the lower grade of coal otherwise available.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/australia-finds-new-markets-...

Power cuts later that fall: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58733193

Doubly ironically is that this was probably the single most effective action Morrison took to limit climate change emissions!

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