Posted on 04/05/2020 4:21:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Beijing (AFP) – China has sold nearly four billion masks to foreign countries since March, officials said Sunday, as they tried to stem widespread fears over the quality of medical exports.
Despite Chinese cases dwindling, Beijing has encouraged factories to increase production of medical supplies as the pandemic kills over 60,000 globally and parts of the world face a protective equipment shortage.
China has exported 3.86 billion masks, 37.5 million pieces of protective clothing, 16,000 ventilators and 2.84 million COVID-19 testing kits since March 1, customs official Jin Hai said, with orders to more than 50 countries.
She added the country’s medical supply exports were valued at 10.2 billion yuan ($1.4 billion).
However numerous nations — including the Netherlands, the Philippines, Croatia, Turkey and Spain — have complained about substandard or faulty medical products shipped from China.
Last week, the Dutch government recalled 600,000 masks out of a Chinese shipment of 1.3 million that did not meet quality standards.
China said the manufacturer “stated clearly that (the masks) are non-surgical.”
Spain also rejected thousands of rapid test kits sent by an unauthorised Chinese company after it found that they were unreliable last week.
Chinese officials hit back on Sunday at media reports over defective medical supplies, saying that they “did not reflect the full facts”.
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Cha-ching!
(Was that racist?)
Shame when this is all said and done if that country didn’t exist anymore. Where is Slim Pickens when you need him?
I would not be surprised if a good portion of those masks are the tons that were donated from here TO china
I see what you did there. I like how you think. I’ll be keeping an eye on you.
So it was all a plan to corner the mask market.
“Where is Slim Pickens when you need him?”
Where is Curtis LeMay?
China starts the fire and sells us the buckets of water to put it out. Thanks China!
....... Wonder how many of those are infected??
It is our own fault for abandoning economic sovereignty and allowing critical good to be manufactured abroad. We don’t just need tariffs, we need to ban the importation of critical medical and defense supplies.
Infected blankets—circa 1870’s.
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“We don’t just need tariffs, we need to ban the importation of critical medical and defense supplies”
But to the keep the tariff, the US based factory must be compelled to make the stuff with at least the same quality as the blocked product.
We arent going to go back to paying more for shiitee qualitee just cuz its made here. Manufacturing needs to step up and build the best.
Paying a bit more for US made products makes sense in the aggregate. Workers here get paid. The coffee shop near the factory gets business. The auto mechanic gets business. The suppliers are employed. The trucjers deliver. . . and the virtuous velocity of money takes off.
And how many are crap??
Bump!
You are right, there are many pitfalls when the govt intervenes to protect domestic industry. You need domestic competition to keep quality and prices from being a problem.
Pre-infected?
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