BILD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (JULIAN REICHELT) RESPONDS TO THE CHINESE PRESIDENT |"You are endangering the world“
Dear President Xi Jinping
Your
embassy in Berlin has addressed me in an open letter because we asked
in our newspaper BILD whether China should pay for the massive economic
damage the corona virus is inflicting worldwide.
Let me respond:
1.
You rule by surveillance. You wouldn't be president without
surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to
monitor the diseased wet markets in your country.
You shut down
every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the
stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people,
you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world.
2.
Surveillance is a denial of freedom. And a nation that is not free, is
not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything .
This is why you have made your country the world champion in
intellectual property theft.
China enriches itself with the
inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own. The reason China
does not innovate and invent is that you don't let the young people in
your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody
wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is
Corona.
3. You, your government and your scientists had to know
long ago that Corona is highly infectious, but you left the world in the
dark about it. Your top experts didn't respond when Western researchers
asked to know what was going on in Wuhan.
You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace.
4.
The "Washington Post" reports that your laboratories in Wuhan have been
researching corona viruses in bats, but without maintaining the
highest safety standards.
Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners?
5.
In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is
crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China.
Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state.
Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease.
That is your political legacy.
Your
embassy tells me that I am not living up to the "traditional friendship
of our peoples.” I suppose you consider it a great "friendship" when
you now generously send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship, I
would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse.
You
plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will
not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later.
Yours sincerel,y
Julian Reichelt
