President Donald Trump blasted Chinese dictator Xi Jinping late on Wednesday over the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s continued disinformation propaganda campaign that they are spreading around the world in an attempt to deflect blame from the pandemic that originated in their country and spread around the world due to China&#8217;s lies, attempted cover-up, and subsequent decision to allow international flights out of the country while restricting travel within their own borders.
&#8220;Spokesman speaks stupidly on behalf of China, trying desperately to deflect the pain and carnage that their country spread throughout the world. Its disinformation and propaganda attack on the United States and Europe is a disgrace,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;It all comes from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but they didn’t!&#8221;
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&#8230;.It all comes from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but they didn’t!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1263282491043037184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump continued, &#8220;China is on a massive disinformation campaign because they are desperate to have Sleepy Joe Biden win the presidential race so they can continue to rip-off the United States, as they have done for decades, until I came along!&#8221;
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China is on a massive disinformation campaign because they are desperate to have Sleepy Joe Biden win the presidential race so they can continue to rip-off the United States, as they have done for decades, until I came along!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1263282623939477511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump hit China earlier in the day as well, writing, &#8220;Some wacko in China just released a statement blaming everybody other than China for the Virus which has now killed hundreds of thousands of people. Please explain to this dope that it was the &#8216;incompetence of China&#8217;, and nothing else, that did this mass Worldwide killing!&#8221;
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Some wacko in China just released a statement blaming everybody other than China for the Virus which has now killed hundreds of thousands of people. Please explain to this dope that it was the “incompetence of China”, and nothing else, that did this mass Worldwide killing!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1263085979491016708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s tweets comes after hundreds of thousands of people have died around the world from the coronavirus that experts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-coronavirus-outbreak-could-have-been-reduced-by-95-if-china-acted-sooner">said</a> could have been contained in China if China had acted quicker.
Instead of acting to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Chinese Communist Party officials silenced doctors and journalists who tried to warn the world; censored internet search terms in China that were related to the outbreak; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pompeo-proven-right-china-admits-that-it-intentionally-destroyed-coronavirus-lab-samples">destroyed samples of the coronavirus that it had in its labs</a>; refused to allow CDC officials into China to investigate the outbreak and to help contain it; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says">repeatedly lied</a> about the extent of the outbreak in their country so they could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-intel-report-suggests-china-intentionally-concealed-the-severity-of-pandemic-to-hoard-supplies">reportedly hoard medical supplies</a> from around the world that they needed to combat the outbreak; falsely blamed the U.S. military of bringing the coronavirus to Wuhan; and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-threatens-australia-if-it-pushes-for-investigation-over-coronavirus-report-says">threatened</a> other countries for supporting an international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus inside China.
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‘It All Comes From The Top’: Trump Unloads On China For Their Lies And ‘The Pain And Carnage’ They Have ‘Spread Throughout The World’

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The World Health Organization fired back Monday at a blockbuster <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/corona-ausbruch-vertuscht-muss-china-fuer-die-pandemie-schaeden-zahlen-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000170816271">report from Der Spiegel</a>, revealing that WHO officials communicated with the Chinese government, and may have deliberately held back on giving other countries critical information about the spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes the deadly COVID-19, after being pressured by China and its president, Xi Jinping.
The shocking report, published over the weekend in Germany and translated for American audiences on Saturday, provides compelling evidence that Xi Jinping asked WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to &#8220;withhold information about human-to-human transition and delay the declaration of a global pandemic,&#8221; per the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/09/china-who-coronavirus-coverup-germany/">Daily Caller</a>, which published selections of the report for American audiences.
The report says that BND, the German Federal Intelligence Service, discovered that &#8220;Xi met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on January 21&#8221; and asked the WHO to delay reporting accurate information about the novel coronavirus, including that the virus could be transmitted from human to human &#8212; something both China and the WHO denied in missives issued as late as mid-January.
Although the full report is available only in German, information from the Taiwanese government, claiming that it warned the WHO in mid-December that it had found evidence of significant community spread of the virus, seems to back up allegations that the WHO sat on evidence of person-to-person transmission for at least four to six weeks, causing significant global delays in addressing the coronavirus pandemic and possibly costing thousands of lives.
&#8220;Researchers at the University of Southampton found that if China had acted and gone public with its information just three weeks sooner, it could have reduced spread of the disease by as much as 95%,&#8221; the Daily Caller points out.
On Monday, the U.N. agency denied the report, calling it &#8220;unfounded and untrue&#8221; and decrying its allegations, sourced from German Intelligence, as  “false.&#8221;
&#8220;The U.N. agency said Tedros and Xi &#8216;have never spoken by phone&#8217; and added that &#8216;such inaccurate reports distract and detract from WHO’s and the world’s efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/10/who-denies-report-of-pressure-to-withhold-info">Euro News reports</a>. &#8220;It said that China confirmed human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus on Jan. 20.&#8221;
The statement went on to say that the WHO “publicly declared” the discovery two days later, noting, finally, that “data collected … suggests that human-to-human transmission is taking place in Wuhan.”
The Chinese government also issued its own 30-page point-by-point refutation of the Der Spiegel report, claiming that it has been “open and transparent” about the spread of the novel coronavirus. Instead, quoting Abraham Lincoln, it accused President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence of misleading the world about COVID-19: “As Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all the time and fool all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.&#8221;
President Trump said, several weeks ago, that U.S. intelligence is undertaking an intensive investigation into the World Health Organization and whether it collaborated with China to hide evidence of community spread of the novel coronavirus. If it finds such evidence, the United States will withdraw its $400 million in funding from the global health group. The president has also said that U.S. intelligence services are investigating whether the virus may have escaped a lab in Wuhan.
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WHO, China Denies Org Did China’s Bidding, Hid Critical Coronavirus Information For Weeks

