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China hints at denying America drugs
Fox News ^ | 3/13/2020 | Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

Posted on 03/13/2020 4:19:09 AM PDT by wbarmy

Now that the number of new people infected with the coronavirus in China is slowing, the country's Communist Party is ratcheting up threats against the West, with a particularly nasty warning about access to life-saving drugs aimed at the United States.

In an article in Xinhua, the state-run media agency that's largely considered the mouthpiece of the party, Beijing bragged about its handling of COVID-19, a virus that originated in Wuhan and has spread quickly around the world, killing nearly 5,000 people and infecting thousands more. The article also claimed that China could impose pharmaceutical export controls which would plunge America into "the mighty sea of coronavirus."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: china; chinavstheworld; coronavirus; covid19; drugs; madeinchina; redchina; supplylines; trumpasia; wuhanvirus
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To: Red Badger
If the President delivers this EO you can just hear the screeching from Pelosi and her house of lemmings about him being an isolationist. Way past time to practice isolation and quarantine from the Chinese IMO.

Medicine Mfg EO

161 posted on 03/13/2020 8:12:22 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: redcatcherb412

Trump needs to go dictator. He’s been too wishy-washy.

At some point you have to be the boss and not just defer to others.


162 posted on 03/13/2020 8:14:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Black Agnes
Too many in DC depend on the chicoms paychecks.

Such arrangements require lack of awareness. The supply chain problems bolstered by open threats of withholding manufactured supplies has blown up that lack of transparency.

163 posted on 03/13/2020 8:15:43 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Unfortunately we’re on the fuzzy side of that lollipop just now.

I would definitely support financial investigations into the officials who supported the tax breaks enabling (nay, profiting) companies to move their production to China.


164 posted on 03/13/2020 8:18:28 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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Did the US too much in the way of assistance re COVID-19? Is that it, you ungrateful bastards?

FO


165 posted on 03/13/2020 8:23:45 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Black Agnes

That’s never going to happen. Changes in policy and what’s considered “acceptable” are the only outcomes to expect. You should know by now that nobody goes to jail or is even fined.


166 posted on 03/13/2020 8:27:23 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: yldstrk

all this bullshit about China being cheaper and it paying off for consumers is nonsense. Have you seen the cost of RX?


167 posted on 03/13/2020 8:34:39 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Ikeon

nothing coming from China is inexpensive, cheap to make and the globalists billionaires pocket the profit and we still pay high costs of cheap crap imported from China.


168 posted on 03/13/2020 8:36:30 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: cba123

TOTALLY agree...and

NEVER FORGET .... Let them rot!


169 posted on 03/13/2020 8:39:31 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS)
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To: Future Snake Eater

I know, right?

DC is like a morality/ethics free zone.


170 posted on 03/13/2020 8:42:44 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Ikeon

Right.

Did you notice drugs getting cheap when we moved production to china?

Ya, me neither.

Where’d the money go?


171 posted on 03/13/2020 8:43:23 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: enumerated

“trading in the free market is incentivized by profit, by self interest”.

I agree with you but think that the negative effects of totally free trade don’t always represent a form of cheating.

If a company makes such an excellent product that it has no competitors, is it cheating if it charges a lot for their product?

There are countless situations that lead to the conclusion that the government has to be a referee.

Two problems are at the forefront now: we’re dependent on China for some essentials, and other countries with lower standards of hygiene mingle with Americans or vice versa and Americans get their sicknesses.


172 posted on 03/13/2020 8:51:17 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: duckman
That’s all he said at his presser when he was asked the very same question.

After COVID-19 and if there are drug shortages, he's going to be measured in part by that progress.

173 posted on 03/13/2020 9:01:42 AM PDT by Fury
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To: mewzilla

BTTT.


174 posted on 03/13/2020 9:04:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: wbarmy

“China hints at denying America drugs”

I hope they do it and then I hope the President cuts of all trade with the Chinkcom government!!!


175 posted on 03/13/2020 9:10:36 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: DoodleDawg
And if those medicines aren't manufactured here? Will the government tell people they have to die? What control does that have over private insurance companies?

I am ROFL.

Those who opine about the economy and incentives and actions in regard to companies should at least have some demonstrable knowledge. You failed, badly.

I don't know if there's any point in trying to explain why I'm right, and you're wrong. Not just because you have nonsensical answers...but you don't even know what questions to ask.

176 posted on 03/13/2020 9:15:45 AM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: wbarmy

Let’s ramp up production here big tax breaks and incentives


177 posted on 03/13/2020 9:17:29 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: mewzilla
I hope Rush Limbaugh talks about this today...

__________

I'm going to go listen now....

178 posted on 03/13/2020 9:38:24 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: wbarmy

This is blackmail.

They will regret messing with us when we have a fully American president.


179 posted on 03/13/2020 10:02:52 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: wbarmy

China is using medicine as a weapon.

If they will withhold them, they will poison them.

We need to replace China with Mexico or India and let the Chicoms collapse.


180 posted on 03/13/2020 10:04:49 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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