Posted on 08/28/2020 10:36:16 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
China may restrict American access to medical supplies in retaliation for intensifying U.S. regulations on Huawei, according to a prominent economist and Chinese Communist Party adviser.
“For vitamins and antibiotics, more than 90% of their raw materials are produced in China,” Tsinghua University finance professor Li Daokui said in response to new regulations targeting the flagship telecommunications company. “The U.S. will definitely not be able to produce them in the short term.”
Li’s comments evoke the thinly veiled threats that state-run media issued earlier this year as international anger raged over China’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic in the initial days of the crisis. He spoke after Commerce Department officials unveiled new regulations designed to make it more difficult for Huawei to obtain electronic supplies derived from U.S. technology, in keeping with American warnings that the telecommunications giant is a platform for Chinese spy services.
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Blackmail.
Weve got to pull the Minutemen out of the silos eventually anyway, to replace them with new generation ICBMs, so might as well save a lot of work and just launch them. It would be kind of like what every young boy of my generation did when you discovered unused fireworks: You took all of the models youd built that were no longer your favorites, put fireworks in them, and blew them up.
Right?
As a senior I learned the power a full EMBARGO did to a country in HS.
Wouldn’t it be fun if Taiwan were to develop a nuke!
It’s ok to foul out late in the fourth quarter. That’s the American way
Rules don’t matter, only winning matters. It’s the American way
The American cities are all fouling out late in the fourth. It’s just the way the game is played. It’s the American way
Good. We need to make those things here any way.
The first torpedo launched in anger will cause that.
5 years? No way. They built a BMW car factory from scratch in Mexico in 6 months.
We lost $4T in the last 6 months because of China. Any realized “savings” from offshoring and “cheap” imports has long since been washed away.
What percentage tools, materials and widgets used in building the factory were made in China?
Dear gloBULList. Your post makes no sense.
Who gives a sh!t. We can make space ships and F-18s we can tool up for anything. Go away, you sound like a ChiCom lover.
So China threatens medical genocide over a bunch of stupid cell phone and 5g wifi equipment?
Time to go our own way in terms of producing medical supplies!
The globalists should take this as a hard lesson....only America was ever willing to meet halfway with total globalized free trade. China and European nations were always saying “no!” to American nationalism in trade while we were expected to say “yes!” to theirs.
The world is not ready for global government as too many self interested parties with corrupted souls are vying to be at the top of the heap should such a situation were ever to occur.
Think about it....... Playing dirty
That is fouling out late in the fourth quarter. Except in America, it is the way the game is played.
China is fouling out while losing late in the game
Thanks for the ping. It’s the kind of thing that makes sense from a big picture standpoint. Nonetheless, people in Chinese pharma won’t be thrilled at being offered up as sacrificial lambs to keep Huawei in clover. In the distant past, people in various commercial sectors have had very violent reactions to having their livelihoods endangered by the powers-that-be. One even spawned an uprising that inspired one of China’s Four Classic Novels.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_La
According to a Harvard monograph I read decades ago, Fang La was a lacquer merchant whose trade was suppressed, turned to salt smuggling and finally armed revolt.
No problem
You are going to be short on food this winter.
Damn shame if we couldn’t help out and your people revolt...
Chinas threats are as genuine as every thing else they make
Playing dirty has consequences when everyone else is angry and playing smart. In the short term China’s intransigence is really good news for India. The worse China handles this the more PM Modi smiles. In the long run it benefits the U.S. drug industry and every other country who realize dependence on China is too much of a risk.
Hong Kong underground, too.
The U.S. will definitely not be able to produce them in the short term.
Somebody forward that to Pres. Trump, he loves a good joke.
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