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Leaked documents reveal that Chinese Communist President Xi Jinping knew that the coronavirus outbreak in China was a highly contagious &#8220;epidemic&#8221; at the same time that China told the World Health Organization (WHO) that there was no &#8220;evidence of human-to-human transmission.&#8221;
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9">reported</a> late on Tuesday night that leaked internal documents from China show that Xi knew that the situation was dire and that the &#8220;risk of transmission and spread&#8221; was &#8220;high&#8221; by January 14 at the latest, the same day that the WHO downplayed the outbreak.
That same day, the WHO tweeted: &#8220;Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China&#8221;
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Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> (2019-nCoV) identified in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wuhan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Wuhan</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a>🇨🇳. <a href="https://t.co/Fnl5P877VG">pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG</a>
&mdash; World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) <a href="https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It has already been reported that Xi had taken control of China&#8217;s coronavirus response on January 7, but the AP&#8217;s report sheds light on when he knew that the outbreak was highly contagious. China did not tell the world that the coronavirus could be spread from human-to-human until January 20.
&#8220;In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations,&#8221; the AP reported. &#8220;President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.&#8221;
Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told the AP that the revelation is &#8220;tremendous.&#8221;
&#8220;If they took action six days earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would have been sufficient,&#8221; Zhang said. &#8220;We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical system.&#8221;
&#8220;The six-day delay by China’s leaders in Beijing came on top of almost two weeks during which the national Center for Disease Control did not register any cases from local officials, internal bulletins obtained by the AP confirm,&#8221; the AP continued. &#8220;Yet during that time, from Jan. 5 to Jan. 17, hundreds of patients were appearing in hospitals not just in Wuhan but across the country.&#8221;
The leaked documents obtained by the AP &#8220;show that the head of China’s National Health Commission, Ma Xiaowei, laid out a grim assessment of the situation on Jan. 14 in a confidential teleconference with provincial health officials.&#8221;
A memo showed that the teleconference was held to give instructions from Xi and other top Chinese communist officials.
&#8220;The epidemic situation is still severe and complex, the most severe challenge since SARS in 2003, and is likely to develop into a major public health event,&#8221; the memo cites Ma as saying.
A section of the memo titled &#8220;sober understanding of the situation,&#8221; stated that &#8220;clustered cases suggest that human-to-human transmission is possible.&#8221;
&#8220;With the coming of the Spring Festival, many people will be traveling, and the risk of transmission and spread is high,&#8221; the memo said. &#8220;All localities must prepare for and respond to a pandemic.&#8221;
The next day the Chinese CDC activated its highest-level response to the epidemic, but only internally, as the Chinese communists continued to downplay the risk and clearly stated in the memo that the information was &#8220;not to be publicly disclosed.&#8221;
China not only lied about and tried to cover-up the initial outbreak, they are also accused of trying to lie about and cover-up what appears to be a new wave of outbreaks in China. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-still-misleads-the-world-on-the-coronavirus-11586818132">reported</a> on Monday:
<blockquote>As the world struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak without triggering a new Great Depression, China is withholding vital information that would save lives and significantly alleviate the economic catastrophe that now threatens to immiserate hundreds of millions of people around the world.
This isn’t the old coverup, when Communist Party bumbling and deceit allowed a local outbreak to turn into the worst global disaster in decades. The new coverup is even more brazen. China continues to falsify vital information about the epidemic on a massive scale.
The evidence comes from many sources. In a classified report to the White House, the U.S. intelligence community has concluded that China underreports both deaths and the total number of cases. The Economist magazine compared China’s reported statistics with those from other countries and found that numbers changed dramatically in response to political events, such as the firing and replacement of local officials.</blockquote>
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) reported last week that a &#8220;conservative estimation&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aei-releases-conservative-estimate-of-chinas-true-outbreak-numbers-its-staggering">found</a> that China&#8217;s initial outbreak produced 2.9 million coronavirus cases in China and up to 136,000 deaths — a far cry from the roughly 83,000 cases and 3,300 deaths that China has <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html">reported</a>.

