Why is Susan Rice using coronavirus as an excuse to shill for China?

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Washington Examiner

Susan Rice just reminded Xi Jinping why he misses her presence in the president's ear. 

 

President Barack Obama's former national security adviser did so with two arguments on Tuesday to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. 

First, and admittedly at Mitchell's pushing, Rice stated that the Trump administration's description of the coronavirus as the "Wuhan virus" is unacceptable and undermines global cooperation. Viruses can arise anywhere, Rice said, adding that "Wuhan virus" is "race-baiting" and "shameful." 

This was news to me. I was under the impression that Wuhan is not a race, but rather a Chinese industrial city where the virus first infected humans.

But Rice wasn't done, adding, "It doesn't serve us well, it doesn't serve the objective of squelching the virus globally, to brand in nationalistic, or xenophobic, or racist terms. We all have to work together..." 

Rice's first implication here is that the need for cooperation means it is wrong to criticize China in any regard over the virus, even though the Chinese Communist Party's deception led to its catastrophic mishandling of the virus in the outbreak's earliest stages. You know, when the virus might just have been stopped from becoming a global pandemic.

But then Rice shifted her cooperation-at-all-costs argument on its head.