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Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by _bxg1 »

celticninja wrote: post #33
_bxg1 wrote: post #8

Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.

The Chinese are people like you and me. Yes their government needs a lot of work, but people are people and we need to remember that more.

Sure, but there's no way one of their billionaires would be allowed to take an action like this without discussing it with the CCP first. For all we know it was their idea.

I'm not saying it's evil or that we shouldn't accept it, I'm just observing the optics and the fact that there's no way the CCP didn't consider it from this perspective beforehand, regardless of any other motives.

Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by avip »

_bxg1 wrote: post #8

Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.

This comment could be a-priori applied to any "Bob sends aid to Alice" case?

Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by spectramax »

hawk_ wrote: post #25
_bxg1 wrote: post #8

Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.

It's concerted effort by Chinese establishment to whitewash their handling of the whole thing. They even want to pretend that the virus didn't even originate in China! https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...

Why is this downvoted? There is a source and the point is valid. This is a fact of what's going on in China.

To the downvoters - explain.

Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by dexterdog »

celticninja wrote: post #33
_bxg1 wrote: post #8

Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.

The Chinese are people like you and me. Yes their government needs a lot of work, but people are people and we need to remember that more.

Show me a national government that doesn't need a lot of work.

Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by soneil »

brrrrr1 wrote: post #34
tmotwu wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because thats what matters to you? Were europeans sending aid to China a power move? It’s acceptable to send aid to each other, no matter who you appear to represent.

what help specifically were europeans sending to china, other than racist blunders and loads of ignorance of their problem?

China appear to be making special efforts to send whatever they can to Italy, in recognition of Italy going above and beyond in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan 'quake.

For all that's going wrong lately, it's not a bad thing to see, I think.

Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by sieabahlpark »

guardiangod wrote: post #35
hawk_ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's concerted effort by Chinese establishment to whitewash their handling of the whole thing. They even want to pretend that the virus didn't even originate in China! https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...

You should see what some of my Chinese relatives/friends are forwarding in WeChat- 1. CIA created the virus and released the virus in China as a test. 2. (In Chinese there's no word for 'flu', only 'cold', or 'transmissible cold'.) The 'cold' virus originated in US last year and killed more than 10k Americans before US sent special force to Wuhan to infect us Chinese! Even the head of CDC admitted it (see article). 3…

That's probably exactly what China wants it's population to believe.

Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by knzhou »

guardiangod wrote: post #35
hawk_ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's concerted effort by Chinese establishment to whitewash their handling of the whole thing. They even want to pretend that the virus didn't even originate in China! https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us...

You should see what some of my Chinese relatives/friends are forwarding in WeChat- 1. CIA created the virus and released the virus in China as a test. 2. (In Chinese there's no word for 'flu', only 'cold', or 'transmissible cold'.) The 'cold' virus originated in US last year and killed more than 10k Americans before US sent special force to Wuhan to infect us Chinese! Even the head of CDC admitted it (see article). 3…

Sigh. Each dumb conspiracy theory in Chinese social media has an equal and opposite dumb conspiracy theory in American social media.

Re: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

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Post by maest »

soneil wrote: post #30
_bxg1 wrote: post #8

Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis. I'm not even sure it's incorrect.

He also sent similar to Iran, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain - which makes it look a little less so, at least to my eye.

It's amazing how much impact leaving this information out has.
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