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BOMBSHELL: Memo Reveals When Chinese President Xi Knew Outbreak Was ‘Severe’ ‘Epidemic’

Here’s A Timeline Of The Coronavirus Outbreak And China’s Coverup

The U.S. State Department summoned Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai on Friday after top Chinese officials have started making categorically false statements suggesting that the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to China.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-department-summons-chinese-ambassador-coronavirus">reported</a>:
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A senior State official told Fox News that Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell called in Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai over China’s “blatant, global” disinformation campaign on the novel coronavirus.
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The report comes after Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian falsely claimed on Twitter on Thursday, “When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!”
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/china-smear-united-states-coronavirus-wuhan">reported</a> on Thursday:
<blockquote>Beijing has been bending over backward trying to convince the world that the United States is the real culprit behind the quickly spreading virus that’s already claimed more than 4,600 lives across the globe. It’s a high-stakes strategy for the Asian nation fighting to keep its superpower status amid a national lockdown and palpable anger over claims that Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus, at first covered it up, triggering a worldwide health and economic crisis.
At best, China’s aggressive new campaign can be chalked up to ambitious propaganda. At its worst, it’s a reckless display from a country that has actively misled the world while working overtime to save its own skin, foreign affairs expert Gordon G. Chang told Fox News. Chang believes Beijing has been laying the groundwork for a PR attack against the United States for more than a month, first by throwing doubt on the origin of COVID-19 and second, by slamming America’s handling of previous diseases like the swine flu, which decimated China’s pork industry.</blockquote>
China allegedly lied to the world about the extent of the outbreak, silenced whistleblowers, and refused assistance from the CDC and WHO to help contain the outbreak for over a month.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/asia/china-coronavirus-response-propaganda.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Mr. Xi, China’s most influential leader since Mao, has made it a priority to expand the country’s economic and military might around the world and to demonstrate that China can play the role of responsible superpower.
The coronavirus outbreak has undermined those global ambitions, and the propaganda push suggests the party might be worried about lasting damage. And as the virus spreads to 56 countries and wreaks havoc on global markets, experts say the campaign could revive concerns about China’s secretive approach to managing the crisis.</blockquote>
Elizabeth C. Economy, a senior fellow and director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the Times, “The danger for Xi Jinping is that as the virus spreads globally, the role that China’s system of governance played in delaying a timely response will face growing scrutiny and criticism from the international community.”
The massive propaganda campaign is “a last-ditch effort by Xi to deflect blame and avoid a demand by the international community for an honest accounting of what actually transpired,” she continued.

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State Department Summons Chinese Ambassador Over ‘Blatant’ Lies On Coronavirus

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) issued a blistering statement attacking Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping over a new title that he received that hearkens back to former Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong – the most murderous human being in history.
&#8220;During a two-day meeting that ended Friday, chaired by Mr. Xi, the party’s 25-member Politburo hailed his policies as visionary and described him as the renmin lingxiu, or &#8216;people’s leader,&#8217; a designation that directly echoes an accolade most closely associated with Communist China’s founder Mao Zedong,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-chinas-troubles-mushroom-xi-collects-a-special-title-11577525539">reported</a>. &#8220;The title doesn’t give Mr. Xi any more authority than he already wields as the party’s general secretary, his most powerful post. But the reverential tones in the Politburo’s pronouncement—issued late Friday by state media—projects an aura of party unity behind Mr. Xi as he confronts wide-ranging economic and political challenges at home and abroad.&#8221;
Sasse issued a statement on Xi&#8217;s new title, writing:
<blockquote>If Chairman Xi is the “people’s leader,” who are the people? When Chairman Xi talks about “the people,” he doesn’t mean the Uyghurs in torture camps. When Chairman Xi talks about “the people,’ he doesn’t mean the Falun Gong prisoners whose organs are harvested. When Chairman Xi talks about “the people,” he doesn’t mean the baby girls who were left to die under China’s one-child policy. When Chairman Xi talks about “the people,” he means what every communist hack before him has meant: not the people but the communist party.</blockquote>
The statement from Sasse also mentioned that the title was &#8220;previously reserved for Mao Zedong.&#8221;
A 2016 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due/">report</a> from The Washington Post highlighted Zedong&#8217;s cemented place in history as the largest mass murderer in world history:
<blockquote>Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of a terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust. But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people – easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.</blockquote>
China has been under intense scrutiny as the communist nation has millions of Muslims <a href="https://apnews.com/62097e9dd2844aab8d64a2be2ebaa972">locked</a> in concentration camps, is <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646">harvesting</a> organs from detainees, and has created a massive surveillance state that it is reportedly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-surveillance-cameras-police-government.html">exporting</a> to countries around the world.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a statement on Saturday, tweeting, &#8220;From #Tibet to #Xinjiang, the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s repressive campaigns are not about combating terrorism. The #CCP is attempting to erase its own citizens’ faiths and cultures. All societies must respect and protect religious freedom.&#8221;
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From <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tibet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Tibet</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Xinjiang?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Xinjiang</a>, the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s repressive campaigns are not about combating terrorism. The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CCP</a> is attempting to erase its own citizens’ faiths and cultures. All societies must respect and protect religious freedom.
&mdash; Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1211037954971512832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Pompeo&#8217;s tweet comes at approximately the same time that a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/world/asia/china-xinjiang-children-boarding-schools.html">report</a> was published that highlighted how China is targeting children whose parents have been away to concentration camps.
&#8220;Nearly a half million children have been separated from their families and placed in boarding schools so far,&#8221; the Times reported, adding, &#8220;The schools are off limits to outsiders and tightly guarded, and it is difficult to interview residents in Xinjiang without putting them at risk of arrest. But a troubling picture of these institutions emerges from interviews with Uighur parents living in exile and a review of documents published online, including procurement records, government notices, state media reports and the blogs of teachers in the schools.&#8221;

