DISINFO: The Covid-19 pandemic was an economic war plot against China that backfired
SUMMARY
The coronavirus crisis is an economic war. The first goal was to break China’s back, and the Chinese economy suffered greatly. But the plan not only failed, it has been extremely counterproductive given that China is part of the supply chain for the West. Socio-economic costs are now exorbitant.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory, with no evidence provided to support any of the claims and part of Russia’s disinformation campaign on the coronavirus, well documented by both media and governments. Elements of this campaign were widely reported by Russian and international publications, and by the European External Action Service. EUvsDisinfo database has a long set of Kremlin-linked disinformation cases on this subject, such as claims that Bill Gates and George Soros are sponsoring the Wuhan coronavirus, that it is a UK, US or NATO creation and Americans have its cure, that it is an artificial disease which specifically targets Chinese DNA, that it is a pretext to gain control of the world’s population, that it was created with economic goals while big pharma companies are spreading panic for their own profits, that it is a biological weapon against Russia and China, that it will wipe out Ukraine’s population in a few days or that it was predicted by Nostradamus and others.