Wisconsin State Senate President Roger Roth became enraged after receiving emails from the Chinese Consulate asking him to pass a resolution praising the Chinese Communist Party’s response to COVID-19.
Instead, he introduced a resolution condemning the CCP for misleading the world, concealing the outbreak, and causing a global pandemic.
Based on an Epoch Times Japan article, this piece examines the CCP’s foreign influence operations, its cover-up, its human rights abuses, and the abnormal silence of Japanese television networks and newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun regarding justified anger toward China.

April 24, 2020
“I was truly angry.
At that time, the virus had already begun spreading in America, and we were busy preparing.
And we realized that we had been deceived,” Roth said.
The result of the article in the previous chapter is published at https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2020/04/55227.html.
April 20, 2020, 6:37 p.m.
The emphasis in the text other than the headline, and the notes marked with asterisks, are mine.
Chinese Consulate Tries to Force U.S. State of Wisconsin to “Support” It, but the State Instead Submits a Resolution Condemning the Cover-Up.
Roger Roth, president of the Wisconsin State Senate, submitted a resolution on March 26 condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s response.
According to the text of the resolution, the Chinese Communist Party “intentionally” misled the world about the outbreak in Wuhan and brought about “a global pandemic unlike anything seen in generations.”
Roth told The Epoch Times that the submission of this resolution was triggered by a certain action taken by the Chinese Consulate.
He received two emails from an official at the Chinese Consulate in Chicago.
The emails included a resolution stating that Wisconsin supported the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to fight the spread of the infection.
This resolution had been drafted by the consulate itself, and it asked that it be passed by the state legislature.
When Roth’s staff printed out the first email, dated February 26, and handed it to him, he saw that it had been sent from a Hotmail account and dismissed it as fake.
“I disregarded it and threw it away,” Roth said.
However, when the second email came on March 10, Roth had his staff verify the email address.
After checking with state government sources, Roth’s staff confirmed that the email had really been sent from the consulate.
Roth was told that staff of the Chinese Consulate routinely use personal email accounts.
“I was truly angry.
At that time, the virus had already begun spreading in America, and we were busy preparing.
And we realized that we had been deceived,” Roth said.
“I went beyond irritation and felt intense anger.”
Needless to say, that is the perfectly natural feeling of a decent human being.
Yet from NHK and the other television stations, even now, not a single word of anger toward China has been broadcast.
On the contrary, they are broadcasting only ridiculous criticism of the Japanese government, saying things such as “cash payments are too slow.”
They act as if they have forgotten that when the government, in a sense anticipating even such a situation, tried to shift to the My Number Card system, they joined opposition-party politicians in opposing it, saying that it was a problem under the Personal Information Protection Law and so forth.
There are few people as irresponsible, malicious, and poor in quality as those in television and newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun.
He wrote just one word to the consulate: “Crazy.”
“And I put my own name on it and sent the email back,” Roth said.
The consulate official replied again and expressed shock at Roth’s email, but Roth did not respond.
Several days later, Roth decided to take further action.
He told his staff, “We are going to introduce and pass a resolution concerning China.
It just will not be the kind of resolution China wants.”
The Chinese Consulate in Chicago was also asked for comment, but no response was obtained.
Resolution emphasizes “how the Chinese Communist Party deceived the world.”
According to Roth, the resolution clearly states, one by one, “how the Chinese Communist Party deceived the world” about the spread of the infection.
It also states that the Chinese Consulate tried to influence Roth, and this is emphasized in bold, italics, and underlining.
“The Chinese Consulate asked the president of the Wisconsin State Senate to pass a resolution drafted by the Chinese Consulate.
The resolution contains propaganda and falsehoods such as, ‘China, with high transparency, quickly shared important information about the virus with the WHO and the international community, thereby creating opportunities and time for other countries to respond early.’”
Chinese authorities first reported the outbreak in Wuhan on December 31, 2019, but the South China Morning Post, an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, cited government records and reported that authorities had already identified the first patient in November 2019.
Authorities silenced and reprimanded doctors who tried to warn about the outbreak in late December.
Authorities also admitted human-to-human transmission on January 20, but there is evidence showing that they knew of human-to-human transmission of the virus well before that.
The Chinese Communist Party also obstructed research on the virus.
According to reporting by the Chinese financial magazine Caixin, on January 1, health authorities in Hubei Province instructed genome companies to stop testing virus samples and destroy all existing samples.
“The only opportunity they gave the world was the opportunity for this virus to spread around the world and become a pandemic,” Roth said.
The resolution also states that the Wisconsin State Senate “stands with the people of China.”
This shows Roth’s position of distinguishing between the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party.
“I think the Chinese people are wonderful and great people,” Roth said.
“They have simply been held hostage by this brutal and repressive regime for the past 70 years.”
A repressive regime.
This resolution also refers to the extensive human rights violations of the Chinese Communist regime, including persecution of Tibetans, detention of Uyghur Muslims, and forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners.
“When you look at forced abortions, sterilizations, and organ harvesting, you can see that the Chinese Communist Party is nothing more than an extremely repressive and brutal regime,” he said.
For that reason, Roth argued that Wisconsin should not give legitimacy to the Chinese Communist Party by passing the resolution proposed by the Chinese Consulate.
If the resolution passed, the Chinese Communist Party would use it for domestic propaganda activities.
“It is extremely important that Wisconsin not yield to the Chinese Communist Party’s request, and that governments throughout the world not yield,” Roth said.
“Because, as far as I know, it would give legitimacy to the government that has committed the worst human rights abuses among modern states.”
In Wisconsin, as in the majority of U.S. states, a stay-at-home order has been issued as part of nationwide efforts to stop the spread of infection.
Roth said he wants the people of Wisconsin to know that “the reason you cannot leave your homes now, the reason your children cannot go to school, and the reason your spouses, relatives, and friends have lost their jobs, is that the Chinese Communist Party lied to the world.”
However, Roth also expressed hope that this crisis would bring an opportunity to the Chinese people by making them aware of the Chinese Communist Party’s cover-up.
“I hope this will become the trigger for bringing down the Chinese Communist Party and for the Chinese people to rise again.”
The Epoch Times Japan Web Editorial Department.
Readers will be astonished that President Roth’s remarks are exactly the same as my arguments.