Spot on. Apologist for the dictatorial communist government. The WHO (Marxist) director-general called it COVID-19 so it does not correctly identify the source of the Wuhan virus. They lied about the transmissibility of the virus and hoarded medical protection equipment, even importing from other countries before the world knew of the real severity of the Wuhan virus.

A February study on the origins of the virus from the South China University of Technology in Guangdong province of China  concluded: “In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.” The Chinese government forced them to delete their research paper.

Dr Luc Montagnier the man who discovered the HIV virus back in 1983 disagrees and is saying that the virus was man made.

Chinese labs have accidentally leaked the SARS virus four times in the past. A leak form the Wuhan Institute of Virology is not surprising.

The real pandemic is the TDS here. The Chinese CCP covered up the leak of the Wuhan virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Tedros, the first director of the WHO that was not a medical doctor and who was a senior member of a terrorist organization (Tigray People's Liberation Front) in Ethiopia, was a propaganda puppet for the CCP.

I didn't even make it that far. After reading this:
"CNN’s and MSNBC’s hatred of the Donald is as palpable as it is justified"
That's why I don't watch MSM, they are the propaganda arm of the DNC. They are supposed to publish the truth, good or bad. Instead they have been what Pravda was to the Soviet Union. Lying 24/7 on Russiagate, Ukrainegate, Impeachment and the hundreds of lies promoted by the DNC. The author is as infected with TDS as is the media he is covering.

Exactly right! Wolf is a Marxist economist who believes it's not kosher if it doesn't follow Marxist ideology. I'm sure that he just loves the cultural Marxist wave drowning America.

Well it goes both ways. The deranged Democrats have politicized everything from the intelligence community, the impeachment process and now the pandemic. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer banned doctors from using hydroxychloroquine threatening “administrative action” against doctors who prescribed it. Then four days later she was begging for a large supply of the drug from the federal government. If Trump is for it, the democrats are against it.

"So you are blaming China, not the USA which had NO preparation and ignored all the info China provided???"

No, I am not blaming China, as your thoughtless knee-jerk comments claim. It's the neoliberal U.S. greedy corporations and their puppets in the federal government that shipped jobs to China. It was a problem that was created by the U.S. and revealed by the crisis.

"ignored all the information China provided"????? I assume you also think that it is racist to call it the Chinese coronavirus or the Wuhan Virus. Wokeness seems to also be very contagious and a intellectually debilitating disease. China has been lying about the virus from the very beginning and continues to this very day supported by the Marxist-Lenist Tedros at the WHO that was a senior executive of the Tigray People's Liberation Front . The CCP arrested anyone telling the truth about the outbreak in Wuhan on social media including the doctor who tried to warn doctors and the public, he died from the virus.

I've been traveling to China since 1982 and have found the Chinese people, to be industrious, likable and friendly. The government, hwr, that Pepe and you seem to love so much is authoritarian, repressive and not to be trusted.

I think Pepe has gone native on all things Chinese. In the past I enjoyed his articles but now I think he seems to be too biased. He brags about the silk road and that China is supplying them with medical supplies that the countries should be making them selves. A high % of the test kits do not work and the extended supply chains are proving to be disastrous in a crisis.

He praises China for selling medical goods to countries which are infected with the virus that started in China and which was covered up for two months by the Chinese.

"Covid-19 is more or less tamed and the Chinese economy fully recovered" Really Pepe? There are reports of more cases in Wuhan and elsewhere in China while China is claiming no new cases. The Chinese government is lying and Pepe is acting like a useful idiot.

Yes, and were calling him a racist for stopping all flights from China. Pelosi was also fanning the SJW flames of racism and in February said: “We do want to say to people, come to Chinatown, here we are…come join us,”

The DEMOCRAT Health Commissioner, Dr. Barbot, of NY said in January: “Local risk is low and our preparedness is high. Message to New Yorkers is go about your daily lives. No indication that casual contact or going through the subway is in any way shape or form a risk factor.””

The Democrats have been infected with another viral disease for over 3 years, TDS and, as they have done with every issue, are politicizing the coronavirus instead of cooperating and working together to stop it. Instead of focusing on stopping the disease they tried to cram as much pork into the legislation to financially help Americans and companies, while dementia Joe is hiding out in his basement.

I’m a big fan of Escobar and always look forward to his reporting. Unfortunately, he seems to have gone native when it comes to reporting on China and the Wuhan virus.

It certainly plausible that the U.S. could be responsible for the creation of the coronavirus. Its military and intelligence agencies have a long history of covert and overt criminal acts. However, it is also possible that it was China’s negligence that allowed the virus to leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology that has been studying the coronavirus for years or through their horrible hygiene at the Wuhan wet market. Chinese labs have accidentally allowed leaks of the SARS virus four times in the past and the CCP sent in a senior general specializing in biological weapons to take over the Wuhan lab operations shortly after the coronavirus outbreak. Escobar ignores these possibilities because he’s already picked a side and is thoroughly biased in his reporting. Not what I would expect from a good journalist. He’s become Xi’s Fox News.

“Once Beijing identified coronavirus as a bio-weapon attack the “people’s war” was launched with the full force of the state."

Escobar is becoming a CCP stenographer and ignores the fact that China tried to suppress all information on the outbreak for the first two months and is known for their lack of transparency. They arrested, threatened and ghosted any citizen-journalist revealing the truth including Dr. Li who tried to reveal the truth and who died from the virus. Like their questionable growth projections, their coronavirus data cannot be trusted because they will do and say anything, including blaming the U.S., to maintain China’s “social order” a euphemism for their authoritarian communist party total control.