The states of Missouri and Mississippi have recently filed suit against the government of China alleging the country did not do enough to stop the outbreak of the coronavirus. How do you think China should be held accountable for the pandemic?
Please choose your top three.
I’d love to comment, but using a tablet, I can’t write a paragraph and post it before something malfunctions and I lose my text.
US should negotiate with an allied country or countries to purchase the debt from China and trade heavily with those allied countries. Make those countries rich and strengthen our defenses along with theirs.
Filing a lawsuit against China is pointless because if a favorable judgement was obtained, China would never pay up. Seizing their assets in our country and cancelling the debt are tangible, obtainable outcomes.
I was blocked from answering the last three questions
DON’T PAY BACK OUR DEBT TO CHINA
As far as I’m concerned what China did was an act of war not only in the US but all over the globe. All countries should immediately ban companies from doing business in China and given a deadline to withdraw all their investments and interests from China. If they remain in China they can not do business in the country of origin. All products from China should be banned in the US until China is cut down to size and never able to expand to a superpower ever again. They had something planned for world dominance, building islands with military bases and a huge Naval Fleet in China was the beginning of bad things to come on the world stage. Now is the best time to put a lid on it. Financially (other than war ) will hurt them the most. Even though personally I feel we were attacked worse than 911 and Pearl Harbor from China and probably should go in and take out their new military base on the island they built in the Pacific and seize all their assets in the US.
Do not agree with Trump/Pompeo making comments that they think virus leaked from lab. They should not be making any statements public like this until all of their intelligence put the story together & then they should be talking to China in public. It is knee jerk reaction to blame someone else at this time
All of the actions listed in the poll should be taken by the United States.
I understand the cheap things coming from China and I do not blame China for that.Now that our country is in debt to China let all the Millonaires and Billionaires dump their money into the US treasury and have some honest people handle it.
Any product that is manufactured in countries with no air quality laws should be required to meet USA rules to be imported to USA.
Who was in charge in the USA when all these companies moved off shore so they could get cheap labor and thumb their nose at even the basic air quality standards.
The American consumer could and should be aware of where products are made and demand medicine and tech products be made in USA or a friendlier country.
We should stop and think about we depend so much on a country that any logical thinker knows is not our friend, tries to hack our computer system, and flood our country with inferior products.
Is it true, in the past the USSR and now Communist China would not exist if it wasn’t for the US and Europe? All of our Presidents starting with Carter (along with the US Chamber of Commerce, Walmart, Apple, Nike, GM, 3M, Boeing, etc.) have all sold off the US citizens and tax payers futures for their profits and greed. I wish someone would tell me why Communist Democrats hate America and Americans. They care more for Illegal Aliens (30 M) and Refugees who send remittances back to their homeland instead of growing the US economy. We have had a War Criminal start two wars of choice to create new refuges (neo-slavery) who the Communist Democrats harvest for votes with bribes of welfare (like LBJ did with the Great Society welfare program, 200 M votes!). The conservatives then get their “30 pieces of silver” with corporate welfare. All at the expense of the US tax payer. In addition, we had a President receive a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, He continued the two wars of choice, Why haven’t the Swedes asked him to return it? Back to Communist China. Not paying our debts will destroy the US dollar! Filing lawsuits will only serve the attorneys and judges. Countries would only get about 10% on every dollar spent and wait another generation for payment. The only reasonable and fair solution is for all countries that have been affected by the Communist China Party virus (AKA Chinese virus) (partially funded with US tax dollars and a lab designed by a French architect) is to do what the Marxist/Socialist/Communist/Liberals would do: Nationalize all Chinese assets around the world (ports, dams, roads, railroads, real estate, airports, and businesses like the Smithfield meat packing plant along with voiding all leases). Basically, the World vs China for compensation. If these assets are nationalized it would eventually destroy the China Empire and turn it back to a country of peasants and no threat to the rest of the World (future colonies). Food for thought!
Something should be done to China for causing this pandemic. It is obvious that it wasn’t an accident. None of their government was infested and they were next to ground 0 It was a viral attack on the world and they should pay for deploying it.
