China outraged after Brazil minister suggests Covid-19 is part of 'plan for world domination'

China has demanded an explanation from Brazil after the far-right government’s education minister linked the coronavirus pandemic to Beijing’s “plan for world domination”, in a tweet imitating a Chinese accent.

In the latest incident to strain ties between the two nations, minister Abraham Weintraub insinuated China was behind the global health crisis.

“Geopolitically, who will come out stronger from this global crisis?” he wrote on Twitter Saturday. “Who in Brazil is allied with this infallible plan for world domination?”

In the original Portuguese, his tweet substituted the letter “r” with capital “L” - “BLazil” instead of “Brazil,” for example - in a style commonly used to mock a Chinese accent.

China’s embassy in Brazil condemned Weintraub’s “absurd and despicable” tweet, calling it “highly racist”. “The Chinese government expects an official explanation from Brazil,” tweeted ambassador Yang Wanming.

The row comes as Brazil, like many countries, is hoping to source more medical equipment from China to deal with Covid-19.

Weintraub said in an interview he stood by his tweet and called on China to do more to help fight the pandemic. “If they [China] sell us 1,000 ventilators, I’ll get down on my knees in front of the embassy, apologise and say I was an idiot,” he told Radio Bandeirantes.

Health minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said last week Brazil was struggling to source ventilators and other vital health supplies from China, saying some of its orders were cancelled without explanation.

The issue erupted online on Monday. The top trend on Twitter in Brazil was the hashtag #TradeBlockadeOnChinaNow.

Brazil, whose biggest trading partner is China, is the Latin American country hit hardest by the new coronavirus, with nearly 500 deaths and more than 11,000 confirmed cases so far.

Since the pandemic emerged, Brazil-China ties have been strained, notably by a series of tweets by President Jair Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo, a federal lawmaker. Eduardo Bolsonaro criticised the Chinese “dictatorship” for its handling of the outbreak in March.

Last week, he tweeted about the “Chinese virus”, a phrase that infuriates Beijing and that the World Health Organization has advised against. It has also been used by US president Donald Trump.

That prompted China’s consul general in Rio de Janeiro, Li Yang, to ask Eduardo Bolsonaro in an opinion column in Brazilian newspaper O Globo: “Are you really that naive and ignorant?”

Culled from theguardian.co.uk

This shiit is getting messier everyday. But honestly Buhari isn't doing anything. Buhari isn't taking much steps. Buhari is not fit to be a local government Chairman, talkless of being President.

It's not something to turn a blind eye and look away. If not china alone, then one country in collabo with one of em has a motive. Either way, this pandemic is not just ordinary. I might be myopic to some people with my words and thinking but at the end, it shall surely speak. And if it turns out to be true, there might not be a complete China map eventually.

kinglee007:
It's not something to turn a blind eye and look away. If not china alone, then one country in collabo with one of em has a motive. Either way, this pandemic is not just ordinary. I might be myopic to some people with my words and thinking but at the end, it shall surely speak. And if it turns out to be true, there might not be a complete China map eventually.

Hahahaha, abeg, no make me laugh

kinglee007:
It's not something to turn a blind eye and look away. If not china alone, then one country in collabo with one of em has a motive. Either way, this pandemic is not just ordinary. I might be myopic to some people with my words and thinking but at the end, it shall surely speak. And if it turns out to be true, there might not be a complete China map eventually.

Sincerely I hope China is not behind this. Well a whole lot of academic research on the virus still points to the fact that it was not bio engineered. But someone, in a time of extreme crisis, has to be a scapegoat. It's a Human thing to do.

When a strange disease hit our African ancestors, they sacrifice humans. Scapegoats are essential. This pandemic isn't any different. China would be a scapegoat.

E go be the world like film....let them keep praising 5G

There is one thing Brazilians have in common with Nigerians - foolish leaders

China CCP leaders care so much about their image to the outside world, but they are known for running the most oppressive regime after North Korea.