A lot to the countrys fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are going to quickly changing the world we live in. Breaks it down but it was a slogan that whatever the problem is the boards jokes and counting the cost on aljazeera. Is that of a global backlash against china for its handling of coronavirus australia wants an International Inquiry into the origins of covert 90 pounds china lost an opportunity to display Global Leadership or kind of a calming creasing suspicion of its motives this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program and its. Attempts by chinas leaders to divert attention away from early cover ups of the corona Virus Outbreak seem to be backfiring lists of medical supplies from china to europes worst hit countries have been quickly forgotten french president emanuel macron says beijing hasnt been up front over its handling of the pandemic us President Donald Trump has suggested demanding compensation from china close ally australia wants an International Inquiry into the origin of covert 90 Chinese State media responded by calling australia a gum stuck to china shoot the Prime MinisterScott Morrison isnt backing down whats really important is that we have a proper review an independent review which looks into the sources of these things in a transparent way so we can learn the listens to ensure that were there to be a virus and pinned in big potential that region anywhere else in the world we can learn the lefse and from that and thats what australia is focused on in our written to all the g 20 leaders today and china is fighting back against criticism from all over the world donald trump has often used the term chinese virus while the Chinese ForeignMinistry Spokesman suggested that u. S. Military imported the virus to woo han most experts believe the virus occurred naturally originating in wildlife when the german newspaper built demanded china pay billions of dollars in compensation for economic damage the Chinese Embassy in berlin accused the paper of stirring prejudice and frances foreign minister summoned the chinese mboya after Embassy Staff in paris said french care homes were leaving elderly patients to die chinas government denied criticizing frances handling of the crisis. Lets bring in our panel joining us from beijing is i not tangan a political analyst on Chinese Affairs and a former chinese provincial government advisor from reston in virginia in the United StatesBonnie Glaser a Senior Advisor for asia and director of the chinese power project at the center for strategic and International Studies and from nottingham in the u. K. Andreas folder a senior fellow at the university of Nottingham Asia Research Institute welcome to you all 1st of all to you whats gone wrong for china in the fallout from the coronavirus i mean lots of countries stumbled in their initial response why be wise china being so defensive. Well it has and the story is or the narrative is that china donates 6 days and that this somehow is responsible for the pandemic that followed. Oh i can say that i think its just should be glad that it didnt happen in the United States i mean the origin there because otherwise we trump length for 2 and a half months its clear that china feels under attack and you can understand why these constant allegations that they were there are hiding debts that they somehow wanted this pandemic chap and now its gone. Trump is claiming that somehow this is part of a conspiracy to make sure that he was not reelected you know mixing these things up makes for politics but the problem is were in a pandemic and comment damn its do not observe Political Parties or geographical lines bonnie whats gone wrong in china wise is so badly handled the fallout from the coronavirus. Well i think that china has you know a history of trying to cover up information early on what were seeing this time with a covered 19 isnt really that different from what happened early in 2003 with sars so local level officials are afraid to tell the top doctors this time trying to inform the public that this was a very dangerous virus but then they were silenced by by the party now after a period of time i think that china recognized that there was a really serious threat and they tried to get on top of the fact that this dr lee when they. Tried to warn the public and of course he died of the virus and the chinese public was very angry so the party feels a threat i think to its legitimacy that people have been criticizing the party when polacre remember swen trimline went to calm people were yelling when she was standing in the street everything is fake. In other words she was being shown a presentation of one hand that was really not real now thats not to denigrate how china has handled the virus afterwards because china got control of this virus sent it to some extent yes they use draco nian measures and we could talk about that but at the early phases i think that china did not handle this virus well and the party is quite worried about being criticized domestically and now of course its being criticized from around the world more than ever before andrea says is china almost bucks now as it tries to repair its reputation in the way its viewed as a handling the coronaVirus Outbreak. Well you know from a european perspective i think its safe to say that a lot of a trust has gone and in a way the cover up that. Bunny just spoke about is the Chinese Communist parties or regional sin because i think if this was indeed an accident or you know a pandemic can happen anywhere in the world in an office or a terran system where control