This is the EXACT line the Washington Post took in the 1980s when the Reagan Administration was combating Soviet active measures. washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
1) Look at the meat of Jackson Diehl's Washington Post op-ed blasting @SecPompeo for combating #CCP disinformation: "Pompeo’s crusade against China is even more senseless. . . ."
2) ". . . He has dedicated himself to affixing blame to Beijing for the epidemic, seemingly in an attempt to counter growing Chinese efforts to aid other nations — initiatives that the Trump administration has failed to match," says Diehl.
3) "'The Chinese Communist Party poses a substantial threat to our health and way of life, as the Wuhan virus clearly has demonstrated,' Pompeo proclaimed after the G-7 meeting, denouncing China for 'claiming that they are now the white hat,'" complains Diehl.
4) "Such overheated rhetoric will mean little to Italians and other Europeans who have welcomed Chinese supplies of medical equipment, while getting nothing from Washington," says Diehl. (Indicator of success of #CCP propaganda themes & poor US public diplomacy overall.)
