Posted on 04/18/2020 9:07:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that he would re-evaluate the United States’s relationship with China after the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.
“Our relationship with China was good until they did this. Look, we just made a trade deal with China to buy $250 billion a year our products, $40 to $50 billion from the farmers. Then all of a sudden you heard about this,” he told the press during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing.
“The question was asked: Would you be angry at China? The answer might be a very well resounding ‘Yes.’
“But it depends. Was it a mistake that got out of control? Or was it done deliberately? In either event, they should have let us go in.
“We asked to go in very early and they would not let us in,” Trump said.
It’s not clear if Trump was referring to the the origin of the CCP virus or the regime’s lack of transparency about infections and deaths.
There are theories circulating that the virus may be connected to a biologic laboratory in Wuhan—the epicenter of the outbreak.
The United States is not the only country that has suggested it will review its relationship with the Chinese communist regime.
On Thursday, the UK foreign secretary and acting Prime Minister Dominic Raab said that the Britain’s relationship with Beijing will no longer be “business as usual” after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
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Suggests. Threatens. Considers. Just f*cking do it already. Getting tired of this 86D crap with regards to China.
“But it depends. Was it a mistake that got out of control? Or was it done deliberately?”
Was it a stupid, but innocent, lab tech mistake or state sponsored global bio terror? Is that what the president is saying?
Starve em out.
The start was probably a lab error. The spread outside of china Was probably intentional.
The deceit was all on purpose.
Also, until that happens, all Chinese “students”, “researchers”, and “educators” should be expelled from the U.S., and even Chinese “tourists” should be heavily scrutinized. Most, if not all, are acting as agents of the Chinese Communist party. Seize China’s U.S. assets, expel their spies, and arm our allies to encircle them (Japan, South Korea, and India).
Agreed.
We should also revoke China’s MFN status, kick them out of the WTO, and tell them that if they don’t cooperate completely with an unfettered international investigation a 400% tariff will be slapped on every single thing they export to this country.
If they so much as twitch an objection repudiate all the T bills they hold.
Let them eat the paper.
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Amen. Oh, and I forgot one: I would officially recognize Taipei as an independent nation and sign a mutual defense pact with them.
Makes the trade war sort of prophetic, doesn’t it?
I meant to say “Taiwan”. I was toying with the idea of recognizing Taipei as the capital of China to really tick them off, then changed it.
He’s setting the table for later when he pulls the tablecloth out from under the CHINA.
Hell, arm the neutrals in the area. The Vietnamese *hate* the Chinese, I’m sure they’d like to have some new toys to get their kicks in.
Absolutely. I can’t wait to get back to working in person just so that I can tweak all of my Trump-hating coworkers by reminding them that Trump has been right about every single thing to do with China, and that we’re fortunate to have him as president during such times as this.
BINGO!!!
Correct. If we shut down all trade with China tomorrow, half the retirees in Florida will be dead inside three months due to lack of medication. And that’s the least of the problems we’ll have, because Biden will be elected after that.
Critical manufacturing has to move or have other sources found/created.
We should dedicate another $trn for the sole purpose of rebuilding our manufacturing base and industry, and shutting down trade with the Chicoms.
The ball is rolling. Downhill. There’s no going back now
China is dead in the eyes of the world now as a fair player
I believe it was a lab mistake, or a lab technician taking home pangolins taken out of the dumpster so her boyfriend to make good money at the Wet Market. It was China’s responsibility to identify the nature of the mystery illness and get the outbreak under control. It was their responsibility to ask other countries for help. But they didn’t. Now we have some questions for them.
Don’t forget that late in the Obama administration due to a breech in American intelligence virtually all Chinese nationals on the CIA payroll were compromised, arrested and executed. Western reporters were thrown out of China. Other than spy satellite and electronic monitoring, the US has few reliable on the ground assets in China.
However even if American intelligence determined that this was a Chinese engineered virus bioweapon and the virus once released was deliberately spread to the US for economic, political and military purposes, very much doubt Trump or any other Western leader would release that information and risk a bloody war with China,
Sure, Trump just pussy-foots around; while every other politician takes action. /s /s
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