[ April 19, 2024 ]
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro told Maria Bartiromo on her Fox Sunday morning show that during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, China attempted to “corner the world market” in personal protective equipment such as face masks and gloves.
“We know that China knew about the virus as early as mid-December. We know that for a period of about five to six weeks they hid the dangers from the rest of the world even as Chinese citizens were flying around the world seeding the world with the virus,” Navarro said on Fox News.
“It looks like during that interval, China was basically attempting to corner the market in personal protective equipment including masks. So they were buying large quantities of masks, gloves, goggles, respirators from the rest of the world at a time when the world was still sleeping with respect to the dangers of the virus.”
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Navarro pointed out that Chinese customs data shows “one statistic that I think every American should sit up and really stare at,” namely that China bought 2.2 billion face masks between January 24 and the end of February.
“Americans are getting infected because they don’t have the masks. Italians are dying because they don’t have masks. Health care professionals are going down,” the White House trade adviser said. “If those statistics are telling a story about China basically going out and trying to corner the world market in PPE when they knew the dangers and didn’t tell the rest of the world, I think that’s a significant discussion we need to have, at least after this is all over because that’s a serious matter.”
https://twitter.com/mzytequila/status/1251876599651348481
NY Post, April 8, 2020:
A group of frontline healthcare workers are suing the Chinese government, claiming that it mishandled the coronavirus outbreak and is now hoarding badly-needed personal protective equipment and selling it for profit.
In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla. against the Chinese Communist Party, the healthcare workers charge that it is blocking exports of gloves, goggles and other PPE and selling it at a substantial mark-up while people across the globe are getting sick and dying from COVID-19.
They also allege that the Chinese government should be held responsible for the extent of the coronavirus outbreak because it initially tried to downplay its dangers, censored doctors who tried to sound the alarm and stalled in locking down Wuhan, the sprawling metropolis that has been identified as ground zero for the bug.
“It’s almost straight out of a movie — ‘let’s cause the world to get a virus and let’s profit off of it,’” said Jeremy Alters, a spokesman for the Boca Raton-based Berman Law Group.
The plaintiffs include a New York doctor, a New Jersey surgical technologist, a West Virginia nurse and a doctor and a nurse working in Florida. They claim that their suit could cover nearly 4 million US healthcare workers.
Executives from manufacturers 3M and Honeywell have told US officials that China has blocked their exports of respirators, gloves and other PPE.
A lawyer for President Trump’s re-election campaign recently said the White House has been in contact with the manufacturers and that it is weighing legal action against Beijing for allegedly hoarding PPE.
Last month, the Berman Law Group filed a lawsuit against the People’s Republic of China on behalf of a group of Florida businesses alleging that it should be held liable for trillions of dollars in damages to individuals and businesses.
That claim is not contained in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the healthcare workers, which points instead to the widely-accepted theory that the disease was transmitted from animals to humans.
Alters said the alternative theory was not contained in the healthcare workers’ suit because it is meant to give more attention to China’s alleged stockpiling of PPE.
The Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank, said in a report released on Sunday that the US and the six other G7 member-states could pursue the Chinese government in court for more than $3 trillion damages for the way it has handled the COVID-19 outbreak, Radio Free Asia reports.
The Chinese embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.
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24 Comments
4 years ago
Everyone not a lunatic Leftist knows what China has done.
What I want to know is how China is going to be forced to pay for this.
Obviously war is not an option but severe financial sanctions should be imposed and if we have to pay more for our own homemade goods then too bad!
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Putin: Coronavirus outbreak in Russia under ‘full control’ – WashTimes
“The situation is under full control,” Mr. Putin said in a televised address on Orthodox Easter. “All of our society is united in front of the common threat.”
Too funny, the numbers show Russia shooting through the roof. No leveling off, and no end in sight, just straight up.
https://covid19info.live/russia/
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
“how China is going to be forced to pay for this.”
Cancel the US T-Bills held by China. Re-value them at 10 cents on the dollar, and offer to buy them back at that price. Trump could do that. Suddenly China would have about $1 trillion in new unsecured debt. And that $1 trillion could be re-assigned for US use.
