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 countrys 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 ...
That’s fine.
I’d rather face trail than live like a b.tch.
I’m getting sick of this whole damn situation.
Don’t much like being told what to do or where to go or not to go
Just following the plan.
Chinese quality.
Doesnt the Democrat media see that their cheerleading for China against the USA is driving up the Presidents approval numbers, while theirs are the worst they have ever been?
“Nothing But Communists” is right ... I think that accurate little gag has been floating around since Reagan was president.
Having been in the news biz for 25 years, I can tell you that if there’s anything I hate more than “gotcha” journalism it’s butt-kissy journalism.
Kissing Chicom butt is even more reprehensible than unfair attacks on Trump, if for no other reason than Trump can take it and dish it out, with interest.
But some otherwise conservative folks are likely to be taken in by Chinese propaganda, if for no other reason than Asians tend to be fairly productive and peaceable immigrants.
Not that I want any more after this debacle ... It may be time to bring back the “Yellow Peril,” at least long enough to make sure we’re not letting in Chicom spies.
The American version of Holger Danske is slowly getting up.
That is a great simile
Exactly. It’s like setting fire to a village and then offering to send in fire suppression equipment.
Total freakin’ bull stuff.
This world leader has brought the world yearly scourges going back decades.
Not only the yearly seasonal flu that takes tens of thousands
of US lives, but special viruses that take out tens of
thousands more.
This is nothing but disinformation.
FAKE NEWS 237,429,818,209
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. Just like those test kits the Chinese sent to the Czech republic? With an 80% failure rate....
NBC = Notably Broadcasting Communism
To the ChiCom asslickers at NBC:
Certain people in Silicon Valley could FART and spend $20 million, and ‘promises’ aren’t the same as action. You will find the ‘massive donations’ will be more in the form of bribes to politicos in Africa to increase Chinese political control to help sell out those countries to the commies.
Donating to the WHO by ChiComs is like Hillary Clinton donating to the Clinton Foundation ...
Then the usual Trump bashing starts. The NBC apparatchiks complain that Trump asks (’soliciting’) for medical equipment FROM South Korea - which is not strange as ALOT of medical equipment is manufactured there.
The reality is : China is largely culpable and has had far more casualties in this Pandemic, most of which have been hidden ‘to save face’ (possibly literally for politicos who mishandled things - as in losing their heads and exposed China as tyrannical and inept). China, of course, can lose millions and sweep them under the bamboo rug, AND if all else fails ‘rule at the point of a gun’, as they frequently done in their history.
Just remember who these NBC ‘useful idiots’ are, so they one day deservedly can be given the ‘heave-ho’ onto ‘the ash heap of history’ — like their idols the ChiComs will eventually be.
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