Posted on 03/13/2020 4:19:09 AM PDT by wbarmy
Now that the number of new people infected with the coronavirus in China is slowing, the country's Communist Party is ratcheting up threats against the West, with a particularly nasty warning about access to life-saving drugs aimed at the United States.
In an article in Xinhua, the state-run media agency that's largely considered the mouthpiece of the party, Beijing bragged about its handling of COVID-19, a virus that originated in Wuhan and has spread quickly around the world, killing nearly 5,000 people and infecting thousands more. The article also claimed that China could impose pharmaceutical export controls which would plunge America into "the mighty sea of coronavirus."
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But how sure can we be that all these people really knew what they were doing...to the point where they were intentionally committing treason?
I completely understand your point about the communist party - it’s a VERY good one. Maybe they OUGHT to have known...but did they really? Isn’t that hard to tell? I suggest that in hindsight it can become much easier to condemn them than perhaps if things had turned out differently...because each individual might not have realized how they were contributing to the whole. And selfishness often makes for blindness.
So, while I’m in agreement with you collaborating with communists should not be done, I’m not in agreement with you that all these citizens are worthy of death. I wouldn’t mind seeing as much evidence brought forward in court, as much as might be obtainable.
You do make a VERY good point.
Respectfully,
WE've known for a long time how inhuman the Communists are. The Soviet Union and gulags, Pol Pot, the Chicoms, North Korea, Albania.
I cannot accept nor believe for an instant, that ...well, almost anything that was done (particularly giving them supercomputers and ICBM guidance technology) ; or giving them our industrial secrets including (as I wrote 15 years ago or so) letting them make our computer chips (see Huwaei and telecommunications); or letting them make ~90% of our antibiotics; etc. etc.
can have been done in good faith.
The original approach, in a limited fashion, seeking a counterweight to the Soviet Union, I can ...follow, even if I disagree.
But the chair of the Chemistry Dept. at freaking HARVARD (as in, yes, the REAL Harvard, of Harvard, Yale, Princeton fame)...was arrested for taking $50k / month under the table from Red China, accepting (I think) a million and a half for helping them set up a biological / chemical research center (guess where? Yes, Wuhan. Yes, *that* Wuhan)...and appointing two PLA colonels to positions at Harvard?
And Sen. Dianne Feinstein's *driver* for 20 years was a Chicom spy? Wake up and smell the Panda!
mbj wrote:
“They are working very hard (especially online) to try to pin this on us (as in accusing the US army of having planted the Wuhan virus over there to start the initial infections). If they can provide hard enough spin, it just might provide their sympathizers with enough diplomatic cover to continue with impunity.”
The State Dept hauled the Chinese envoy in over this (h/t a little elbow grease)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3824162/posts?page=223#223
Lower labor costs certainly, but these drugs haven’t been cheaper for sick Americans. Sometimes, in dark moments of despair, and only temporarily, I think the socialists have a point.
Too many greedy American corporations have NOT passed on much, if anything, in savings to customers when they moved their manufacturing operations to cr@phole countries. And the drug manufacturers are the worst of the worst.
When I read that headline I think that this is something Nancy Pelosi would say.
If our population is significantly harmed via a biohazard incident from China, we would nuke them. This is a given.
“America’s super-bugs are attacking the People! Would you like to know more?”
(Starship Troopers movie reference...)
Please. Trump surpasses them all.
They were all caretakers. Bush was a good and decent man, and unlike Biden, didn’t steal from us.
Now that the number of new people infected with the coronavirus in China is slowing, the country’s Communist Party is ratcheting up threats against the West, with a particularly nasty warning about access to life-saving drugs aimed at the United States.
WORDS THAT CAN LEAD TO ATTACK BY US>
Can we list all the elected officials with personal dealings with china
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