CHINA

[Tank]

1 hour ago, st1ckboy said:

@Tank you will notice you received a notification of a reaction to a post you made 7 years ago. That's just a minute fraction of what is to come if you continue down this cat facing path. Would you like to continue?

That was pretty awesome, stick. Fire away.

[gotbeer]

[RallyMo]

Just 'cause...

[AngelsLakersFan]

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-calls-on-firms-to-cut-supply-chain-reliance-on-china

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TOKYO - "Made In China" Japanese goods may be the latest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resolves to wean firms off their dependence on China.

To help them do it, Mr Abe has earmarked about 240 billion yen (S$3.2 billion) to support domestic companies in decoupling their supply chains from China, especially those in high value-added manufacturing.

 

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/China-up-close/Xi-fears-Japan-led-manufacturing-exodus-from-China

Xi fears Japan-led manufacturing exodus from China

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TOKYO -- Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed building an economy that is less dependent on one country, China, so that the nation can better avoid supply chain disruptions.

The call touched off a heated debate in the Chinese political world.

In Zhongnanhai, the area in central Beijing where leaders of the Chinese Communist Party and the state government have their offices, "there are now serious concerns over foreign companies withdrawing from China," a Chinese economic source said. "What has particularly been talked about is the clause in Japan's emergency economic package that encourages (and funds) the re-establishment of supply chains."

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There are talks in the U.S. regarding China dependency.

Larry Kudlow, chairman of the White House's National Economic Council, has expressed his intention to consider shouldering the relocation costs of American companies returning home from China.

It fits with President Donald Trump's "America first" agenda.

If the U.S. and Japan, the world's biggest and third-biggest economies respectively, move away from China, it will have a huge impact on the world's second-biggest economy.

 

[AngelsLakersFan]

https://apple.news/A6K3PAiiHTPulMwrcc9huQA 

China Praises WHO, Willing to Boost Support (9 a.m. HK)

China is willing to increase support to the World Health Organization as the world needs the group to eliminate Covid-19, a top Chinese diplomat said in a phone call with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

China’s government is in “firm support” of the WHO and criticisms are “groundless,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Ghebreyesus in a phone call on Saturday.

China confirmed 16 additional Covid-19 cases on April 18, with no new deaths, according to the National Health Commission. Of the new cases, 9 were imported from outside of China, it said. The country also reported 44 asymptomatic cases.

[Redondo]

40 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

https://apple.news/A6K3PAiiHTPulMwrcc9huQA 

China Praises WHO, Willing to Boost Support (9 a.m. HK)

China is willing to increase support to the World Health Organization as the world needs the group to eliminate Covid-19, a top Chinese diplomat said in a phone call with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

China’s government is in “firm support” of the WHO and criticisms are “groundless,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Ghebreyesus in a phone call on Saturday.

China confirmed 16 additional Covid-19 cases on April 18, with no new deaths, according to the National Health Commission. Of the new cases, 9 were imported from outside of China, it said. The country also reported 44 asymptomatic cases.

Of course they are. They are siding with China all the way. 

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

China really does want to out do the US in every way. I say we let them try while we focus on getting our own house in order.  Let someone else be the asshole most of the rest of the world goes to for help while simultaneously complaining about them. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

59 minutes ago, Redondo said:

Of course they are. They are siding with China all the way. 

Have you seen the interview with Tedros (head of WHO) where he attributes criticism of him as 'racist attacks out of Taiwan' ... their policy seems to be to not reference Taiwan at all, except in this case apparently. How odd...

[Redondo]

8 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Have you seen the interview with Tedros (head of WHO) where he attributes criticism of him as 'racist attacks out of Taiwan' ... their policy seems to be to not reference Taiwan at all, except in this case apparently. How odd...

Strange indeed.

[Redondo]

EXCLUSIVE: Navarro says China hid virus from world, is hoarding PPE for profit

White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro said during an exclusive interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” that China "cornered" the personal protective equipment (PPE) market during the coronavirus outbreak and “is profiteering.”

Navarro, who is also the National Defense Production Act policy coordinator, made the comment on Sunday reacting to a recent Fox News report, which cited multiple sources, that there is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China's attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States.

Navarro, who was one of the first to warn about the novel coronavirus, noted “China did [several things] over the course of this thing,” which, he said, “led to the deaths of many people worldwide.”

