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发帖数: 331 | 1 https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/how-to-make-china-pay/
注意作者John Yoo是小布什政府里给关塔那摩虐囚合法性背书的那位。
The WHO sells out to China, but we don’t have to.
One of the big questions facing the international community today is how to
hold China legally and politically accountable for all its dishonesty and
harm to people around the world. According to reports, U.S. intelligence
agencies have confirmed to the White House that China has deliberately
understated the number of its people who have contracted and died from the
coronavirus epidemic. Such deceit follows Beijing’s recklessness in
suppressing news of the origins, rapid spread, and lethality of COVID-19 in
December and January. Chinese officials punished doctors who tried to warn
of the outbreak in Wuhan, slowed identification and research on the virus,
and allowed thousands to leave the region for the rest of the world.
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If China were an individual, a company, or a law-abiding nation, it would be
required to provide compensation for the harm it has inflicted globally.
The United States alone may well suffer 200,000 or more deaths, billions in
health-care costs, trillions in lost economic activity, and trillions more
in new government spending. China’s failures render it legally liable under
international law, but the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the crisis of
ineffectiveness and corruption of international institutions. Instead of
focusing on international law, the U.S. should thus protect its national
interests by opting for the self-help mechanism.
International institutions provide no meaningful way to force China to
remedy the harm it has caused. The United Nations Security Council,
allegedly the supreme lawmaking and executive body in international law,
cannot hold China to account because China and Russia exercise their
permanent right to veto any Security Council resolution. China has rendered
the U.N. impotent, even though U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has
declared the COVID-19 pandemic the world’s most challenging crisis since
World War II, as it has become a threat to international peace and security
by shutting down swaths of the global economy and killing thousands, if not
millions.
The U.S. and its allies also could try to sue China before an international
tribunal, such as the International Court of Justice, although countries
have never been sued for their violation of infectious-disease treaties. But
even if a court were to judge China responsible for the injury caused by
its handling of COVID-19, China would just ignore any decision. When the
Permanent Court of Arbitration found that China’s construction of
artificial islands in the South China Sea violated international law,
Beijing simply ignored the ruling. A Chinese official declared that the
judgment was “nothing more than a piece of paper.” We should expect
nothing different from China in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has only a weak, non-binding dispute-
resolution mechanism, but China’s failure to promptly report the
coronavirus outbreak to the organization violated the International Health
Regulations, which require states to notify the WHO of potential public-
health emergencies “of international concern.”
In fact, China has used its financial war chest to manipulate the WHO. China
’s annual funding of the organization, which relies on voluntary donations,
has increased to $86 million since 2014 (a rise of 52 percent). The WHO’s
director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has praised China’s
leadership for its “openness to share information” with the international
community and stated that China “has bought the world time” regarding the
coronavirus. In January, the WHO parroted China’s line that there was no “
clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus.”
The WHO has also followed the Chinese line on Taiwan, excluding it from
membership and barring it from COVID-19 response meetings. While some
scholars have suggested that a larger budget would make the WHO more
effective, the Trump administration has rightly halved America’s
contribution. Not only has the WHO become a Chinese client, but it also
spends $200 million a year on luxury travel. The U.S. should investigate the
WHO and its director general and expose their ties with China.
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Rather than rely on corrupt, conflicted international institutions such as
the WHO, the United States and its allies should engage in self-help. To
protect against the next virus outbreak, the U.S. should create a new
monitoring mechanism that can detect global health threats early, spread
information about them reliably, and coordinate national efforts to develop
a response. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspection regime for
illicit nuclear weapons could provide a model. The U.S. and other wealthy
nations could establish a similar inspection regime and provide financial
assistance to developing nations that agree to participate. “Trust but
verify” could become the watchword not just for Ronald Reagan’s nuclear-
reduction treaties with the Soviets, but for a truly effective global health
system.
The U.S. should also punish China for its coronavirus failings as an
incentive for Beijing to mend its ways. Washington could persuade leading
nations to join it in excluding Chinese scholars and students from
scientific research centers and universities. China has used its Thousand
Talents program to recruit scientists to help steal sensitive technology
from American laboratories. Confucius Institutes have spread propaganda
while masquerading as Chinese cultural centers. Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas)
and Representative Francis Rooney (R., Fla.) have introduced the Stop
Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act to help colleges protect against
threats by foreign actors.
According to China experts, President Xi Jinping depends on a humming
economy and appeals to nationalism for his political legitimacy. The U.S.
and its allies could strike at the heart of the Chinese Communist Party’s (
CCP) claim to a mandate from heaven by further ratcheting up the pressure on
Beijing to adopt a more cooperative, transparent stance on public health by
imposing economic sanctions and inflicting serious economic harm on China.