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Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping Gets New Title. Senator Ben Sasse Responds With Fiery Statement.

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British GQ has officially joined the ranks of the NBA and Blizzard Entertainment in publicly acting out of fear of &#8220;offending&#8221; the human rights-violating Chinese government.
One of the most significant stories of 2019 has been influential western entities caving to China amid the ongoing pro-Democracy protests in Hong Kong against the authoritarian communist regime. The NBA, following the leads of commissioner Adam Silver and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, infamously cowered to China after one team executive dared to express support for the pro-Democracy protesters on social media. The backlash was swift and severe, as it was for gaming company Blizzard after it punished a popular professional player for likewise showing support for the pro-freedom demonstrators.
Now, as reported by <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/gq-worst-dressed-removal">BuzzFeed News</a>, British GQ has gotten in on the caving to China action, quietly pulling two international leaders from their &#8220;World&#8217;s Top 10 Worst Dressers&#8221; list — leaving the list conspicuously two names short — out of what a spokesperson later admitted was fear of causing &#8220;unintended offense.&#8221;
&#8220;During the course of this week, other news websites, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7757029/Boris-Johnsons-adviser-Dominic-Cummings-crowned-worlds-WORST-dressed-man-GQ.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">like the Mail Online</a>, picked up on the list, spreading the word about whom British GQ thought were the world’s 10 worst dressers,&#8221; BuzzFeed reports. &#8220;But on GQ’s own website, something was different. The &#8216;top 10&#8217; list had become a &#8216;top 8&#8217;. Missing were two individuals: China’s president Xi Jinping and king of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not Hong Kong&#8217;s courageous freedom fighters that Xi Jinping should have a problem with. It&#8217;s his tailor,&#8221; the entry for the Chinese president pulled from the digital version of the article read. &#8220;Xi gets totalitarian style cues from his hero, the mass murderer Chairman Mao, who enforced a dour and plain dress code for the Communist Party.&#8221;
The likewise deleted critique of Vajiralongkorn read: &#8220;How many others living deities do you know with a penchant for really tight crop tops, hipster jeans and fake tattoos? The answer is none. And that&#8217;s because no other exist.&#8221;
While it pulled the entries for those two international figures, British GQ chose to leave on its list U.S. President Donald Trump, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s chief adviser Dominic Cummings, among others.
So what motivated the glaring removal of the two world leaders? A spokesperson at Condé Nast, the mass media company that owns GQ, told BuzzFeed that management ordered the two leaders pulled from the unflattering list out of fear of causing &#8220;unintended offense.&#8221;
Sources at GQ&#8217;s parent company told BuzzFeed that if the piece had been a &#8220;hard-hitting piece of journalism,&#8221; management would have stood by the inclusion of critical references to the two leaders. But since the worst dressed list was intended to be a &#8220;light-hearted list meant for a UK audience,&#8221; management ordered the two figures to be digitally disappeared, maintaining that the potential fallout simply wasn&#8217;t worth it.
With local editions of some of its magazines in both China and Thailand, Condé Nast decided that it was wiser to just delete the entries than to open up the possibility that the unenviable list would stir up unnecessary problems globally.
&#8220;We are conscious that digitally published stories travel globally and can gain traction where they lack the necessary context and can cause unintended offense,&#8221; a spokesperson for the media company told BuzzFeed, noting that the full story still remains in the printed edition of the magazine.
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