Posted on 03/26/2020 11:15:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With Italy in dire need of medical equipment, an economic superpower stepped in to help.
No, not the United States.
It was China.
Beijing last week promised Rome a thousand ventilators and 2 million masks, part of a global outreach effort that includes massive donations across Africa and a $20 million gift to the World Health Organization earmarked to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, proposed slashing the U.S. contribution to the WHO last month and has said very little about international cooperation to stop the spread. Instead of providing aid abroad, Trump has been soliciting it. According to a readout by the South Korean government, Trump on Tuesday asked that country’s president if he could provide medical equipment to the U.S.
It was an extraordinary request from a U.S. president and a jarring contrast to the role America usually plays in a global crisis. Meanwhile, international observers have watched as American governors have squabbled with the president over whether he is properly managing the response in his own country.
As those scenes play out daily, China senses a moment of opportunity to portray itself as a powerful and competent player on the world stage, former officials and experts told NBC News.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
I, for one, welcome our new Overlords.
Good grief
I can’t even get in to type the words that I feel about NBC and it’s idiot “reporters”
They are a global leader....at weaponizing and spreading pandemic-related viruses! Make them PAY!
Why don’t we nuke them :0)
Ludicrous nonsense.
Wow. These people are sick. Cheering on the very source of the Coronavirus world pandemic and calling them the world leaders. Right. Got it, NBC.
Another propaganda piece by the Chinese Government
Yes, nbc. China has just been great during this whole thing
Heil Communusm
Funny how NBC conveniently fails to mention that China provided over 180,000 Covid-19 test kits to Italy of which 80% were faulty. That’s some global leadership.
China - giving the human race’s collective immune system a good workout since the dawn of time.
Communist Propaganda..from the same people who accused Trump of being a Russian puppet..here is the supposed mainstream media of America, PRAISING Communist China, who gave us this virus, we are suffering because of THEM and here is the media praising Communism
Poison the world
Then step in and offer to help the dying
What a super power
And those cuck European eloi are praising the morlocks
The media should pretend Russia gave us this virus and watch their reaction
Hey- a new tagline!
Do it here in a letter or postcard:
NBC Corporate Office Headquarters. NBCUniversal Media, LLC. 30 Rockfeller Plaza. New York, NY 10112 USA. Corporate Phone Number: 1-212-664-4444.
Say hi to Peter Alecander.
This is like a rapist throwing a handkerchief in top of his victim and telling her “to clean herself up”.
China leads nothing. What a nasty article!
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