The Trump administration could enhance its efforts to exclude China from
buying and selling advanced technologies, such as microchips, artificial
intelligence, or biotechnology. It took an important step in that direction
this week by implementing new measures on chip exports to Huawei. In
addition, the U.S. should use targeted sanctions on specific CCP leaders and
their supporters by freezing their assets and prohibiting their travel. The
administration needs to impose pain on CCP supporters so that they will
want to change policy to alleviate their own economic losses.
In addition to halting any further trade cooperation with Beijing, the
administration could also seize the assets of Chinese state-owned companies.
Under its Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing reportedly has loaned billions
to developing nations in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, and then
taken over their strategic ports and facilities once the debts fall due.
The U.S. could turn this strategy on its head by supporting the
expropriation of these assets by legal process and the cancellation of these
debts as compensation for coronavirus losses.
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Seizing Chinese property would allow the United States to finally use
international law to its advantage. Let China try to go to court and claim
that the U.S., its allies, and the developing world have violated
international rules. Let Beijing try to show that these nations have no
right to compensation for its coverup of the coronavirus outbreak. Let the
Chinese Communist Party try to claim, outside its own borders, just as it
does within them, that it can deny common sense and blame the very victims
of its wrongdoing for the worst public-health catastrophe in a century.
John Yoo is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of
California at Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise
Institute, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford
University. Ivana Stradner is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute. | S**********p
发帖数: 331 | 2 2008年，一名在反恐战争期间获刑的美国公民José Padilla起诉柳约翰失职导致其受
到政府不公正待遇。[19]美国北加州区法院判决柳约翰一审败诉[20]，但其后第九巡回
法院撤销原判，判决柳约翰无过失。[21]曾任布什政府国务卿的鲍威尔在此案宣判后表
示其认为柳约翰的作为违反了职业道德与法律。[22]2009年，一名西班牙法官指示西班
牙检查部门调查柳约翰等六名布什政府高官（媒体称其为“布什六人帮”）任期内可能
犯下的战争与反人类罪，但是西班牙检方拒绝提出起诉。[23][24] | n*****9
发帖数: 654 | 3 米弟第一个关闭中国入境，第一个停飞的国家，不知道米冠传染和死人？
：) | s*****1
发帖数: 1 | 4 读了一遍毫无新意
他应该是读the epoch times找的灵感 | x*******6
发帖数: 994 | 5 不知道CIA是如何调查的？
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【在 S**********p 的大作中提到】
: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/how-to-make-china-pay/
: 注意作者John Yoo是小布什政府里给关塔那摩虐囚合法性背书的那位。
: The WHO sells out to China, but we don’t have to.
: One of the big questions facing the international community today is how to
: hold China legally and politically accountable for all its dishonesty and
: harm to people around the world. According to reports, U.S. intelligence
: agencies have confirmed to the White House that China has deliberately
: understated the number of its people who have contracted and died from the
: coronavirus epidemic. Such deceit follows Beijing’s recklessness in
: suppressing news of the origins, rapid spread, and lethality of COVID-19 in
| W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 6 现在连病毒到底从哪里发源的都没搞清楚
那么多欧美国家疫情初始不作为，放任自流，传导错误信息，比如口罩无用论，造成疫
情失控，白白祸害多少无辜生命？这些帐怎么算啊？ | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 7 跟没说差不多，好像唯一的手段就是拒收土鳖留学生和访学，LOL | W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 8 美花实验室老板要哭死
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 跟没说差不多，好像唯一的手段就是拒收土鳖留学生和访学，LOL
| S**********p
发帖数: 331 | 9 Leroy
2天前
File this entire article under:
"Things that will never happen"
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 跟没说差不多，好像唯一的手段就是拒收土鳖留学生和访学，LOL
| e*******c
发帖数: 1479 | | h*********n
发帖数: 11319 | 11 评论里的傻逼美国人真不少
这帮白皮什么时候才能认清自己的位置？
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【在 S**********p 的大作中提到】
: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/how-to-make-china-pay/
: 注意作者John Yoo是小布什政府里给关塔那摩虐囚合法性背书的那位。
: The WHO sells out to China, but we don’t have to.
: One of the big questions facing the international community today is how to
: hold China legally and politically accountable for all its dishonesty and
: harm to people around the world. According to reports, U.S. intelligence
: agencies have confirmed to the White House that China has deliberately
: understated the number of its people who have contracted and died from the
: coronavirus epidemic. Such deceit follows Beijing’s recklessness in
: suppressing news of the origins, rapid spread, and lethality of COVID-19 in
| q****5
发帖数: 1660 | 12 if they could, they would. | a******9
发帖数: 20431 | 13 我帝现在决策层到参谋全都是这帮低智商律师 悲哀 | T**********n
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