“First of all, the virus was spawned in China. Second of all, they hid the virus behind the shield of the World Health Organization. The third thing they did was basically hoard personal protective equipment and now they’re profiteering from it,” Navarro told host Maria Bartiromo, referencing the fact that many states have been dealing with a shortage of PPE for health care workers during the coronavirus crisis.

Sources believe the initial transmission of the virus – a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there – was bat-to-human and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.

The sources explained that there was an extensive cover-up of data and information about COVID-19 orchestrated by the Chinese government.

Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a possible point of origin never sold bats, and the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country's propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. and Italy.

On Thursday, China’s foreign ministry pushed back on the suspicion that the virus escaped from the facility, by citing statements from the World Health Organization that there is no evidence the coronavirus came from a laboratory.

China moved quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but did not stop international flights from Wuhan.

Additionally, the sources tell Fox News the World Health Organization (WHO) was complicit from the beginning in helping China cover its tracks.   

“What we know is that the ground zero for this virus was within a few miles of that lab,” Navarro noted.

“I think it's incumbent on China to prove that it wasn't that lab,” Navarro went on to say.

He added that “more importantly, we know that for a critical six-week period of time, China used its influence at the World Health Organization to hide the virus from the world. This was a time where that virus could have been contained in Wuhan; instead, 5 million Chinese people went out from Wuhan and propagated the virus around the world.”

Navarro went on to explain what he thinks “should be very disturbing to every American.”

“During that period of time, that six-week interval when they were hiding this virus from the world, China went from a net exporter of personal protective equipment, they are the largest producer of that in the world, to a large net importer,” Navarro said. “They basically went around and vacuumed up virtually all of the PPE around the world, including a lot from this country, which was for humanitarian reasons sharing our PPE with them, and what that did was leave people in New York, Milan, and everywhere in-between defenseless when it came time to have that PPE.”

“Now what's happening today, which is equally alarming, is China is sitting on that hoard of PPE where it cornered the market and is profiteering,” he continued. “I have cases that are coming across my desk where $0.50 masks made in China are being sold to hospitals here in America for as much as $8.”

As of Sunday, more than 2.3 million people around the world have tested positive for the new coronavirus and more than 162,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. In America more than 735,000 cases have been reported and 39,000 people have died.

Navarro noted the death toll on Sunday and said that China “may attempt to use this crisis now to advance their own agenda worldwide.”

He went on to say that his current focus is “to make sure people have everything they need here.”

[tdawg87]

Hopefully we've found the chink in China's armor. I'm not advocating for the world to take a bat to their face and go to war, but hopefully Russia realizes the seriousness of what China has done and doesn't squint in the face of facts.

[Lou]

14 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Hopefully we've found the chink in China's armor. 

[cysomeawfulpitcher]

[tdawg87]

[AngelsLakersFan]

29 minutes ago, cysomeawfulpitcher said:

a stupid meme

This isn't a Trump thread

[Amazing Larry]

 

[St1ck]

15 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

This isn't a Trump thread

Who cares?

[ten ocho recon scout]

18 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Hopefully we've found the chink in China's armor. I'm not advocating for the world to take a bat to their face and go to war, but hopefully Russia realizes the seriousness of what China has done and doesn't squint in the face of facts.

Well, no. Thats how this whole thing started.

[AngelsLakersFan]

4 hours ago, st1ckboy said:

Who cares?

[gotbeer]

Two in three Americans now hold negative view of China: poll

 

[AngelsLakersFan]

https://apple.news/A584C0GTPTY2sdSuOFGZ6zg

New York Times: Chinese Agents Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say

 

In March, text messages about the U.S. going into nationwide lockdown caused a wave of panic, prompting the National Security Council to publicly declare them as fake.

Now, a new report by the New York Times claims Chinese operatives may have helped proliferate those messages, using new, "alarming" techniques.

Citing six unnamed American officials working in six different agencies, the report claims that Chinese agents helped push the messages across platforms. What makes this particularly troublesome is the fact that these messages showed up on people's phones as texts, which is a disinformation tactic that some of the New York Times' sources haven't encountered before.

[Redondo]

^^^

China being sneaky. 

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Redondo said:

^^^

China being sneaky. 

never saw THAT happening...

[Adam]

A chickety china the chinese chicken

[tdawg87]

2 hours ago, Tank said:

never saw THAT happening...

Tbf neither did they.