{"id":1188376,"date":"2022-01-04T19:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188376"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:35:06","slug":"china-scolds-america-for-celebrating-new-years-eve-a-year-after-crowded-wuhan-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-scolds-america-for-celebrating-new-years-eve-a-year-after-crowded-wuhan-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"China Scolds America for Celebrating New Year&#039;s Eve a Year After Crowded Wuhan Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-scolds-america-for-celebrating-new-years-eve-a-year-after-crowded-wuhan-bash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> government newspaper condemned Americans in an article on Monday for \u201cshouting, kissing, and dancing\u201d on New Year\u2019s Eve while much of China was under brutal coronavirus lockdowns \u2013 necessitated by the Communist Party\u2019s poor handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Scenes at the end of 2021 differed significantly on both sides of the planet to how they were in at the beginning of the year. One New Year\u2019s Eve ago, the Chinese government staged a massive party in Wuhan \u2013 the city where the Chinese coronavirus originated and where authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/01\/26\/amid-deadly-virus-outbreak-china-tried-to-hold-worlds-largest-banquet\/\">let it<\/a> spread uncontrolled for months \u2013 for thousands of people, asserting that the global public should \u201cget used to\u201d Wuhan being a major party destination after being home to the worst pandemic in recent memory. A year later, Chinese authorities were forced to cancel New Year\u2019s celebrations in Wuhan over coronavirus cases, even though authorities have insisted the largest outbreak is in Xi\u2019an, a city 400 miles away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDespite the explosion in the number of [Chinese coronavirus] cases, cancelation of thousands of flights, health experts\u2019 warnings have been making headlines, it was not enough to stop Americans celebrating,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1243984.shtml\">lamented<\/a> on Monday, asserting that American \u201coverconfidence\u201d had created an unsustainable public health situation in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Americans in New York, Boston, Las Vegas and elsewhere were celebrating the New Year with shouting, kissing and dancing while ignoring health experts\u2019 advice to wear masks and keep social distance, the epidemic in the US is riding a roller coaster going up at speed,\u201d the newspaper claimed, \u201cbreaking daily records in case numbers and leaving many to wondering when this latest wave will peak, and how high it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The rapid surge in daily <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/covid19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#covid19<\/a> cases in the US proved that treating the virus as a bad flu was a big mistake, and overconfidence and over-reliance on vaccines will likely cost more American lives. Hospitals will be paralyzed: experts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RZm8OsDPjs\">https:\/\/t.co\/RZm8OsDPjs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1478005288980848645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Instead, the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> suggested that America should adopt China\u2019s strategy of brutally locking up cities of millions of people with little notice, leaving them starving with no way of obtaining basic food and necessary medicine. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/30\/china-starving-out-13-million-trapped-epicenter-coronavirus-outbreak\/\">situation<\/a> in Xi\u2019an currently, locked down abruptly on December 23 over the uncontrolled spread of coronavirus in that city. Last week, locals began using Chinese government-run social media outlets like Weibo to complain that they had run out of food and authorities would neither let them out to go shopping or bring them necessary supplies. The complaints were so many that Weibo did not censor many of them and Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/03\/chinese-media-predict-coronavirus-outbreak-will-worsen-in-locked-down-xian\/\">fired<\/a> several local Xi\u2019an and Shaanxi province Communist Party officials. The Chinese regime has also since claimed to have distributed some food supplies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1243756.shtml\">flooding<\/a> Weibo with photos of alleged home deliveries of vegetables.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19337498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Xian-lockdown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19337498 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Xian-lockdown-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"A security guard checks information of a resident at the entrance of a residental area that is under restrictions following a recent coronavirus outbreak in Xian, in China&#039;s northern Shaanxi province on December 23, 2021. - China OUT (Photo by AFP) \/ China OUT (Photo by STR\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A security guard checks information of a resident at the entrance of a residental area that is under restrictions following a recent coronavirus outbreak in Xian, in China\u2019s northern Shaanxi province on December 23, 2021. (Photo by STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The state newspaper complained that similar scenes have not erupted throughout America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican society \u2013 from governments to ordinary people \u2013 treating the virus as a bad flu was a big mistake, and overconfidence and over-reliance on vaccines without strict social controls will cost more American lives from [Chinese coronavirus] and other diseases,\u201d the outlet predicted, \u201cas American hospitals become overwhelmed and even paralyzed in the coming days. They predict that US daily cases are likely to surge to 1 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19337514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237392012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19337514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237392012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This photo taken on December 22, 2021 shows a staff member spraying disinfectant on street in Xi\u2019an in China\u2019s northern Shaanxi province. (Photo by STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> also demanded gratitude from American citizens \u2013 despite the Chinese government\u2019s failures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/11\/9-ways-unrelated-wuhan-lab-china-created-pandemic\/\">causing<\/a> the Chinese coronavirus pandemic \u2013 because the lockdowns in China allegedly helped the Western world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s dynamic zero policy not only shielded the country from the raging pandemic, but also bought time for the West to build up its herd immunity, which the West should \u2018thank\u2019 China for, instead of being ungrateful,\u201d the newspaper asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to the Western media that China\u2019s response is causing more problems than benefits, but Chinese experts said that what China did was extremely meaningful in controlling its domestic flare-ups and saving the world much time for combating the virus and boosting economic recovery, which the West should thank China for,\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Many local Chinese governments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/12\/31\/china-cancels-new-years-eve-gatherings-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads\/\">shut down<\/a> New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations this year over the Xi\u2019an disaster, as well as smaller localized outbreaks throughout the country. Both Beijing \u2013 which is scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in February \u2013 and Shanghai, the country\u2019s largest cities, canceled scheduled New Year events. Wuhan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1243869.shtml\">joined<\/a> other major cities such as Guangzhou and Wuhan in canceling large-scale parties.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the Chinese government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/01\/revelers-hit-the-streets-of-wuhan-the-once-epicenter-of-the-coronavirus-as-times-square-remained-empty\/\">flooded<\/a> social media last year with photos and videos of large crowds congregating in Wuhan to ring in 2021 \u2013 images that corporate outlets in the United States dutifully replicated, in contrast to the shocking images of an empty Times Square in New York under the orders of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio. The Communist Party billed the Wuhan party as a celebration of victory over the Chinese coronavirus, but two weeks later \u2013 about two incubation periods for the first iteration of the virus, now known as \u201calpha\u201d \u2013 China was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/01\/19\/china-fights-nationwide-coronavirus-explosion-two-weeks-wuhan-new-years-bash\/\">forced<\/a> to lock down 11 different regions as outbreaks clearly linked to travel during the New Year holiday had given the virus the opportunity to spread at the national level.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1641384383116000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3plgjV19R-RDoJd0M_IYOp\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1641384383116000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2eMohb3jMGaEXCtnfYArj7\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s\u00a0Global Times government newspaper condemned Americans in an article on Monday for \u201cshouting, kissing, and dancing\u201d on New Year\u2019s Eve while much of China was under brutal coronavirus lockdowns \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}