Posted on 05/23/2020 1:12:42 PM PDT by absalom01
China failed to contain the coronavirus in its early days. In fact, Beijing did not quickly notify and work with international bodies like the World Health Organization and the rest of the international community. Had China acted it could have prevented a local outbreak in Hubei province from becoming a global pandemic. All of this shows that despite its outsize power and influence on the global stage, Beijing is not a responsible player. And now America finds itself with remarkably little power to do anything about it.
For three decades, Americans have allowed themselves to become increasingly economically dependent on China, first as the latter-day “workshop of the World,” then as the world’s greatest creditor. Over the last couple of years, the United States has also started becoming technologically dependent on China: the main example of this being the roll-out of 5G wireless technology, where the West has lagged significantly behind Chinese companies in the development and deployment of this next-generation tech. In addition, European countries that wished to start deploying the new networks had to look to China to source the necessary equipment, rather than the United States—with all the security issues that entails.
And this is only the beginning. China is already racing ahead in renewable energy, quantum communications technologies and artificial intelligence. It will soon do the same for bio-sciences, energy storage, material sciences and others. In the future, if America and other democracies want access to all the latest developments in these essential technologies, they will be expected to kowtow to the authoritarian oligarchy at the top of the Chinese Communist Party —just as developing countries who rely on Chinese investment and debt today must do.
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All that cheap labor wasn’t all that cheap after all, was it?
How long will it take after the pandemic before this is forgotten?
As long as Trump is in office it won’t be forgotten. Given the current animosity in the US toward China, that alone would be enough to reelect him.
Bumper stickers I would like to see.
I SURVIVED THE CHICOM PANDEMIC HOAX OF 2020
DEMOCRATS WANT TO SELL YOU TO CHINA
CHINA WANTS YOU TO VOTE DEMOCRAT
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National Distancing.
To start all medical drugs/supplies/equipment should be made in America and no ownership by foreign countries of those.
Moratorium on all ChiCom goods until effective disease inspection processes are in place and operational.
Same for people travel.
Covid 20 Covid21a are out there now that the ChiComs can use such things to batter our economy.
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No kidding. Ask Italy.
They brought in THOUSANDS of cheap Chinese labor to work in their industries. The Chinese came...and brought the covid-19 them.
I only heard the story ONCE then it was pulled off the air. Below is the sob story LIE from the media.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/25/as-if-we-were-the-disease-coronavirus-brings-prejudice-for-italys-chinese-workers
All of the last 5 or 6 viruses came from China. It should be evident to even the dumbest person on earth that all of these have been the result of military experimentation with a cover story gulped up by the masses hook line and sinker.
It would not be the first time 3 letter alphabet organizations have lied to us particularly those in our own government!
Some of us always knew this.
If Trump loses, November 4th.
Exactly, never was rocket science, just common sense.
I for one was unaware that there is not a single commercial penicillin fermenter left in the US.
This needs to be a Manhattan-project level national priority to fix.
Throughout history, pandemics have flown from central China.
This time, the Chinese state deliberately spread the disease to the rest of the world for their own economic and geopolitical reasons.
We can’t give them a second chance at this.
Fron a previous thread....this is the one good thing to come out of the lockdown.
We have the correct president in charge. I’m glad Mr. Trump is at the helm. No, he’s not perfect, but about as close as we can get. Godspeed Mr. Trump. Get us away from China as fast as we can.
Just one of many examples!
Exactly, never was rocket science, just common sense.
And yes, just common sense - but wave a few dollars in certain faces, and common sense becomes very rare!
“Bring The Manufacturing Back Home”
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