“How Much U.S. Debt Does China Own?”
https://www.thebalance.com/how-much-u-s-debt-does-china-own-417016
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
The Chinese elite are positively diabolical. They cost us more than a trillion. The dam Presidents and politicans borrowed from CHINA to finance our wars in the middle east! Afghanistan, Iraq etc. were all financed by CHINA! China accounts for a huge portion of OUR DEBT! Thank Clinton, the Bush’s and Obama for putting us into this position.
China could still collapse our dollar. China is trying to promote a DIGITAL currency to replace the US DOLLAR as the new standard. China is not done yet in bringing down the U.S.! They want Trump out. It is true that China is having it’s worst economy in decades because of Trump. This is why the GOPe and the DEMS want to take away his legitimate tariff power. Tariffs work!
The Chinese are still devaluing their currency to get their products into our country. Their economy can not handle much more of this so it is more imperative than ever to get Trump out! China is being squeezed by Trump and the swamp doesn’t like it.
Both parties have abandoned Trump. Both parties are home till May 4th instead of trying to stop the bankrupsy of small businesses during this shut down. The GOPe sees Trump LOSING in November and are seeking to preserve themselves and get back to pre Trump times. Relisten to Trump’s
last virus update! He spells it out. This is a 2016 GOPe repeat and the outcome of a Trump landside is very questionable!
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
“how China is going to be forced to pay for this.”
Cancel the US T-Bills held by China. Re-value them at 10 cents on the dollar, and offer to buy them back at that price. Trump could do that. Suddenly China would have about $1 trillion in new unsecured debt. And that $1 trillion could be re-assigned for US use.
“How Much U.S. Debt Does China Own?”
https://www.thebalance.com/how-much-u-s-debt-does-china-own-417016
4 years ago
IMO, China is a patsy. China is the perfect patsy for this virus. I think China was studying this virus and even testing it on humans (Muslims). A lot of others were looking at this group of viruses a long time ago. https://cdn.qmap.pub/images…
I think someone else knew China was working on this virus and either got their hands on the virus and information about its effects from the Chinese lab by buying it from someone there, or they got the identity of the virus and the information about its effects from the Chinese lab by buying it from someone there (so they could produce it themselves in their own labs), or they were working with China on this virus so the knew all about it…. and they released it in China. Upon identifying the virus in the outbreak, China’s behavior would predictably make them look guilty (the perfect patsy). A set up.
The virus creates a smear campaign (illness and death and economic harm), and it creates a fear campaign designed to convince us that the only safe way to vote in the next election is by mail. The Democrats have been using both.
The people behind the Democrats (European controlled central banks) want to rule the world. They have a long history of setting their enemies against each other, and we are one of their enemies. They can’t topple us with an army and they can’t take the world by force with their own army, so they set us up for a fight that would annihilate their opposition, including us. They needed a traitor and psychopath for that job, and she lost, but they guaranteed a war of survival (see Europe and the Mohammedan stew they are in).
China was enriched and enabled by our money and technology, and grown into a threat so we would have to fight them. Our dependence on China is a supply chain that was designed to be broken to cause maximum harm to us when we ended up in a fight with them. Trade with communist China was sold to us as a way to make China more like us, but it (predictably) made communist China a stronger communist China. We never needed to trade with China, we were crushed (devalued currency, artificially elevated energy costs, increased government burdens, and so on) until we needed cheaper stuff just to get by, so that made the sales pitch for trading with communist China easier. We never needed a drop of ME oil, but we were told we didn’t have much (a lie). That lie resulted in reduced domestic production, buying ME (Muslims) oil, and defending the oil (and money from it) that goes to Europe. The FED (European controlled kingpin of foreign central banks) is behind all of this.
The collective that wants to rule the world didn’t build China up so China would rule the world, but that is the nature of communist China. People who want to rule the world didn’t enrich and empower Muslims so Muslims could rule the world, but that is the nature of Islam. Who embraces both and also opposes everything President Trump is doing? Who was so treasonous that they committed more treason to rig the election for Hillary? Who is so desperate that they spent every minute since Hillary lost on a coup attempt (more treason). Who is so desperate that they would murder people in a scheme to retake the power of the WH? Who has been in bed with the patsy? Who has the world to gain by this and everything to lose if they don’t get back in the WH? “We all hang from nooses if Trump wins – Hillary”.
