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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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.
ROLOLLL...like that is going to happen
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.
fits some facts -> seems to fit some facts
Good luck with that
Just cancel bonds they are holding.
I got one. An hour later I wanted another one!
Why, did the first one bounce? 😁
This is really stupid!
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.
It can be done. Chinese government-owned businesses have plenty of assets within our jurisdiction.
L8r
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
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?
Watch this, barf alert at 2:05
https://youtu.be/TPpoJGYlW54
Watch this, barf alert at 2:05
https://youtu.be/TPpoJGYlW54
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.
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.
like the USA arrest its corrupt politicians...yea right..lol
and nothing ever happens
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