#China’s Party-controlled press is now furiously busy scrubbing its reports regarding Swiss biologist “Wilson Edwards” said to be embroiled in a @WHO #covid scandal however...
The statement from #Switzerland’s Embassy in #China regarding “Wilson Edwards”...
A Google search shows the @globaltimesnews piece aaaaaand the page now...
A Google search shows the People’s Daily piece aaaaand the page now...
But the winner tonight is... @ChinaDaily ! Still flying the flag for Swiss biologist Wilson Edwards!
#Switzerland’s most famous biologist Wilson Edwards also lives on in multiple languages c/o @CGTNOfficial. Here he is in Spanish and French... #China #coronavirus
There’s gotta be some Swiss comedian preparing to go to town on the super-Swiss-sounding “Wilson Edwards” and his incredible career as a biologist. #China #Switzerland
16 years into the future there will be all these Swiss blokes struggling to impress women who can’t understand why the teenager talking to them is named Wilson.
In all seriousness though, #China’s Party-controlled media has clearly been ordered to go big on the #coronavirus misinformation in recent days (maybe to pre-empt Biden’s follow-up report?). Enter renowned Swiss biologist Willson Edwards!
Here’s @CGTNOfficial’s story on the mysterious Wilson Edwards and alleged #US “intimidation”. It’s what you get when a society has no media which is allowed to cast the Chinese government in a bad light and when “journalists” jump to attention when called to defend the Party.
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