Trump was called a racist because he shut down flights from China…Hellow..China kills their own citizens….we need to seize their property here in the United States, that would be way more painful to them and more expensive than forgiving the 1 trillion dollar debt. And we should try our best not to buy anything from China.
ASAP bring our businesses back to the U. S., even if their goods go up in price. Put a strangle hold on China. No friend of ours.
President Trump needs to meet (in private) with all those who are profiting from cheap labor in a country that has no interest in the value of the individual and the desire of that individual to be free and, 1. Review what China has done for the last 40 years or so and ask them if their short term profits are worth risking freedom in the long term and, 2. Ask them if they will join him in a plan as Reagan did when confronted with the attacks from the Soviet Union? The central goal of the plans that were developed was simple: “We win! You lose!” Because companies found out what the Soviet Union was doing the government and corporate America worked together to undermine the economics of the Soviet Union and carried it out over a number of years. Suing, bluster, going to court and almost all of what is listed in your survey and talked about by politicians who say they want to do something about the efforts to destroy freedom in this world is not a plan but a knee jerk reaction that will mostly be used to retain seats in Congress and make lawyers more rich with this “wonderful” result–nothing will change (although a lot of bluster and threats could lead to major warfare). The fundamental mistake we have made in dealing with China is to believe that China wants to be prosperous and share in the wealth that is afforded from good, honest work with the rest of us. They want power and unless we have a plan that is agreed upon by the majority in government and private companies we will lose even more freedom than we have lost in the last 30-40 years. China has had a plan and has been implementing it over the last 30 years while we have been dreaming about good will. What has happened is not a dream but a nightmare. We have many who are getting rich while making our Rust Belts and destroying small businesses: They will need to have a change of heart if this is to work as Reagan’s plan did in the 80’s. Do I think we are up to it? I have grave doubts!!!
It always frustrated me to go shopping for certain things and only have one choice, made in China. Whenever I have the choice, I always pay more and choose made in America. The positive externality is jobs for American kids and more tax revenue for the country. For example, we purchased an electric heater made in Ohio over a Chinese made unit. Although it cost more, we were happy to support brother and sister Americans in Ohio. Wake up America before it’s too late!
I chose freezing Chinese assets due to the fact that any world/global organization will never do what is right if the USA is the offended party. That includes the UN, WHO and the World Court.
We have several politicians that are giving lip service and posturing to make China Pay on both sides of the isle by canceling the debt we owe them , refuse to pay interest on debt and this goes on and on . Problem with the push is the US can not default on any debt what’s so ever. You think the economy has taken a hit now do this and run to the hills. Theres a push for individuals to file suits against the dragon also. That won’t work either as the laws will take forever to strip em of their sovereignty and then you have to collect.. Good luck with that….There is a way…
There is an Organization called The American Bondholders foundation (ABF) which has been trying to collect on China’s defaulted debt for the past 2 decades. Go to their web site and educate yourself. In the short, they represent over 20,000 Americans who hold debt in Gold Loan Barer Bonds. With standard calculations they are valued in excess of 1 trillion dollars in today gold prices. The group met with # 45 in August 2018 and presented a proposal to the US government. You will see this come to life with on the next several days with it hitting the news . It is the only way “legally “ the US can sting the Dragon and can be done immediately with 45 s signature. His only road block is his globalist pro China Secretary of the Treasury’. Watch Steve Bannon’s post Cast 5/4/20 And get educated.
We need to totally sever ties with China. Our pharmaceutical companies need to as well. We cannot trust their manufacture of anything we ingest. The financial loss our country has suffered from the Wuhan Virus, technology theft, etc. should be deducted from our debt to them, and any Chinese interest of any kind in our country needs to be confiscated immediately. Any other companies with any interest in China need to terminate and return to the USA.
Once Trump is re-elected, he can require the country of origin on products. Then we can go back to buying made in the USA. If any part of the product is made in another country, that needs to included.
Since the dems think socialism to communism would be so great and they would be at the top, lets send them our democrats to China. China can support them and teach them, NO, they will not be at the top. They must keep them forever within their country.
