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CHINA IS LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR COVID-19 DAMAGE AND CLAIMS COULD BE IN THE TRILLIONS
warontherocks ^ | 23 Mar 20 | JAMES KRASKA

Posted on 03/25/2020 9:12:43 PM PDT by hapnHal

As the novel coronavirus incubated in Wuhan from mid-December to mid-January, the Chinese state made evidently intentional misrepresentations to its people concerning the outbreak, providing false assurances to the population preceding the approach of the Lunar New Year celebrations on Jan. 25.

In mid-December, an outbreak of a novel influenza-like illness was traced to workers and customers of the city’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which contained exotic and wild animal species. On Dec. 26, multiple Chinese news outlets released reports of an anonymous laboratory technician who made a startling discovery: The sickness was caused by a new coronavirus that was 87 percent similar to SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, sounded the alarm in an online chatroom on Dec. 30.

That night, Wuhan public health authorities solicited information on the emergence of a “pneumonia of unclear cause,” but omitted Li’s discussion about SARS or a novel coronavirus. Li and other medical professionals who tried to disclose the emergence of the virus were suppressed or jailed by the regime. On Jan. 1, the state-run Xinhua News Agency warned, “The police call on all netizens to not fabricate rumors, not spread rumors, not believe rumors.” Four days after Li’s chatroom discussion, officers of the Public Security Bureau forced him to sign a letter acknowledging he had made “false comments,” and that his revelations had “severely disturbed the social order.”

Li, who has become something of an underground folk hero in China against chicanery by state officials, ultimately died of the disease. China silenced other doctors raising the alarm, minimizing the danger to the public even as they were bewildered and overwhelmed. State media suppressed information about the virus.

Although authorities closed the Wuhan “wet market” at the epicenter of the contagion, they did not take further steps to stop the wildlife trade.

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To: hapnHal

You’ll never collect.

1) They’re communists.

2) They’ve bankrolled much of the U.S. debt and others around the world.

You don’t want them calling in their chits right at the moment. Don’t even tempt them.


41 posted on 03/25/2020 10:31:33 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: Revel

ROLOLLL...like that is going to happen


42 posted on 03/25/2020 10:33:55 PM PDT by Osage Orange (FWIW)
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To: jcon40

we’re already much nicer to the chinese than they are to us (or so it is my casual impression).

evening out the treatment would imho net us at least some $$$.

we could at least consider giving them a surgically designed haircut. if they want to take it further, then tit for tat, and compensate US companies for losses.

my impression is that there are many, many empty office buildings in the USA that are held by PRC chinese interests. The idea is that vacant office buildings are a safer long term investment than anything available to a corrupt PRC official than anything in his own country.

If you happen to be in a reasonably built up area, then you can look around your local neighborhood for mysterious and often very large and/or very new vacant office buildings with no “for rent” signs on them and no contact info posted. If they’re not owned by PRC officials, then you tell me what’s up with those and then we’ll both know. If I’m correct then a practical problem might be that a certain percentage of them are recycled back to US politicians under the table in below market resales, etc.

We buy lots of stuff from PRC owned companies, with US $$$. They can stuff it under their mattresses and suffer from currency inflation, they can import luxury goods (ok, sometimes they do this), and/or they can legally use it to buy US assets (land/buildings). I can’t prove it but it fits some facts as I know them.


43 posted on 03/25/2020 10:36:54 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: SteveH

fits some facts -> seems to fit some facts


44 posted on 03/25/2020 10:38:21 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: hapnHal

Good luck with that


45 posted on 03/25/2020 10:47:10 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: jcon40
"So we’re waiting for Hillary to be held accountable"


46 posted on 03/25/2020 10:50:43 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Peter ODonnell

Just cancel bonds they are holding.


47 posted on 03/25/2020 11:00:20 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: TigersEye
#ChineseChecksInTheMail#

I got one. An hour later I wanted another one!

Why, did the first one bounce? 😁

48 posted on 03/25/2020 11:04:07 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer, 2/3 of the way through USAF pilot training. One more aircraft to fly)
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To: hapnHal

This is really stupid!


49 posted on 03/25/2020 11:11:14 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: hapnHal

Can’t sue them in our courts because of the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act. But the FSIA can (and should be) be amended to allow it just like we did with Saudi Arabia not too long ago.


50 posted on 03/25/2020 11:16:20 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It can be done. Chinese government-owned businesses have plenty of assets within our jurisdiction.


51 posted on 03/25/2020 11:18:14 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: hapnHal

L8r


52 posted on 03/25/2020 11:38:35 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

They either pay or all countries refuse to pay back loans.

China complies, or the world switches over to India, Malaysia, etc, for cheap goods.

Oh, and China must also immediately become a democracy, too


53 posted on 03/25/2020 11:49:19 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: All

If that became possible we should make the switch anyway. Send China the message that the world wants nothing to do with their dictatorship, and ban them from all sporting and cultural events. They are actually worse than the Soviet Union (except perhaps in the worst parts of the Stalinist era) and yet we treat them as if they are just a slightly leftist version of South Korea or Japan. Enough is enough, we have gone way too far down the road of accommodation, and seen almost nothing in return. Now this — what else do people need to see?


54 posted on 03/26/2020 12:28:33 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell ("These measures are voluntary, unless you choose to do otherwise. Then we can enforce them." (okay))
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To: hapnHal
Wanna see what a Chinese “wet market” is?

Watch this, barf alert at 2:05

https://youtu.be/TPpoJGYlW54

55 posted on 03/26/2020 12:32:09 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: hapnHal; All
Wanna see what a Chinese “wet market” is?

Watch this, barf alert at 2:05

https://youtu.be/TPpoJGYlW54

56 posted on 03/26/2020 12:32:43 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Revel; All

Why anyone would want to go to China is beyond me. Even the native born Chinese don’t like it there. That’s why millions migrate to the US.


57 posted on 03/26/2020 12:35:41 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

If they want food shipments they will pay.

Trump and Bolsonaro together control a lot of food production.

Realistically China cannot pay the debt it has accrued but could be kept in line using food as leverage. Trump is the king of leverage.


58 posted on 03/26/2020 1:05:36 AM PDT by Bobalu (We are going to witness such a circus between now and Nov that we should have to buy tickets)
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To: bagster

like the USA arrest its corrupt politicians...yea right..lol


59 posted on 03/26/2020 2:51:06 AM PDT by aces (and)
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To: lee martell

and nothing ever happens


60 posted on 03/26/2020 2:58:02 AM PDT by aces (and)
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