Is China to blame for the world’s suffering today?

Amit Samant
2 min readMar 27, 2020

Many people are nowadays getting increasingly belligerent about the “Chinese Virus”. But would China’s govt truly do something like this knowingly?

My heart refuses to accept this. Over the years – despite a reluctance to give political freedom to its citizens – China has not given any evidence to show that they would one day “deliberately” launch a virus which would put the lives of millions around the world at risk. No this has to be a mistake on their part to let it get out of hand and spread out to the world.

Every non Chinese who got this illness got it because they chose to be in China or trade with China. No one forced them. They were all pursuing their self interest. So now let’s not blame “only” China. The way the world has grown today – it’s an unfair world. US due to the might of its dollar rules the world. Indian stock markets collapsed because of the USD investors. So should we also not call it a USD Virus?

Let’s think and wait for substantial evidence before passing a judgement on China, all Chinese and before we ostracise them!

If not then UK – pls compensate India for all the mess you left behind in the form of Kashmir.

US – compensate us for all the environmental damage being done by US companies in India.

Such an argument helps no one!

Let’s focus on winning a global fight against this virus. Let’s work WITH China to end this virus!

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Amit Samant

An MNC Banker living in Mumbai - US educated - writes about life and its peculiarities. Personal finance, philosophy and politics fav muses.