I’m not defending communist China, I’m pointing to the people who are an even greater threat. They have one foot on our soil (traitors) and one foot in Europe. The Democrat Party is a domestic enemy, and the US political power of the European controlled central banks. If murdering us was the primary objective, they would have used a worse bug and dropped it here. Control of our arsenal is the primary objective, and that requires a Democrat in the WH.
4 years ago
Reply to
spfoam1
China is no “patsy”. The Chinese elite LIED and purposely spread the virus. The Chinese could care less about Chinese Muslims. They are the least of my concern. I can NOT defend the Chinese elite for their debolical actions and neither should you. The Chinese elite are determined to bring the west down and dominate!
The Chinese and the GOPe DO want Biden or whoever they replace him with in the WH for a return to business as usual. The corrupt DEMS and the GOPe HATE Trump for interupting their gravy train.
As Trump stated in his last virus update, if a DEM gets in the WH as President, China will OWN THE U.S. and other countries. China has been buying up countries through predatory loans, our STOCK as our market tumbled due to their virus and the Chinese already bought allot of our debt. In other words, China will own us ECONOMICALLY!
Thank Trump for STOPPING the buying of our largest port in Los Angeles! That is another way of taking over a country – buying ports to control commerce!
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
“The Chinese elite LIED and purposely spread the virus.”
Yep. There could be more than one reason for that.
“The Chinese could care less about Chinese Muslims.”
I never said they did. I said they used them for experiments. Maybe you don’t understand what I actually said.
“They are the least of my concern.”
I didn’t say they were my concern.
“I can NOT defend the Chinese elite…neither should you.”
I’m not. Can you read? I’m pointing out ANOTHER enemy. Who do you think grew communist China into threat on our money and technology?
I understand who is against President Trump and I understand what China is doing and has been doing. I also understand that the central banks are trying to take over China, and the central banks are behind the Democrat Party. You don’t seem to understand that important part of the equation. I understand what a smash and grab is, and who would be in the position to exploit this virus for such a thing.
You put a lot of words in my mouth.
Do you downvote people just because you disagree? That’s pretty lame. If you disagree, contradict the statement. I downvote trolls who are scumbags, and that’s about it….but to each his own.
4 years ago
AND what they suppled to Spain in millions were defective. These items were returned. Then Canada received likely the same items – and they too were found to be defective. Meanwhile BA has just flown an aircraft load of the same items ftom China. AND three orders of masks and gloves from eBay – from Chinese sellers – have resulted in money being taken, then the orders were cancelled or never sent, then the sellers accounts were terminated. Luckily eBay has a refund policy. China is a pariah state with a pariah Empiror who doesn’t give a monkeys about killing millions to take over the world as no. 1 super-power. Boycott everything from China especially Huawei.
4 years ago
Reply to
BrexitForever
You are right but a REFUND doesn’t save a life! This equipment as you know, was desperately needed to save lives. Thankfully Ebay at least did a refund.
4 years ago
Globalists + Communists + Muslims . Very depressing fact that we have enemies all around us and not few within. Who can save us from these? We are too spoilt and mollycoddled to endure what is necessary to beat them all as the west is infamous for not coping with huge casualties as we are too soft .Always remember that just ONE battle in WW2 killed more Germans and >3x as many soviets as the total sum of allied killed over the whole war.
4 years ago
IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN THIS!
While China is raging with their BIOWARFARE VIRUS, the Chinese in Wuhan were not allowed to leave and other Chinese people were not allowed to go into Wuhan, so Wuhan was quarantined within China. Their Chinese New Year was held while this was going on. Chinese people were allowed to LEAVE CHINA. So China EXPORTED their virus to OTHER COUNTRIES knowing how infectious and deadly it was. Yes, read that again. The Chinese allowed the virus to leave China while they hide and lied about it to the world.Italy and Iran are highly infected with it beacuse they employ allot of Chinese for CHEAP LABOR!
Other Chinese that attended the Chinese New Year, left Wuhan and spread it to the REST OF THE WORLD. NO warning was given to other countries.
China purposely spread the virus to the rest of the world! Yes Trump haters, Trump was wise in ending flights from China to the U.S. with the exception of Chinese American citizens and other American citizens wanting to come home. They were tested upon entry to the U.S. thanks to “racist ” xenophobic” Trump. Trump was called a racist etc. for doing that and WHO condemned it as well etc. and they knew what was going on! Tedro, head of WHO should be hung.
