Current Affairs China and its treatment of minorities

[Brennan]

...then 9th March in Lombardy; 23rd March in Britian.

Isn't that months?

You consider 6 weeks to be months ?

And that's ignoring the fact that by mid Feb the virus was rife in Italy, mainly caused by travellers to/from China whose movements weren't restricted until nearly a month after the outbreak was reported to Chinese authorities.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

You think the west dont do that? They perfected colonialism and continued it into the "post" colonial era.

Bottom line: I wish we were part of the Health Silk Road that China are building in unison with other nations in Europe and Africa. Maybe we'd have a testing kit by now if we were...and our nurses and doctors gear to protect themselves?

I dont care about China. I dont cut them slack for their domestic and expansionist foreign policy. I look at things pragmatically.

Dont just swallow the cold war nonsense our government throw at us...a government that's failed and is failing to protect us.

I'm not swallowing anything mate, as I say I work with commissions across the continent so have first hand experience of what is happening.

Our colonial past is something of an embarrassment and a strong motivator for many doing great development work in Africa. The Chinese use aid as the tip of a big wedge with the back end often unseen or not understood. Its a useful PR tool and smokescreen for the them but don't let it confuse you as to what is actually happening.

 

[davek]

You consider 6 weeks to be months ?

And that's ignoring the fact that by mid Feb the virus was rife in Italy, mainly caused by travellers to/from China whose movements weren't restricted until nearly a month after the outbreak was reported to Chinese authorities.

6 weeks? Where does 6 weeks come into it?

23 January to 23rd March.

Is that 6 weeks in your calculations?

 

[davek]

I'm not swallowing anything mate, as I say I work with commissions across the continent so have first hand experience of what is happening.

Our colonial past is something of an embarrassment and a strong motivator for many doing great development work in Africa. The Chinese use aid as the tip of a big wedge with the back end often unseen or not understood. Its a useful PR tool and smokescreen for the them but don't let it confuse you as to what is actually happening.

Past? What are you on about? It;s not in the past. Debt owned to western financial isntitutions controls many economies in the third world. You KNOW that.

Please dont insult yourself and me by trying to hold up a false dichotomy between the west and China.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Past? What are you on about? It;s not in the past. Debt owned to western financial isntitutions controls many economies in the third world. You KNOW that.

Please dont insult yourself and me by trying to hold up a false dichotomy between the west and China.

OK mate

 

[Brennan]

6 weeks? Where does 6 weeks come into it?

23 January to 23rd March.

Is that 6 weeks in your calculations?

You mentioned Italy.

You seem to have ignored the fact that Chinese travellers to Italy from China prior to the 23rd of January was the cause of the outbreak there, and cases were seen in early February.

Time to build a firewall ? Chinese inaction allowed the virus to proliferate to other continents with ease.

 

[COYBL25]

Nice to see that @davek has got his Little Red Book out again.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

You mentioned Italy.

You seem to have ignored the fact that Chinese travellers to Italy from China prior to the 23rd of January was the cause of the outbreak there, and cases were seen in early February.

Time to build a firewall ? Chinese inaction allowed the virus to proliferate to other continents with ease.

Not just inaction mate but more concerning is the deception. That is what the west will go at if there is a fall out once we come out of this mess, in my opinion.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Nice to see that @davek has got his Little Red Book out again.

Website needs some little red signs that pop up saying "Warning, dangerous individual about to post!"

 

[COYBL25]

Website needs some little red signs that pop up saying "Warning, dangerous individual about to post!"

He`s deffo losing it.

I know he likes to wum, but anyone praising China needs a referral.

 

[davek]

You mentioned Italy.

You seem to have ignored the fact that Chinese travellers to Italy from China prior to the 23rd of January was the cause of the outbreak there, and cases were seen in early February.

Time to build a firewall ? Chinese inaction allowed the virus to proliferate to other continents with ease.

23rd January - 23rd March.

That used to be known as "two months" when I was a lad....devalued by 2 weeks now though. Every day's a school day...

 

[Axlswhk]

I'm praising them for something very specific: their reaction (and action) in their fight against this virus.

Maybe you devalue any aid to countries in Europe and Africa that is helping save lives, but I dont.

When anyone puts ideological purity over the well being of other human beings it's they/you who has "lost it".

Basically everyone of your post is crap.

It’s fine to criticise Europe and the States, but to use China as a shiny example is plain stupidity.

Have you heard of a country name Taiwan? Fancy using them as example?

 

[COYBL25]

Basically everyone of your post is crap.

It’s fine to criticise Europe and the States, but to use China as a shiny example is plain stupidity.

Have you heard of a country name Taiwan? Fancy using them as example?

Boom !

 

[davek]

Basically everyone of your post is crap.

It’s fine to criticise Europe and the States, but to use China as a shiny example is plain stupidity.

Have you heard of a country name Taiwan? Fancy using them as example?

A woeful response.

I'll ask you a question I've posed above: if China offered to hand vital equipment to this country to help with the fight agianst this virus - protective gear, ventilators, testing kits - would you refuse it?

Like it or not, that is what the Chinese are doing. They are the only nation out there taking a lead.

I dont care about "shiny examples". I care about lives saved. Are you that much caught up in a yellow peril cold war mindset that you'd fail to concede the argument on this?

 

[davek]

Boom !

More like "Pffft".