China should be legally liable for
the pandemic damage it has done
Washington Post,
by
Marc Thiessen
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/11/2020 5:17:02 AM
The costs of the pandemic keep piling up. Hundreds of millions of Americans are on lockdown, a record 16.8 million have filed unemployment claims, nearly 15,000 Americans have died so far and the death toll is growing exponentially by the day. Congress has passed three coronavirus relief bills totaling $2.3 trillion, and more might soon be in the works.
Somebody has to pay for this unprecedented damage. That somebody should be the government of China.
No one can blame Beijing for a viral outbreak beyond its control. But the Chinese communist regime should be blamed — and held legally liable —
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/11/2020 5:19:27 AM (No. 375856)
No one can blame Beijing for a viral outbreak beyond its control.
I can. I can do it very easily. Cancel any debt we owe them. There's no being polite about this.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 4/11/2020 5:42:17 AM (No. 375865)
Lots of luck collecting.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/11/2020 6:33:29 AM (No. 375877)
China is not the only villain here. We also need to lay blame on others like WHO, media, distorted models, power hungry medical experts, those that have an agenda other than saving lives and the liberal politicians. All of this makes the perfect storm. I'm not saying that China should not pay. Just saying others have a role in this disaster. Most of us know that China can NEVER be trusted, yet the U.S.manufacturers have sold their souls to that country for cheap labor. China will never pay and the only way we could possibly get some leverage is crush them economically by bringing our jobs back. This would take the all the countries not just the U.S.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PerfectSense 4/11/2020 6:46:13 AM (No. 375886)
100% import tax on all Chinese goods (force companies to remove manufacturing from China).
100% ban on all Chinese citizens entering the USA (end the anchor baby trade).
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/11/2020 7:09:28 AM (No. 375902)
Want payback? One 10MT weapon on downtown Wuhan should put things just about right......
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/11/2020 7:30:25 AM (No. 375920)
Pffft. Keep cranking out the iPhones and we'll let it go. What I'd like to see happen is manufacturing back to the US or at least to allied nations.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mekkkk 4/11/2020 7:33:32 AM (No. 375922)
This should be obvious
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NancyD 4/11/2020 7:38:13 AM (No. 375927)
I think the Chinese Gov't is to blame for Creating the Virus and Distributing the Virus. "Yes, I said it!" (My Mark Levine impersonation) Ha!
Erase our debt we owe them, force all USA companies to remove manufacturing from China, and place 200% tariffs on all of Chinese goods that are sent to the USA. Quit funding WHO too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/11/2020 8:22:35 AM (No. 375977)
Regardless if the coronavirus outbreak was accidental or engineered by the Chinese, China owes the world for letting this disaster happen. They either developed the virus themselves or bought it from an outside source. Either way, for what purpose? They knew what they were dealing with, but, lax safety procedures at the lab were a factor. The Wuhan lab needs to be incinerated. The Chinese then elected to play a hide and seek coverup game with the world which is typical of a communist country. This made the outbreak much worse. Russia behaved in exactly the same way when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown happened in Russia.
Equally important, our msm must be held responsible for inciting mass panic and literally scaring the crap out of every American citizen. Certain news outlets should be no longer allowed to broadcast for what they did to the American public. The dim party is guilty as charged for weaponizing the virus outbreak for its political gain and must be taken to task for it - severely.
Also, if only the three our four months preceding the March outbreak were not lost with Nan Pelousy, Pencil Neck, Jabba, and Chuckie wasting critical time with their little impeachment circus. We will take care of this in November.
