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I have noted the increased bullying by China against the Philippines, including an aggressive stealing of our resources, during the wuhanvirus epidemic.

Austin Bay has an essay about China's moves against others while the world is busy with the epidemic.

as for the epidemic: He notes the conspiracy theorists are ignoring the real question:

I am absolutely certain hotheads around the planet believe the virus is a bio weapon, but there's no scientific evidence to support that claim.
However, man-made isn't the question. The pertinent question: Did the virus escape Wuhan's Level 4 (very high-risk) research lab via an incompetent technician who had a close encounter with a virus-ridden bat?This is a reasonable question for anyone to ask — anyone who is not getting cash from Beijing or is what Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong called " a useful idiot."
Another legit question that has yet to be answered: Why did CCP-Beijing lie about human-to-human transmissibility? Did the dictatorship want the rest of the world to suffer the physical and economic loss the Hubei province was suffering as of Jan. 20? (It may have been very bad as of Jan. 3.)
These are critical questions. Lives around the world have been lost, and more are at risk.
Instead of addressing these legitimate and grievous questions, China's dictatorship imprisons Hong Kong democracy advocates and employs slimy rhetorical gimmicks that would get a used car salesman in Amarillo, Texas, laughed out of town.

ah, but there are some stories that don't get covered, and others who bias the story to fit the meme, which is anti American (because the left wing takeover of the Democratic party is anti American) and is willing to subtly spread the Chinese propaganda. 

Useful idiots indeed.

that part about "useful idiots" is explained by this BBC program:

Useful idiots, in a broader sense, refers to Western journalists, travellers and intellectuals who gave their blessing – often with evangelistic fervour – to tyrannies and tyrants, thereby convincing politicians and public that utopias rather than Belsens thrived. In part one John Sweeney looks at Stalin's Western apologists. In part two he explores how present day stories of human rights abuses across the world are still rewritten.

we see a lot of this in the US MSM, alas.

every story about China's illegal aggression by building artificial islands in the West Philippine sea call it a "dispute", as if the world court didn't rule against them, and of course, ignoring history that it has been part of the Philippines for at least 500 years and that the part near Vietnam might have been considered part of China when that region was part of China, but last time I looked, the Vietnamese threw them out 300 years ago...

Yet the reporters always write the story as if China had a legitimate claim here.

and this problem goes beyond the Philippines: right now, as Austin Bay notes, they are threatening Taiwan and Hong Kong.

the Han people expanded into Taiwan a couple hundred years ago, and then part of the time Taiwan was owned by Japan. So is it part of China? One could say the same thing about Tibet, who was an independent country but invaded by China and is now being settled by Chinese who are running their economies and pushing Chinese culture.

But it goes beyond that: China is also threatening the borderlands with India.

Who's next? Well, China has long claimed Siberia, and in the recent past has expanded economic influence and immigrants to Eastern Russia, so it's only a matter of time until that domino starts being pushed... and Putin knows it.

Russia is a natural ally of Europe and the west, but never mind: now we are getting into the history of wars going back over a thousand years: Ottoman vs Russia vs western Europe vs Parthia vs China vs Arab. Americans don't study history, but other countries do.

and now: quick: How many stories have you read about the imprisonment of one million Uighars, the persecution of the Falun Gong, the shut down of Christian churches, and the latest: The arrest of the leaders of the Hong Kong democracy leaders.