If the United States mourns, the China certainly not laughing. It couldn't have come at a more unfortunate time the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing of the night between June 3 and 4, 1989. China is back under fire more than ever and, if Trumpism wasn't giving its worst with the murder of an African American by the police in Minneapolis and the threat of White House to use the army against popular protests, Beijing would certainly be the number one defendant in the world. Not only because the memory of the blood of Tiananmen, where 31 years ago the regime showed its most ferocious face and massacred thousands of citizens protesting civilly for freedom and democracy with tanks, is always dramatic, but because China shows that it hasn't learned its lesson and even in Hong Kong it is once again showing its hard face against popular protest. In recent days, China has approved the law that is at the origin of the clashes in Hong Kong, imposing the extradition of citizens of the former British colony and effectively canceling their autonomy, which had always been based on the principle "One country, two systems". But what was most striking is the fact that in the face of the US and UK's invitation to be cautious, China has responded curtly by inviting Trump and Johnson not to interfere in what are considered Chinese internal affairs.
However, Tiananmen and Hong Kong are not the only thorns in China's side: a huge blow to its credibility also comes from charges of the United Nations Health Organization (WHO) in Beijing of having hidden and delayed the dissemination of data on the Coronavirus from the very beginning, making the whole world (and Italy above all) pay a very high price in terms of human lives and sick people. WHO executives had been asking Beijing for precise information since the first days of January, but on the Coronavirus, China has been silent for a long time and has provided data on the epidemic that had broken out in Wuhan with great delay.
Now an investigation by the AP agency is nailing Beijing to its responsibilities, but in some way also revealing Donald Trump's bad faith, who took it out on the WHO by cutting its funding, without understanding that in reality the World Health Organization had tried in every way to corner Beijing, which instead tried to hide the truth until the last minute and that he acted in perfect bad faith, despite the fact that the virus had been spreading at great speed since the end of last year.
In the face of violence and repression in America and China, perhaps even our national sovereignists should have the courage to admit that Europe is better and that, despite all its delays, the Old Continent has guaranteed us seventy years of peace and tranquility that were not at all obvious.