Agree with other commenters that China's holdings of US treasuries be cancelled. Cancellation of this debt ($2 trillion??) will not cover the amount of money the US has spent managing the crisis, but, it is probably all we will get out of the Chicoms.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/11/2020 8:25:45 AM (No. 375979)
Certain people can't do without Nikes and iPhones. The idea of having China forgive our debt to them, as payment for introducing the Chinese virus without warning, has been floated.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/11/2020 8:40:07 AM (No. 375990)
Sounds good, but wasted breath.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/11/2020 9:01:39 AM (No. 376009)
Can't believe the ComPost printed anything critical of its paymaster, Red China
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/11/2020 9:24:16 AM (No. 376040)
This will be done and it needs to be done worldwide. However, we need to bring our medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the US first.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/11/2020 9:25:20 AM (No. 376043)
I don't think the Chinese government's lies were directed at us or even to 'save face'. I think they were directed at its own people to hold on to their power. So at the end of the day, are we willing to wage war against Red China? And do we understand what China's dumping of US debt as in bond holdings would mean for the value of the dollar and the value of our word to the world? We stand to lose as much as they do. Fortunately, I think Trump is more than up to the task of hard negotiating with these vile people.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 4/11/2020 9:31:35 AM (No. 376051)
The world needs to punish China and any coconspirarors severely.
MITIGATE CHINA
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/11/2020 10:08:38 AM (No. 376087)
This Wuhan COVID-19 virus strain is so contagious and debilitating compared to previous viruses that have been previously seen in the USA, that the more you look at this from a common sense point of view, especially with the quick spread of the virus across the world that is ongoing, with China claiming that they now have no new cases, that the true genesis of this virus was in the Chinese bio-weapons laboratory known to be located at Wuhan. Rather then in a bowl of bat soup or a snake sandwich served up in the Chinese cultural “wet” market nearby that has been blamed by the Chinese Communist Government.
In that respect who is to say at this point that a particular strong strain of the virus did not somehow escape from laboratory safety controls and infect one or more laboratory workers who then took lunch at the “wet” market for a bowl of bat soup or a snake sandwich, where they unknowingly started the spread, and them probably died and were cremated.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/11/2020 10:12:45 AM (No. 376091)
We need to smarten up. 1. China holds 1T of our national debt. Japan holds more and the U.K. isn’t far behind China 2.) China is led by gangsters. China’s selfish and irresponsible policies keep destroying human lives in China and around the world. They deserve no respect but until we can stand on our own two feet with necessities manufactured exclusively over there we need to seem respectful of their insane “leadership“ 3.) Greedy, selfish, stupid leadership in our own country helped get us in this fix. A reckoning is in order. We need to know who they are and hold them responsible for selling us out. Add to this list: Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Feinstein, Pelosi, Obama, GHW and GW Bush 4.) Enforce immigration laws 5.) Know that grappling with the Chinese mafia aka CCP will be ugly.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/11/2020 10:24:16 AM (No. 376098)
China is still lying and covering up. No way they will ever be held accountable in court. Local news ran a piece the other day saying the virus in Europe doesn't look like the virus in China because it mutated. No doubt its more Chinese propaganda.
The business community is still assessing their losses. They are the ones to watch. What good are cheap Chinese products when the world is on lock down, and there is no one to buy them? What are the biggest corporations that have business dealings with China, and what are they going to do with them going forward? The only companies that will stick with them are the ones with close government ties to China. If they do, they should be penalized for that.
China should also be pressured to close down their bio labs if they are so dangerous. China should also be pressured to pay more attention to human rights and public safety. Its was China's social policies that lead to the pandemic and global economic crisis.