To put more salt in the wound, the personal protection equipment that China horded to make a profit later, was redistributed to other infected countries was DEFECTIVE. So here you have a defenseless country with nothing to use to help their own country after GIVING the PPE to China! How evil can you get? Follow the One Belt One Road countries and see HOW THE VIRUS SPREAD. This is why IRAN has allot of the virus and hiding it too!
It is also rumored that China also has a cure for the virus and NOT sharing that too! They are still testing it. They have also REVERSE ENGINEERED a drug we have found promising to use on their people. So the Chinese disrespected our patent and technology laws. The Chinese elites are ruthless and diabolical. I don’t blame the everyday Chinese people who have died and suffered during the Chinese elite coverup. Many have “disappeared” when they tired to warn the west.
Also note the Chinese trade team came to the WH to meet with Trump, in December, shook his hand, no social distancing, and I speculate to give the virus directly to TRUMP. Why not? Human life has no value to the communist Chinese and the Chinese want TRUMP OUT! Trump is destroying their economy with tariffs and they need Trump out. The GOP, with few exceptions also wants Trump out and sees him as LOSING the ELECTION!
The GOP has also abandoned Trump, AGAIN! The Senate and Congress and HOME till May4th instead of trying to help small business out. Yes, it’s not just Pelosi! Mitch and the Senate are HOME while small business dies. So don’t be impressed with people like CRUZ or other snakes. They are HOME too without a complaint! WAKE UP! This is a repeat of 2016. The GOP portion of the swamp, has also abandoned Trump again and into self preservation mode to keep their seats in 2020.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Human life has no value to the dims. Look how many babies they murder. Several governors are using unconstitutional “Executive Orders” blocking a medication combination that works, simply because President Trump mentioned it.
These murderers must go.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Not entirely true. While the people in the big city of Wuhan couldn’t travel to other cities in China, 5 MILLION of them were allowed to LEAVE China and scatter all over the world. No doubt they had been infected before they left, thus the pandemic.
4 years ago
This has been a warning to the west that each nation state needs its own manufacturing base, medicine and pharmacy R&D, we cannot rely on the Globalists or the UN, the WHO headed by a Communist extremist lied for the Chinese Communist Party and when Taiwan questioned the WHO findings Tedros accused them of racism, the lefts favourite word which magically destroys all reason.
3 years ago
How you gonna collect? China won’t pay a cent.
3 years ago
Reply to
tedlv
Unless China are forced to pay by a United front from America and Britain where their main trade comes from.
Either pay Compensation or No trading on our markets and ISOLATION. Your choice China!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
I completely agree, but even so, Trump’s conversations with Jiping have continued and trade with the ChiComs will also continue, UNFORTUNATELY.
3 years ago
Speaking of hoarding and the neurotic panic buying among consumers of toilet paper and bottled water, I’d like to whip some hoarder’s ass for all this disruption they have caused.
3 years ago
START READING LABELS. YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED TO KNOW YOU COULD CLEAN OUT HALF YOUR BATHROOM & KITCHEN. KNOW THE MFG COS WITH CHINA PLANTS & BOYCOTT THEM. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
3 years ago
I just heard that there is evidence that China knew as early as November. They prevented anyone from entering Wuhan and those living in Wuhan from going to other parts of China. BUT they allowed exposed citizens from Wuhan to fly all over the world. The fashion industry in Italy has lots of business connections in Wuhan. That is probably why Italy is so hard hit. The whole thing is one giant international crime. China’s Communist government needs to be completely removed.
3 years ago
I strongly doubt that anyone will learn anything from this plague crisis at all. I hope some do but I doubt anything will change. Every single person to the last should be absolutely, totally outraged and furious that this plague was perpetrated on the world. Whether this was an accidental or intentional release from a lab doesn’t matter at this point because it happened. There is so much proof it is from a lab that only a fool believes this was not from a lab.
I hope President Trump realizes now just how evil the Communist Chinese Party is. I think he knew all along but believed that everybody wants a win-win business deal and he could deal with China. I think he was wrong. I think it is time to build the “Great Wall of China” economic isolation program which will cause the U.S. economy to go through the roof and will, partly, help repay Americans for all they have suffered so far and will suffer for a long time to come.
