Politics Chinese company shipped out millions of Australia’s masks, hand sanitiser, glove supplies

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We are still in the dark about many aspects of Covid-19. There remain many questions eg about what caused it. One crucial question is how much the Chinese authorities knew about the problem and what they did to share knowledge to curtail the problem.

From this report it seems that the Chinese government knew the extent of the problem before the rest of the world, and took steps to hide that knowledge and protect themselves at the expense of Australians.

A Chinese government-backed property giant has secretly raided in bulk Australia’s supplies of masks, hand sanitiser, antibacterial wipes and essential medical supplies and shipped them back to China.​
The Greenland Group, which manages high-end real estate projects in Sydney and Melbourne, proactively drained Australian supplies of anti-coronavirus equipment, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Three million surgical masks, 500,000 pairs of gloves and bulk supplies of sanitiser and wipes were bought up in Australia and other countries where Greenland operates.
While the bulk purchases and shipping were perfectly legitimate, the goods shipped in bulk to China include the very items that have been in short supply for Australian citizens as well as health professionals.

They were accumulated at Greenland’s Sydney headquarters and sent to China over weeks in January and February.​

 
It highlights two issues.

1) It is yet more proof that the Chinese govt was and still is lying to the world about the CCP flu and are now responsible for tens of thousands of dead.
2) It proves again that the Chinese companies lie to the FIRB about their independence from the Chinese govt.

So how do we avoid this happening again? What remedies do we have for these property companies who have received approval to invest here under false pretences? I would think a ban on any further property ownership by Chinese companies for at least five years or until the Chinese govt has learnt to act in a civilised manner (like the Chinese people do already ) and these two companies be fined and ordered to sell their properties to non Chinese interests within a short time period.

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We are still in the dark about many aspects of Covid-19. There remain many questions eg about what caused it. One crucial question is how much the Chinese authorities knew about the problem and what they did to share knowledge to curtail the problem.

From this report it seems that the Chinese government knew the extent of the problem before the rest of the world, and took steps to hide that knowledge and protect themselves at the expense of Australians.

A Chinese government-backed property giant has secretly raided in bulk Australia’s supplies of masks, hand sanitiser, antibacterial wipes and essential medical supplies and shipped them back to China.​
The Greenland Group, which manages high-end real estate projects in Sydney and Melbourne, proactively drained Australian supplies of anti-coronavirus equipment, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Three million surgical masks, 500,000 pairs of gloves and bulk supplies of sanitiser and wipes were bought up in Australia and other countries where Greenland operates.
While the bulk purchases and shipping were perfectly legitimate, the goods shipped in bulk to China include the very items that have been in short supply for Australian citizens as well as health professionals.

They were accumulated at Greenland’s Sydney headquarters and sent to China over weeks in January and February.​


This was no secret. You couldn't buy a mask or the like in much for Melbourne for most of January because Chinese living here were buying up stock to send to relatives back home. I hit everywhere from chaddy to fountain gate in one day and came up donuts

On this issue, it's legal but doesn't smell right. They should square the ledger and send stuff to us now given the tables have turned
 
RWNJs:

We're ruining the economy with this overreaction taking precautions against a virus that's killed tens of thousands around the world.

We need to go hard at China with sanctions and tariffs because Chinese legally bought medical supplies and shipped them back to China.
 
They've been stripping shelves of baby food for years.


I thought China was all powerful, all conquering, makes everything, has t-bonds.

All that brainpower, still haven't worked out how to make baby formula.
 
They've been stripping shelves of baby food for years.


I thought China was all powerful, all conquering, makes everything, has t-bonds.

All that brainpower, still haven't worked out how to make baby formula.
Oh, they know how to make baby formula. Unfortunately the producers discovered they could make massive reductions in production costs by cutting it with melamine. The only problem is that babies have a habit of dying from the formula

 

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"Raycist!"

The day when China releases the genetically engineered virus that specifically targets people of European origin, brain damaged white liberals will drown in their own blood while saying it is racist to say that the virus was deliberately released to wipe them out.

And blame their own leaders for deliberately letting them die so that said leaders can push for the creation of fascist states and use this opportunity to increase their already draconian powers.

At least, that's how one brain damaged white liberal explained it to me.
 
So a company had something to sell
A company bought what that company had to sell

The old Supply and Demand trick

Sounds like Capitalism to me
Or in this case, a dictatorship took steps that ensured the spread of a disease by bullying the WHO and other nations into not closing borders and then instructed its companies to hoard medical supplies from those countries that they were helping the virus spread to knowingly weakening their ability to respond. Not calling it a deliberate attack just callous indifference to the rest of the world (just like they had for their own people when they arrested and killed people warning of the virus lasr year).

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Or in this case, a dictatorship took steps that ensured the spread of a disease by bullying the WHO and other nations into not closing borders and then instructed its companies to hoard medical supplies from those countries that they were helping the virus spread to knowingly weakening their ability to respond. Not calling it a deliberate attack just callous indifference to the rest of the world (just like they had for their own people when they arrested and killed people warning of the virus lasr year).

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Yes, but all that happened after the Capitalist system kicked in to facilitate the sale/purchase

Now you may well be proposing we have some form of State Controlled Capitalism to prevent this from happening again.....but isn't that the system the Chinese have now?
 
Yes, but all that happened after the Capitalist system kicked in to facilitate the sale/purchase

Now you may well be proposing we have some form of State Controlled Capitalism to prevent this from happening again.....but isn't that the system the Chinese have now?
No, we just need to treat these.companies for what they are: agencies of.a foreign unfriendly government and if we see a.pandemic coming start banning the export of relevant items unless it is part of govt approved foreign aid.

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No, we just need to treat these.companies for what they are: agencies of.a foreign unfriendly government and if we see a.pandemic coming start banning the export of relevant items unless it is part of govt approved foreign aid.

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So China should ban the export of relevant items too?
 
No, we just need to treat these.companies for what they are: agencies of.a foreign unfriendly government and if we see a.pandemic coming start banning the export of relevant items unless it is part of govt approved foreign aid.

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So you do in fact want some form of State Control......not sure the Capitalists will agree with you
 

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