of information and control of the message and global narrative is so important and you know it does matter how the Political Leadership response to it and from a european perspective i think whats been particularly galloping has been this you know this Information Campaign coming out of china where at times not only the United States was accused of importing this virus but it was incinerated by spokespeople of the party that perhaps it originated from italy and weve seen problems with you know defective p. P. Equipment being sold to europe and so i think the sentiment among politicians and diplomats and other assist you know all of the checklist parties not to be trusted and thats it isnt it china has lost trust its attempts at mask diplomacy giving protective equipment to countries in europe that were there were hit people forgotten about that and now john has to try and rebuild trust somehow how does he do that. Well theyre not i think youre putting up facts before there are in evidence quite frankly china doesnt feel that its done anything wrong they understand completely and they have acknowledged that the local officials were as bonnie set very reticent about the supposing the entire situation may have been punished the National Governments a program they did extraordinary measures as bonnie said she would characterize as this rico nea although theyre being used elsewhere today in terms of domestically i dont see im here ive been here for 15 years i dont see any of this kind of sense that the government is out to topple quite quite the opposite the people that ive talked to individually theyve said that theyre quite proud way that china has handled that it was able to keep the number of deaths very low that the draco nian measures at the time seem very tough but now they seem very necessary now if you contrast what china has done with you know the wild box that you hadnt written United States other parts of europe and you know these are 1st world countries who assume that anything that china could do they could do better unfortunately they didnt and havent and theyre ignoring the lessons that china has to offer them in terms of mass diplomacy if china hadnt offered these things its now being accused of hoarding p. P. So which is it is it that china is trying to help and theyre in criticize or they didnt help they would be criticized so at this point china doesnt feel it can win and the International Theater of politics when these leaders are trying simply to cover up their own that is a malfeasance Bonnie Donald trump is looking to divert attention from his own mishandling of the corona Virus Outbreak china com when can it. Well yeah i think that you know china has has made mistakes and there are still questions about its own handling of the virus and there have been no virus samples that were shared with the International Community i think that the. Institute of uralla g. E. Should be opened up to International Inspection to prove to the rest of the world that nothing went iraq they are but i am not an epidemiologist so i certainly would not even imply that we really know how this virus started and i think we should look to scientists to explain and most scientists believe that this fire secured naturally but i do think that there are things that china could do better chinas going around the world asking for public affirmation of gratitude to china for its giving of masks and other medical supplies and equipment so in the United States in wisconsin for example there was a local representative from the consulate who contacted the governor and sent a draft text of a resolution that it wanted passed in the state legislature thanking china. The way that the chinese do these things a really very ham handed they want praise from around the world and want to be seen as a Global Leader and a reliable stakeholder in the world but it would be better if they just allowed whatever they do their actions to speak for themselves i believe that some of what china has done has really created antibodies around the world this of course started before covert 19. Some of the belton road loans you know in projects for example china learns by doing and hopefully will improve its behavior Going Forward but the Chinese Communist party has a tendency to overreach and overstep. Theres no doubt that chinas importance to the Global Economy particularly as we try to head towards a recovery out of the coronavirus but other indications that some countries are more willing now to to stand their ground in face of pressure from beijing as a result of the coronavirus. Well i think one of the preliminary lessons from 1000 is that in europe in mainland europe in the u. K. And in the United States weve become very much aware of the reliance on supply chains coming out of china and it cannot be that were are dependent effectively on imports of critical medicine but also p. P. Equipment which is manufactured in china you see a tenant just suggested that somehow china cannot do it right either theyre hoarding or theyre sharing you know p. P. But you know in my understanding is that in general february. These come you know this industries were nationalized and a manufacturing of p. P. Equipment which is so important for the entire world was to be done exclusively for the domestic market and at the same time we now know that under the party. Command a lot of p. P. It was bought from all over the world and so that actually deprived mainland europe many countries including the u. K. And the u. S. Of absolutely vital p. P. You know equipment and theres still this is very very problematic that is. Something i think we need to point out or is there a worry that in china that other countries may now diversify from manufacturing in china because of those restrictions that were put in place japan its a mark 2 point 2000000000. 