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China Syndrome

Dec. 8, 2019, 11:56 p.m.
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You infer me wrongly, sir.

Dec. 9, 2019, 3:59 p.m.
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https://tnc.news/2019/11/29/former-bc-mla-alleges-canadian-government-ignored-his-2015-detention-in-china/

Former B.C. MLA Richard Lee was detained for 8 hours, separated from his family & his government issued cellphone searched by Chinese authorities at Shanghai 4 years ago. Then he was forced back onto a plane & sent back to Canada. He told the Canadian government about it but they said nothing until he went public, then they had a comment. The spineless mincing pimp Trudeau has no backbone to stand up to China. Yet another Canadian public official that has sold out to offshore interests.

Dec. 10, 2019, 7:03 a.m.
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This is always the sort of comment that I never really agree with. I could give two shits about Justin, but you name me one Canadian politician who would have the stones to stand up to China. They are like the hand that feeds. Our population and economy pale in comparison.

Dec. 10, 2019, 8:08 a.m.
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What's Trudeau gonna do?   Threaten military action?  Slap tariffs on their goods?  Ask for the UN to impose sanctions?

Dec. 10, 2019, 8:52 a.m.
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Posted by: switch

What's Trudeau gonna do?   Threaten military action?  Slap tariffs on their goods?  Ask for the UN to impose sanctions?

And it's not just Canada.  What is anyone to do?  Trump started his trade war and I don't think it is on Xi's top ten list of things to give a shit about.  We let China leach off the global economy for decades and they banked it.

Dec. 10, 2019, 10:53 a.m.
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Posted by: chupacabra

Posted by: switch

What's Trudeau gonna do?   Threaten military action?  Slap tariffs on their goods?  Ask for the UN to impose sanctions?

And it's not just Canada.  What is anyone to do?  Trump started his trade war and I don't think it is on Xi's top ten list of things to give a shit about.  We let China leach off the global economy for decades and they banked it.

Yup we were all too happy to buy up cheap consumer goods and now just about everything is manufactured over there. We have no clout and neither does the rest of the world. China controls the monopoly board.

Jan. 20, 2020, 5:20 p.m.
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Looks like this one is going to do some damage. I'm sure the number of infected is much higher than what's being reported.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51171035

Jan. 20, 2020, 8:47 p.m.
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Posted by: Brocklanders

Looks like this one is going to do some damage. I'm sure the number of infected is much higher than what's being reported.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51171035

How much longer till it arrives here?

Jan. 21, 2020, 7:48 a.m.
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Posted by: ReductiMat

Posted by: Brocklanders

Looks like this one is going to do some damage. I'm sure the number of infected is much higher than what's being reported.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51171035

How much longer till it arrives here?

Air travel is the best way to catch a virus, so when you land you don't even know you are sick. This screening system that YVR is using is laughable. Do they have eye scanners like in I am legend?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnzito1Nz-0

Jan. 21, 2020, 11:21 a.m.
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Very close.

https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/01/21/first-wuhan-coronavirus-case-reported-in-washington-state/

Jan. 21, 2020, 1:02 p.m.
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Remember when the Pilgrims gave out pox infused bedlinen?

Jan. 21, 2020, 2:19 p.m.
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How weird is this?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1219322525240479745

Jan. 21, 2020, 4:44 p.m.
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Posted by: tungsten

Remember when the Pilgrims gave out pox infused bedlinen?

Don’t start, wife and I spoke of that last night.

Jan. 21, 2020, 5:52 p.m.
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Posted by: Brocklanders

How weird is this?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1219322525240479745

Gets even weirder

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-strange-tale-of-the-paid-protesters-supporting-meng-wanzhou-at-her-trial-1.5434613

Jan. 22, 2020, 4:28 a.m.
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I didn’t think it was weird, nor surprising. Typical really.

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