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Alex, you have previously shared your thoughts on Russia's response to COVID (and its blocking of foreign vaccines) but we have yet to come up with a viable theory to explain China's far more regressive lockdowns which, of course, lasted longer than anywhere else. Some explain it as a deliberate attempt to slow down the economy and others have suggested Xi simply lost the plot. I would like you to consider a third possibility, which is that Xi knew (or suspected) that it was a bioweapon, specifically cultivated to target people's of Chinese ancestory. We know that "gain of function research" has been directed to such a goal, and if so developed, China would surely be top of the list. Maybe 2019/20 was the start of an undeclared hybrid war against China?

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I did some business with China (as well as the rest of world). Firstly, let me say that the Chinese communities in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia were always a pleasure to do business with. First class. Mainland China is different. The State owned enterprises are overtly political and the private enterprises covertly political - sponsored by a key relationship. Both were a bit like doing business with highly political and corrupt entities in the US like the City of Los Angeles or Chicago or the State of California. Best avoided! However, sometimes they could be brilliant (especially when it came to technology) and sometimes they could be dumb (especially when political goals interfered with business). That having been said, i find that 90% of what the MSN been printed about China in the last few years is patently propoganda, designed to shape a globalist agenda.

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