00 out of its Recovery Program so that manufacturers can diversify. Yes that is the offer and quite frankly if this isnt a plot by the city is chinese to take over the market 3 m. Is one of the largest makers of p. P. Either an American Company in their basement an atlas or address 2 points this is this conversation is you know very typical because you have 2 things being asserted which are not true 1st up bonnie i was chairman of wisconsins International Trade council directly under the governor in the state legislature biasing on Foreign Direct Investment etc and out now the at the chances that the. Chinese consulate in chicago which is very close would send a letter not to the governor but to the most avid china hawk on the republican side of the aisle asking him to sponsor legislation is very slim and fact the consulate denies it so the only thing you have is a set somebody who does a lie china says that he received a letter saying this now in terms of my other colleagues when he said that p. P. Had been nationalized its utter tosh it never happened i mean there are all sorts of bears out there and that was part of the problem you had opportunistic businesspeople in china trying to send out things that reese upstanding the Chinese Government took an immediate steps and made sure that all p. P. E had to be certified by the Chinese Government not to slow it down around trots so you know when you use go on these programs and you have these kind of half truths or a complete and accurate one yes it is very hard for china to win because you keep having this you know this narrative ok it will but bonnie let me ask you we keep hearing that she jingping has introduced a sort of a a very top down style leadership in china from what youve seen of how china has handled coronavirus do you say does that tell us anything about xi jinping means leadership new style of leadership. Well there are some aspects of the way that china handled this coronaviruses i said at the outset that are just quite typical of the Chinese Communist party that weve seen before there is obviously a lack of transparency but i do think in this particular instance with siege and paying and in charge we we see some of the problems that existed prior to the siege and pins will that are now magnified a lot of fear of telling the top got bad news so when this virus broke out and they were obviously Health Workers that were infected indeed we saw in an email that taiwan sent to the w. H. O. On december 31st indicating because they were in touch with medical authorities in Mainland China and said that there had been reports of 7 Health Workers that had been infected so that really does suggest of course human to human transmission but that was. It covered up and we dont know exactly when sujan paying was actually notified of what was going on on the ground so i think and there is there is fear to tell the top guy bad news theres a desire to prevent the outside world sometimes from knowing the truth its unclear why they went in and sanitized or and disinfected the entire market which apparently again im not an epidemiologist but apparently this makes it difficult to track where which animal if thats in fact how the virus spread which animal that virus may have jumped to from from a bat so the system itself is the problem but i think that some of the aspects of the system have been magnified under siege and pains will under as what do what do you see what have you learned from the ways xi jinping has rules a communist policy over coronavirus. You see from again from a european perspective very often for example people think about us china relations as a kind of great you know great power vitally whereas in fact its a systemic rivalry and yeah i would like to echo a point that bonnie just made. And for us you know to engage with Mainland China and a commis rule is not a value neutral you know proposition and in mind view our europe really needs to act very fast now to defend its own values make up its mind whether it wants to side with an arguably imperfect but still democratic United States or an increasingly totalitarian china and if you may allow me to make one more point you know i have many conversations here with european quote unquote progressives who refrain from critiquing the time comes r. T. Which i think is politically an ethically moral imperative but you know what ive learned is that they do so for fear of being lumped together with the Trump Administration and so theyre more concerned about their own reputation and standing in the community and i think this is totally unacceptable because its of course doable you know why should we criticize trump but whats happening in Mainland China in terms of the suppressant suppression of their 1500000 readers and cuts x. Were held against their will in terms of cams slash labor cams you know the suppression of the good people in hong kong the military threats these are in taiwan you know the policy is in the such as it is are all things that are really worrisome. So i think what are your plans you know we should really take a more assertive stance towards china and let me ask you this we hear a lot about china adopting wolf warrior diplomacy which essentially means chinese diplomats being more prepared to be overtly assertive of the chinese position is that the problem here that the rest of world isnt u