it will also be interesting to see what President Trump and Congress do regarding China. There area lot of options. Our leaders should be holding China accountable. So should all world leaders.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bubby 4/11/2020 10:36:19 AM (No. 376104)
The only real punishment China faces is the repatriation of America’s supply chains. That will be it! The euroweanies will not support any kind of punishment for China other than perhaps some harsh words despite infecting the entire world with the Wuhan virus killing hundreds of thousands, destroying economies and lives all over the world! And China knows nothing will come of it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/11/2020 10:56:07 AM (No. 376122)
China will pay, legally or not.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/11/2020 10:56:54 AM (No. 376125)
Well getting all of OUR manufacturing out of China would be an excellent place to start. Then jack up the tariffs on imports. Much quicker results and more satisfying too.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Firebase 4/11/2020 11:26:33 AM (No. 376156)
How about yanking of the "most favored nation" trading status, that Bubba bestowed them in 1994, based on no merit, other than he thought it would be a terrific thing to do. Perhaps China tried to lie their way out of this has only two possible explanations: That this was engineered and released on purpose or they are totally incompetent at bio research. Either way, they should be punished. Just tell them to pound sand re the money the US owes them and if they don't like it, too bad. They screwed us over in Korea and Vietnam, the trend continues and we owe them NOTHING.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 4/11/2020 11:31:38 AM (No. 376162)
Behind every government, evil or just, are ordinary people. I agree that the Chinese government should be held accountable, but talk like dropping bombs on Wuhan? Come on. In the last five years, I have become friends with several Chinese students going to school here, and getting acquainted with their families in China. Every one of them is a lovely person. It certainly is true that several have drunk the Communist Kool-Aid. The older generations grew up with China being sealed off from the world and getting no news but that which has been filtered from their government. Their children, being ingrained in their culture to respect their elders, were taught the same about the government. Some of my friends are still very defensive about the source of the virus -- "Why say, China? It came from animals, not a country!" But to argue with them or to show them animosity is of no gain. Each one of them here and each member of their family there, has been terrified of this virus. Thousands of Chinese have died and many thousand more are in mourning. These are flesh and blood people who struggle to put food on the table, worry about their relatives, want to provide a future for their children, like you and I. They are in a 100% atheistic country, antagonistic towards Christians. Jesus is nothing other than a name like Buddha to them. Before we assign blanket-blame on the entire country and call for the entire country to be punished, let him who is without sin, cast the first stone. This is Easter weekend. A time when we humbly thank and praise God that He paid the price for every sin of ours and every sin of theirs. We may be the only "Bible" that these people will "read." How pitiful we would all be if Christ had not been risen, for that would mean that the Father never accepted His Son's payment for our sins! Let's not be ruled by fear and vengeance. "A new command I give you: Love one another." (John 13:34) Happy Easter.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 4/11/2020 11:33:04 AM (No. 376166)
President Trump - Bring back manufacturing and our drugs to the US. Once a plan has been reached, our antibiotics and other life saving products secured, CRUSH THE CHICOMS!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
joew9 4/11/2020 11:36:13 AM (No. 376173)
We need to get our pharmaceuticals out of China, India, and Asia and back to US shores ASAP. However, we cannot announce that intent. We have too much in their basket and they can hold us hostage by depriving us of needed pharmaceuticals. So we have to start doing this quietly. Ease into it. In a few years when we have production facilities ready for the full supply we can step on the gas and cut them off. But we cannot publicly announce out intentions. In fact we have to lie about it.
With other manufacturing we just continue increasing tariffs just as Trump has been doing all along.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/11/2020 12:02:26 PM (No. 376217)
It is high time to show China the same amount of care, concern and commerce it has shown others. Ready. Aim. Etc.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/11/2020 1:19:58 PM (No. 376336)
When you gonna pay us back?
$$$$$$$$
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/11/2020 1:29:41 PM (No. 376347)
Bill Gates and his Foundation modelers at University Of Washington deserve much blame for our panicked response to this seasonal virus. Are these modelers involved in Global Warming as well?
Open up the lockdown. Springtime, face masks and hydroxychloroquine will be enough to dampen the Chinese virus.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/11/2020 2:15:51 PM (No. 376389)
Both China and others claim that the COVID-19 virus was spread to humans by animals at the Chinese cultural “wet” market at Wuhan, China. But neither the Chinese or anyone else has been able to determine and report just what specific species of animal did that, or how droplets containing the very contagious virus made their way out of the animals and into human respiratory systems?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Digiconver 4/11/2020 5:24:32 PM (No. 376535)
God save us from Chinese gustatory preferences and Liberal morons - the bottom line reason the entire world is in this fix.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
leonardo 4/11/2020 7:08:03 PM (No. 376590)
Sooner or later we will have to confront the amoral Chinese Communists.
So why not sooner? The charge by the US for damages to the fabric of our nation will be $20T, thank you very much ... deduct principal & interest payments on any Treasury securities they own, and they pay the balance. Next up are the artificial islands in the South China Sea ... remove Chinese military forces & equipment there, or WE will ... touch Taiwan and Beijing will become a stinking, smoking ruin. And Have a Nice Day Virus-boys.
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