We have already written that the Chinese attention is now entirely focused on the exploitation for one's own use and consumption of the current health emergency.
A strategy aimed at shaking off the condition of the first greaser to take on that of the main global actor, committed tirelessly, by virtue of the globalization that has allowed him the current rank, to help the world universe with thousands of doctors and tons of medical devices, materials and health equipment.
A shrewd strategy, which is based on regime propaganda and on the media enhancement of the health missions now scattered everywhere and of those that will be, mainly addressed to public opinions in deep emotional difficulty, open to any form of aid.
Even when this comes from states, such as China and Russia, which oppose the speed and confusion of democratic rites opposed to decision-making speed and immediacy of action.
It is not surprising then the latest act of this hybrid action, which this time involves Giuseppe Remuzzi, internationally renowned scientist and director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan.
After publishing an article1 in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet in which he states, among other things, that "although containment measures in China have reduced the new cases by over 90%, this has not happened everywhere, and Italy has been particularly affected”, Remuzzi gave an interview on the American radio NPR2, declaring that in Italy "Since November we started to register cases of very acute and strange pneumonia" proof of the fact that “the virus was circulating in Lombardy before we learned of its explosion in China".
A clear passage, which does not give rise to interpretations, instead summarized by the main newspapers in Beijing in the form "the virus circulated in Lombardy before the explosion in China ".
The Global Times (tabloid of the People's Daily, CCP organ) on his twitter profile3 published this post: "Italy may have had an unexplained strain of pneumonia as early as November and December 2019 with highly suspicious symptoms of Covid-194", citing the NPR as its source.
The immediate distancing of Remuzzi is useless (in Italy with an interview with Il Foglio5), which strongly reiterated that "there is no doubt that the virus is Chinese".
The main Beijing TV stations continued to give wide emphasis to the pseudo-declarations of the Italian scientist, so much so that, according to Corriere della Sera, yesterday on Weibo, the main social platform of the country, over 490 million users had viewed the hashtag # expert- says- that- the- coronavirus- may- have- circulated- in- Italy- in- November.
1https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20) 30627-9 / fulltext
