Posted on 04/05/2020 6:00:40 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Leading US manufacturers of medical safety gear told the White House that China prohibited them from exporting their products from the country as the coronavirus pandemic mounted — even as Beijing was trying to “corner the world market” in personal protective equipment, The Post has learned.
Now, the Trump administration is weighing legal action against China over its alleged actions, a lawyer for President Trump said Sunday.
“In criminal law, compare this to the levels that we have for murder,” said Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Now we’re talking!
Go Trump, give ‘em hell.
How is what China did different from how we are prohibiting 3M from exporting products?
3M is American.
We didn’t “pick our own cotton.”
We don’t “make our own toys.”
When will we learn?
Make America Greater. Bring manufacturing back home.
MAIA
Not a lawyer but, I believe the distinction is, China was preventing American companies from sending PPE to the USA.
Just manufacture the crap out of the stuff instead.
Make it an essential industry.
I think the ultimate game plan here is to bring some sort of “class action” (with the “class” in this case being multiple countries impacted by COVID-19) against China in criminal court for lying about when COVID-19 started, how it started, how bad it got how quickly AND taking action to corner the market on medical supplies to use against the virus.
There is an interesting article about this in The Sydney Morning Herald, but articles from it are not allowed (by TSMH) here. If I didn’t need to cut my late night FR meanderings short and get back to getting a decent amount of sleep, I would try to find another publication that discusses the idea well.
BOYCOTT CHINA
Yeah...well they'll need to prove that now.
Wait, we voluntarily surrender our manufacturing to Communists and now we are going to sue them from supplying thier enemies? WTF?
Sounds like time for the company to come home.
MAMA
Make America Manufacture Again
China did this to the world, and needs to be made to pay a heavy price.
But, we’re in the middle of dealing with this mess, and our energies are properly directed at saving as many lives as we can. That effort won’t last forever, and soon, sooner than the CCP may realize, the world will turn its attention to how the CCP released this on the world.
There will be increasingly creative approaches to taking this out of the CCP’s hide, as people come to realize that this was nothing less than an act of war on the CCP’s part.
That’s when they will get even more dangerous, when the wolf is at their door.
3M makes a ton of stuff in China.
Its starting to sound pathetic. American manufacturers go to China for cheap labor (and frankly are also pushed out by leftists, statists and their love for taxes, lawsuits and regulation) and in 20 years, when everything is gone, we whine about what happened.
absalom01 wrote:
“China did this to the world, and needs to be made to pay a heavy price.
But, we’re in the middle of dealing with this mess, and our energies are properly directed at saving as many lives as we can. That effort won’t last forever, and soon, sooner than the CCP may realize, the world will turn its attention to how the CCP released this on the world.
There will be increasingly creative approaches to taking this out of the CCP’s hide, as people come to realize that this was nothing less than an act of war on the CCP’s part.
That’s when they will get even more dangerous, when the wolf is at their door.”
Yup, a rat/wild animal is most dangerous when cornered.
Tweny years ago, when I signed on to FR, there were plenty of people that wanted to bring manufacturing back to the United States. NAFTA had been signed many years earlier (sending jobs to Mexico which, ironically, did nothing to stem illegal immigration) and offloading manufacturing to Asia has been a decades-old problem.
We’re living through one of the scenarios people warned politicians about. Maybe politicians will wake up to the need to have essential manufacturing, at the very least, brought back to the United States. I think we should bring it all back. Once upon a time we did and had tariffs to boot.
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