If central american countries could clean up their corruption and cartels we could relocate our mfg there and eliminate a lot of poverty and possibly slow down illigal immigration as well.
lets hope the world finally wakes up to who China really is
we need to see this cover 19 as an act of aggression against the west this is part of their long game and now they know they don’t need scary nuclear Armageddon, they can weaponize these terrorist Chinese by carrying these viruses to the west.
China has enormous control of not only manufacturing, but distribution of goods between countries. They own or control vast number of sea ports, ships, cargo containers, and the electronic infrastructure that controls the flow of these assets as well as access to shipyards via facial recognition software. Wherever possible China has installed 5G networks to control the flow of information which also gives them virtually unlimited cyber-espionage capabilities. All of those assets outside the borders of China proper should be forfeited and controlled by a board of representatives from the respected countries. As long as China has control of these vast and vital assets we are in danger of retaliation by them for any financial loss we may impose on them. We, the west, not China, must control the seas as a means of distribution and commerce
I agree that we should control what we do. It is obvious during and after all this that relying on a country like China for manufacturing is not a good idea. Start at least to recind all tax or other benefits for companies to invest in China.
China is not a friend, communist China is an adversary.
China has been cheating, manipulating money, stealing intellectual property and lies Ilinois the way to the bank, President Trump should keep on the track of bringing our jobs back along with American and other western corporations to take their business out of China to punish communist regime , Chinese people need a revolution to get rid of oppressive hateful bigoted intolerant communist party.
I have my suspicion that China intentionally released Covan 19 but not before launching a plausible denial plan. If so, this is an act of war.
I BELIEVE THAT SUPER DRASTIC REMEDIES WILL ONLY INCITE WORLDWIDE ANGER AND REACTION. I KNOW NO ONE CAN COME RIGHT OUT AND SUGGEST THAT CHINA WAS NOT ALSO A VICTIM OF AN “”ACCIDENT”” , BUT PERHAPS THE DELIBERATE PROMOTER OF THIS VIRUS——-THINK NOT??? BLIND???? ALL MUST BE CONSIDERED. BUT RIGHTEOUSLY—CHINA IS RESONSIBLE—–NO MATTER WHAT. DIRECT COMPENSATION WOULD PAY BACK OUR TREASURY FOR THE MULTIPLE BILLIONS TAX PAYERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO REIMBURSE. CHINA IS SLOWLY—INCHING ITS WAY INTO OUR UNIVERCITIES—BUSINESSES==REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS ALLOVER AMERICA—-BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA—-HOW MUCH OF AMERICA IS OWNED BY AMERICANS???
It’s not “just” China i.e. The World Heath Organization hands also have blood on them because they, like China, were engaged in an elaborate campaign of deception. China knew long before they told the world and the fact they banned air travel in China in order to contain the virus, the continued allowing international fights out of Wuhan. The cover- up was deliberate and learning about same could easily convince a reasonable man that China’s Govt intended to use their epidemic to cause a pandemic and cripple world economies. Important note re the $1 trillion plus US DEBT/money we owe China: If we failed to honor the agreement the other nations that we owe money to could all decide to “cash-in” US Treasury Bonds that they are holding and this would not only cause US Dollar drastically lose value and could displace the US Dollar from The Worlds Reserve Currency; I think one of the reasons why our US Dollar has maintained World Reserve Currency is due to the Trillions of dollars we owe countries around the world
Yesterday my husband saw Sen Tom Cotton speak as a guest on Fox News. His idea is that America needs to ban Chinese students from studying science and technology in American colleges and universities, especially at the post graduate levels. We do know that China is most certainly NOT our friend in any way, and I think this is a valid idea. One of my brothers is a Professor of Entomology who has worked with foreign students in his department for years. He has said that of all his students, those from China are the most difficult and unpleasant to work with because they regard Americans as their intellectual inferiors. They’re more than willing to take our ideas and successes home to China and then continue the research on them, followed by filing patents on what was originally our intellectual research. I don’t think they even understand the concept of ethics.
How MANY of our politicians, corporate CEOs and media are on the Chinese payroll?
