Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'

Recent 'revelations' that Chinese authorities were buying up PCR tests months before the Wuhan Covid-19 outbreak have renewed interest in the China-lab leak theory and cemented Western suspicion that the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic and covered up its origins.

Meanwhile reports of the Chinese military conducting high numbers of flights in or near Taiwanese airspace has seen war rhetoric ramp up in Western media. Are 'we' on the cusp of WWIII with China? And should 'we' defend Taiwan against the China?

This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall take off the rose-tinted glasses to take a clear-eyed look at the stand-off between the USA and China.

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** Show sources **

Wuhan in early shopping spree for Covid-19 test kits - The Australian - 5 Oct 2021: https://archive.is/fZ5If

China PCR Purchases Spiked in Months Before First Known Covid Cases, Firm Says - Bloomberg - 4 Oct 2021: https://archive.is/mE9Dr

What are they hiding? At the start of Covid many scientists believed it likely leaked from lab - UK Daily Mail - 2 Oct 2021: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10052689/Government-condemned-refusing-release-details-key-email-conversations-Covid-origins.html

Internet 2.0 PCR Purchasing Report Wuhan China: https://internet2-0.com/PCR%20Purchasing%20Report%20Wuhan%20China.pdf

Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Doesn’t Exist. It’s Just A Press Release - The Federalist - 7 Oct 2021: https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/07/joe-bidens-vaccine-mandate-doesnt-exist-its-just-a-press-release/

Revealed: Wuhan and US scientists planned to create new coronaviruses - The (UK) Telegraph - 5 Oct 2021: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/05/wuhan-us-scientists-planned-create-new-coronaviruses-funding/

New York Times Retracts Massive Exaggeration of Children Hospitalized by Covid-19 - National Review - 8 Oct 2021: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/new-york-times-retracts-massive-exaggeration-of-children-hospitalized-by-covid-19/

Covid did NOT originate in infamous bat cave where six Chinese miners were struck down with mystery flu-like illness in 2012, French study claims - UK Daily Mail - 8 Oct 2021: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10072881/Covid-did-NOT-originate-bat-cave-six-Chinese-miners-struck-mystery-flu.html

Ivermectin for COVID-19: Real-time meta-analysis of 64 studies: https://ivmmeta.com/

With Merck charging US government an ‘outrageous’ $700 for $17 Covid pills, MSF official tells RT that world needs cheap generics - RT - 10 Oct 2021: https://www.rt.com/news/537116-merck-expensive-covid-pill-generic-drugs/

US nuclear-powered submarine hits submerged object in South China Sea - The Guardian - 8 Oct 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/08/us-navy-nuclear-submarine-strikes-submerged-object-in-south-china-sea-uss-connecticut

China warns U.S. over reports that American forces are stationed in Taiwan - Washington Post - 8 Oct 2021: https://archive.is/zhrct

Xi stresses peaceful reunification, calls Taiwan secessionists 'serious threat' to national rejuvenation - Global Times - 9 Oct 2021: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1235838.shtml

Mali has evidence French forces train militant groups on its territory, country’s prime minister says - RT - 8 Oct 2021: https://www.rt.com/news/537008-mali-minister-france-training/

ISIS claims responsibility for deadly Afghan mosque attack - CBC - 8 Oct 2021: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/afghanistan-kunduz-mosque-explosion-1.6204477

Iraq’s deadly war - The Economist - 8 Jul 2016: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2016/07/08/iraqs-deadly-war

Lebanon in complete darkness after 2 power stations shut down, blackout will ‘continue for few days’ - RT - 9 Oct 2021: https://www.rt.com/news/537061-lebanon-goes-dark/

Energy crisis: Gas levy gets green light as factories warn of closures - The Times London - 9 Oct 2021: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/energy-crisis-gas-levy-gets-green-light-as-factories-warn-of-closures-bfft8kv2w

Among Europe’s dirtiest: ‘Green’ biomass power plant in Yorkshire burning ‘renewable’ wood emits more CO2 than UK’s coal - RT - 9 Oct 2021: https://www.rt.com/uk/537069-carbon-neutral-biomass-emissions-drax/

Over two feet of rain fell in Italy in only half a day, something not seen in Europe before - CNN - 7 Oct 2021: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/06/weather/italy-flood-oman-climate-change/index.html

Radar rainfall Italy - @ScottDuncanWX: https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1445452342891925505