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superpatriotman

(6,254 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 02:50 PM Mar 2020

We need China

Like it or not Chinese pharmaceutical companies supply between 80 percent and 90 percent of U.S. antibiotics, 70 percent of acetaminophen and about 40 percent of heparin, according to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Though now, at least one Chinese official is blaming the U.S. for the Covid-19 virus:

A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, Zhao Lijian, tweeted yesterday that “it might be the US army” that brought the coronavirus to China, giving an official boost to a conspiracy theory that had been allowed to circulate on Chinese social media for weeks. The conspiracy posits that 300 athletes from the US military who in October attended the 7th Military World Games in Wuhan, where the epidemic first broke out, were infected with the virus, thereby spreading it in China.


https://qz.com/1817736/china-fuels-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-blaming-us-army/

Crazed conspiracy theories are universal!
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We need China (Original Post) superpatriotman Mar 2020 OP
Which came first? The chicken or the egg? keithbvadu2 Mar 2020 #1
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