This could only be described as an act of WAR. We as citizens should focus on buying American of course that’s going to be hard, therefore we need to stop complete dealings
with China . We could start by not paying them for what we owe them and by confiscating the assets they have in our country. Start a coalition with all countries that were affected by the WUHAN VIRUS ,LETS MAKE CHINA PAY…
China and their people in any position within the U.N, WHO or othe institutions need to be removed from key positions. Chinese nationals hold key positions in the U.N including setting rules for telecommunications, agriculture, etc. They are also on the Humanitarium Committee and they have the worst human rights violations against their people. This is a country that seeks to spread their influence to bring their communist agenda and control to the world.
Ridiculous Poll, after I choose an answer, I then read choose your top 3
This was no different than pearl harbor, there should be Swift and blinding punishment for this communist biological warfare attack.
So tired of all of these gutless decisions, grow a pair. General Patton would have known what the correct response should be.
Not my original idea, but one of the most visible I have heard: The Winter Olympics are scheduled for Beijing in 2022. They must be moved.
The Chi-Coms will not pay any award from a law suit in any court. The counter-attack must be more direct. And any measure to make the Chi-Coms pay by harming the Chinese people will not work; like other dictatorial regimes, the Chi-Coms simply will commandeer all they want from their people.
Consider a radical revision of the U.N.: a new charter that excludes China from the Security Council. These criminal psychopathic Chi-Coms should not be permitted to play sheriff on the Security Council while simultaneously attempting the mass murders of everyone else on the planet.
Removing the Chi-Coms from the Security Council will not require any cooperation from the Chi-Coms. And the removal of the Chi-Coms from the Security will reduce their ability to corrupt international institutions and would punish the Chi-Coms, not the Chinese people.
China, because it is a Communist country, will not pay anything. They have been stealing the patents to other car companies’ for years. They were sued and paid nothing. The best way to do this is freeze all Chinese held assets in every country effected and get some kind of pay back from that. Communist dictators don’t care about human life in any form except theirs. Their own people man nothing to them. Don’t depend on their human compassion because they have none.
After reading all posts. I believe we have screwed ourselves as a Nation by getting into bed with coommunist China.
Every company doing business with China should be taxed by the USA so heavily, it will make doing business with them a loosing deal.
We ( The USA ) need to start producing all our own pharmaceuticals. Along with every other product we allow to come into the USA from a communist country like Chima. Cut off the head of the serpent. The USA has allowed this to happen to us by our own past government dealings long before our President Trump. President Trump has tried to reverse as much as possible so far.
But our President should cut off all Chinese people from entering into our Country. And get all Chinese nationals out of America. America needs to produce all our products and pharmaceuticals. USA needs to be able to live on all our own products and food grown in the US.
Not buying anything outside the US. That includes all companies ( even American ) using labor outside the US to bring it back home to America and American labor.
The pandemic caused by China should be considered an act of war against the USA. It has been proved it was a man made virus by China used to kill not only America’s but others all over the world. Communist have declared vital war against us and the world. No one wants to say this. But it’s the truth communist china made a viral terrorist attack of war on the USA and the world.
Whatever happens China will disregard. The only way is to produce previous Chinese made here in this country. I’m willing to pay more for our drugs and clothing etc.
Obliterate them from the earth. Then do the same to North Korea. Why do we even bother with these maggots.
I am impressed with my American brothers and sisters for the most intelligent and sensitive responses to the China situation. America should not divest from China in anger, (though we certainly are), carefully pulling back from China smartly and expediently so that we don’t create a retribution reaction from them. Remember we are in a debt crises that we can never pay our way out of! (yes, so is most of Europe and other countries). Our President and his leaders are on an action course to establish America once again, to be the leaders of the free World. I think we all should understand there is no solution, magic formula, economic science, government bail out, or any other way America can get out of this financial crises – – – NONE! It will take a miracle not to have a great depression, that will be the worst in American History. America has from its roots been established as a God believing, fearing nation. It was established as “One nation under God”, and on our coins, “In God we Trust”. Where have all the faithful gone? When the Towers were brought down the country had a revival of sorts, it slowly faded away. Now we are in a trial period called the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s not what is causing America’s most crushing problems, it’s just a “trigger”to our economic crises, of unpayable debt. So, what is the answer? – – – I suspect some of you will frown at the answer, but here is my hope.
