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"...The drugs we need to fight disease are produced overseas, you ask? As I noted here, 100 percent of all active pharmaceutical ingredients consumed in the United States are made in either communist China or India. Imagine the American jobs if those products were made in the United States.

The Church of Free Trade will warn us that those drugs would cost more if they were made in the United States. Right about now, I’d wager most Americans wouldn’t care.

Let’s return again to the myth shoved at us for the last 30 years since the bloodbath at Tiananmen. Recall, the story goes, if China and the United States become tight partners through trade, eventually the blessings of capitalism will soften the communist tendencies of the regime.

Economic vibrancy will reform the country. Democratic institutions will slowly erode the iron grip of the communist party. Unicorns will play with wolves.

That’s the sort of thing we heard for 30 years. Now we are paying a price.

In reality, our technology was stolen by patent pirates as part of a deliberate, state-sponsored economic espionage program. A growing Chinese military presence in the Western Pacific threatens American strategic dominance. The Chinese are making leaps in submarine technology and nuclear missile capability that threaten American cities. That threat didn't exist 30 years ago.

Instead of American trade policies softening the regime, the Chinese communists have grown bold.

This brings us to the question of what’s on the menu?

Some have been aware of the threat of a novel coronavirus for over a decade. The cause? A crazy Chinese diet.

“How crazy,” you ask?

Before you see the menu, I must ask if we are allowed to talk about what is for sale at Chinese wet markets. Not at some publications, because it is "racist."

Scientists, thank Heaven, still live in the world of facts.

A paper published in 2007 in Clinical Microbiology Review said the crazy meats the Chinese love were a global health threat.

The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories and therefore the need for preparedness should not be ignored.
What sorts of animals? I won’t post the videos here, but you can Google “three squeaks” or “ying-yang fish” or “dog hot pot” yourself.

More troubling than dog or rats is the Chinese taste for bats, that bats that likely started this mess and can be bought at Chinese meat markets. But it’s not just bats and rats, menus from the suspect market also include snakes, frogs, salamanders, civet cats, centipedes and hedgehogs.

NBC's Kelly O’Donnell might worry less about Sean Spicer and a bit more about the role Chinese cravings for bats and rodents may have had in launching coronavirus. It won’t be the first time bizarre Chinese meat preferences got people killed around the globe.

Don’t expect Kelly O’Donnell and her pals to worry more about Chinese communist lies and the fare for sale at the wet market anytime soon. Meanwhile, we can expect some version of the Hong Kong Flu-SARS-MERS-Corona cycle to repeat."