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‘ALLEGED That The United States Had Persuaded Brazil To Deny The Vaccine Approval’
alleged – adjective
Definition of alleged
- accused but not proven or convicted
– an alleged burglar
- asserted to be true or to exist
– an alleged miracle
– an alleged conspiracy
- questionably true or of a specified kind: supposed, so-called
– bought an alleged antique vase
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NYT, Apr 27 – Brazil’s health authority rejected importing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
The official Sputnik V Twitter account pushed back on Monday in a series of tweets, in Portuguese, saying that the vaccine’s developers had shared “all the necessary information and documentation” with Anvisa. In another tweet, it said Anvisa’s decision “was of a political nature” and had “nothing to do with access to information or science,” and alleged that the United States had persuaded Brazil to deny approval.
'Alleged' seems to be the wrong word for this:
WaPo, Mar 16 – U.S. officials pushed Brazil to reject Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, according to HHS report
Buried deep in the dry, 72-page annual report of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lay a startling admission: U.S. health officials under President Donald Trump worked to convince Brazil to reject Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
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Brazil, which has the second-highest coronavirus death toll worldwide, has struggled to obtain adequate vaccine supplies. But the Health Attaché office within HHS’s Office of Global Affairs pushed the country to turn down offers of help from the Russians last year, according to the report.
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Source: Department of Health & Human Services – 2020 Annual Report (pg 48) – bigger—
Meanwhile the European Medical Agency, the drug regulator for the European Union, is intentionally slow walking its approval of Sputnik V by probing the 'ethical standards of the Sputnik vaccine trials'. No other vaccine trial has been questions in this regard.
This while the slow vaccine roll out and continuing lockdowns are costing EU countries billions of Euros per day.
Another pattern of propaganda disguised as journalism:
Xi Jinping tries to reassure China’s private firms of their place in nation’s economic development, by Cissy Zhou
Reading the headline one gets the impression the private sector in China was angry with Xi Jinping, who, desperate to apologize and make amends, made an apology discourse reinforcing the compromise of the CPC with capitalism.
But that’s not the case. The occasion was a routine visit by Xi Jinping to the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, when he inspected a local food-processing centre. This is the quoted part (we aren’t given the full transcript):
“We encourage the development of private businesses. When they encounter difficulties, the [Chinese Communist] Party and the state will support them. And when confusion arises, guidance will be offered, with the hope that they can develop boldly and with confidence”
Xi is probably talking about the many local private enterprises erected with local government funds and incentives that not uncommonly go bust because they usually have excess enthusiasm but lack economic fundamentals – and, even when they do have the fundamentals, most go bust simply because that’s how capitalism works. He probably highlighted the fact that it is not a motive to be ashamed if local private businesses go bust or pass through early difficulties, as it is a normal fact of private business, and that those private businesses that have the fundamentals will have good will and help from the government.
Since the center is probably private and the government has an incentive to develop the region, the simplest explanation to Xi’s speech is that the theme of the visit was the relation between the Government and private businesses. Guangxi also has an economic zone in the Beibu Gulf, so, if this center is there, it would make even more sense for Xi to legitimize the presence of private enterprise there, making the theme all the more all-encompassing.
But that’s not Ms. Zhou’s conclusion. Instead, she makes a quantum leap to the crack downs of the wannabe private monopolies in China:
Xi’s message came at a time when the party has ramped up control over the countries’ millions of private firms, in an effort to exert greater state influence over economic development. But this has triggered anxiety and concerns among many business owners in the private sector.
That’s the fourth paragraph of the article. The entire article has 15 paragraphs. Only the first three talk about Xi’s visit to the food-processing center in Guangxi. She then inexplicably makes a quantum leap to a litany of how the CPC has been unjustly persecuting the Chinese capitalists; it’s essentially a retrospective of the crack downs the CPC has been doing over the Chinese capitalists. Not satisfied with the propaganda, she finishes with a warning to the CPC:
With Washington increasingly restricting Chinese firms’ access to US-made technology on national security grounds, and as the world’s two biggest economies clash over a range of issues such as trade, human rights and Taiwan, Beijing is ramping up efforts to build greater self-reliance in core technologies, including semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
But analysts have said that China’s deep integration in global technology supply chains will make it difficult for the country to develop all of the tech it needs from scratch.
This is a lesson we all should take and have it ingrained in our minds: journalists are not scientists. They don’t make – and aren’t allowed to make – hypotheses. Journalists don’t think: they should merely publish cold hard facts. The true journalistic article would be just the first three tiny paragraphs, which would merely make on small note; the pressure for deadlines, the propaganda warfare against China and the journalist’s greed for a rapid advancement in her career transformed a meaningless side note worthy of the Rodong Sinmun into a giant and stinky piece of fake news.
If Ms. Zhou wants to make a Ph.D. in contemporary History, she should go back to college and try to enter a doctorate program.
Posted by: vk | Apr 27 2021 19:34 utc | 63
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