“If my people which are called by my Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7 :14. “This is how we won the second World War, when many knowledgeable historians thought we were not prepared to win, but God!
I am a 83 year old retired Army MP Veteran – – – and I’m praying for my America to have God heal our land.
They should allow all the debt owed by the USA to them to be forgiven.
They wanted to hurt the USA’S economy’. They purposely caused this pandemic to spread to the USA.
And to the rest of the world.
It was and act I of war against the USA and every other Country.
The other Country should decide on their own. But the USA should take action against them, for all the people they killed with the man made
COVID – 19.
I believe that it is no coincidence that the Chinese virus “outbreak” occurred in the same city in which the Chinese military chemical/biological warfare laboratory is located. I also believe that the release of the virus was not “accidental”. The ChiComs knew how devastating a world-wide epidemic would be, and the economic havoc it would cause the US. That numbers of their own people were infected and died is of no consequence.
The communist system places no value on individual human life, including their own people. If it cost them a few thousand deaths (out of a vast population) to bring down the US, and to reduce the effectiveness of the US military in the South China Sea region, to them that is a small price. As for obtaining “relief” by suing China (either by US states or the nation, or a collection of nations) I would have greater success requiring my cat to recite the collected works of Shakespeare. The only place the ChiComs can be hurt is by a) meaningful economic penalties (including removing all US manufacturing from China), b) a strong and highly visible military presence in SE Asia. Deporting Chinese citizens from the US (as suggested down the page) would be ineffective because a) there are some who want to be escape the ChiCom regime and become Americans, b) many who wish us harm would carry away our science and technology with them, c) US university graduate schools (especially engineering, where I spent a career as a professor) would lose their “slave labor” pool for the “research” the schools must produce [I speak from experience, even if a little tongue-in-cheek] in order to survive. President Trump has done a magnificent job handling this crisis with no playbook or precedence to call on. Just imagine if Biden were president. The only demand he would make of the ChiComs is that they give his children many more lucrative business contracts. Hillary would have required the ChiComs to make a big “donation” to her “Foundation” , and the issue would be forgiven and forgotten.
I replied to O’Boyle’s comment because I found it hits the target and I am encouraged by the fact that there are people, many of us, feel the same way. I am very pessimistic because I think we are approaching stage 4. It’s been along time coming. I’ not sure where “A journey of a 1,000 miles begins with one step” but at this point I’m not sure we have the unity to turn it around.
1) Chinese companies should be BARRED from swooping in to the USA with cash to buy cash strapped US companies. 2) The US government MUST tell China that is abrogating its debt and will NOT compensate China for the Treasuries its central bank holds. 3) All Chinese students here in the USA should be expelled IMMEDIATELY without compensation for losses incurred. 4) All tourism from China post pandemic must be suspended. 5) All Chinese assets, but especially those held in the USA must be frozen or seized outright pending resolution of ALL CLAIMS by the people of the USA, the states and federal government.
The USA should encourage our allies to do the same in their countries. China should be suspended from the Security Council at the UN. If China does not make restitution and compensation, it should be EXPELLED from the UN and ALL OTHER INTERNATIONAL BODIES.
CHINA MUST be SEVERELY PUNISHED for this, to include ISOLATION on the WORLD STAGE.
The US needs to become self-sufficient and not rely on essential products from other countries. Communist China should immediately forgive all debts owed, its financial assets frozen and immediate trade cut off till this can be resolved.
Most countries have done business with the Devil (Communist China) and are now paying the price in sickness and “death” for cheap and in many cases dangerous goods.
Would like to see our scientists and others allowed in to see what really happened…Know this is an impossibility but think this was China-made that either got out of hand or they wanted to see what they could do to us and the outcome…This isn’t over yet…
Very sad that we find ourselves in this situation. I am so angry that our legislators allowed so much of our necessary items to be manufactured in China. I am
sure that is why so many of them got rich, very rich from all the payouts under the table.