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  • Labor_Elemental [he/him,none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Even though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is likely responsible for the coronavirus pandemic through its cover-up of COVID-19's origins ...

    You did nothing for 2 months. The WHO director's statement when it was upgraded to a pandemic made it very clear most of the world lacks the political will to take this seriously. It is the predictable failure of liberal democracy that has given us several variants and the real possibility of a new endemic disease. From said statement:

    Even those countries with community transmission or large clusters can turn the tide on this virus.
    Several countries have demonstrated that this virus can be suppressed and controlled.
    The challenge for many countries who are now dealing with large clusters or community transmission is not whether they can do the same – it’s whether they will.

    In the beginning of the pandemic, communist China—as the world's dominant medical supply manufacturer—hoarded and later sold critical medical products to countries crippled by the virus.

    This is projection.

    China's "vaccine diplomacy" continues to advance its Health Silk Road as it exports hundreds of millions of copies of its vaccines abroad, while chiding Western countries for "vaccine nationalism."

    How many have you exported? Biden literally said America first with regards to vaccine exports. Should the rest of the world wait until 2025?

    Due to China's totalitarian system, there is no such thing as a wholly independent business that is free from the supervision and control of the Chinese Communist Party.

    Oh no their private companies don't have carte blanche. The horror!!!

    The referenced but unlinked, Horizon Advisory Report.

    Drake Manufacturing LLC, a bearing manufacturer in Ohio, received $350,000-1 million. Drake was purchased in 2017 by Drake Manufacturing Acquisition LLC, a subsidiary of CW North America Inc, whose parent company is Ningbo-based Cixing Group Co.

    Who sold it to them? If these are such critical industries that you can't hand them over to the PRC-run conglomerates why are the sales not blocked? Also if the point was to pay people to stay home and cover payroll, then yeah they should get the money. They have US employees. If anything the problem in PPP was not that foreign conglomerates were able to cash in (I doubt Chinese companies were alone in this regard) but that the money had so few strings attached or guarantees to workers with regards to what conditions and pay they could expect to return to.

    Fuck all of these pasty white China hawks. They all the exact same and have the same exact resume:

    1. Ivy league degree
    2. Congressional staffer/intern
    3. Neocon thinktank or congressperson
    4. ???
    5. Write racist nonsense in the opinion column of any and every newspaper under the sun