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PREVIEW: Gordon Chang reports that the CDC asked for contact information on a recent flight from Tokyo -- at the same time that five US Senators are asking the brder with China be closed because of an "unexplained pneumonia" on the Mainland

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: Gordon Chang reports that the CDC asked for contact information on a recent flight from Tokyo -- at the same time that five US Senators are asking the brder with China be closed because of an "unexplained pneumonia" on the Mainland

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Five US senators are asking for comment and clarification and action because of an unexplained

0:39.2

pneumonia said to be on the mainland of China.

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At the same time, my colleague Gordon Chang has just returned from Tokyo after a business event.

0:50.0

And he compares his most recent return from Tokyo in December to his return from

0:56.2

Tokyo in October. Something has changed. Significantly, the CDC is present suddenly. Now I recall that Gordon and I were reporting on the

1:08.1

South China Morning Post report in early January 2000 of an unexplained pneumonia.

1:15.0

Perhaps this is a repetition, perhaps it's a false lead.

1:19.0

In any event, what we didn't know then, we know now to be exceedingly cautious about unexplained

1:26.4

pneumonia is from the mainland of China. Here's Gordon. Good evening John.

1:30.9

We returned from Tokyo yesterday, and in order to get a boarding card on United, we had to provide a contact address and a contact phone number in the U.S. And we had to consent for United to give that information to the CDC.

1:48.4

This is something that we didn't have to do in mid-October when we returned from Tokyo. So apparently somebody in

1:55.6

Washington or Atlanta is worried about what's going on in China.

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