Monday, June 08, 2020

Wait - Why Are We Relying On China Again?

Made in Canada pandemic masks promised “within weeks” will not be available through an anticipated second wave of infections by Labour Day, says the Department of Industry. “The work is not done,” said Mitch Davies, senior assistant deputy minister: “Obviously this is important.”


Because Canada can't refuse its Chinese boss.


This China:

 


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If there is one expression that illustrates this difference in attitude towards quality standards, it is “Cha Bu Duo”, which can be translated as “not far off” or “close enough”.


For these guys, however, Cha Bu Duo, is not good enough:

In a highly unusual YouTube appearance as part of an apparent publicity campaign by the fugitive billionaire Guo Wengui, one of the Chinese government’s most reviled opponents, Hao read an 18-point manifesto for a vision of a “New Federal State of China.” Sitting for an accompanying hour-long interview alongside his wife, the badminton champion Ye Zhaoying, Hao launched into lengthy criticisms of the government’s handling of almost every domestically sensitive subject: Hong Kong, Tibet, the coronavirus pandemic.

“This Communist Party should be kicked out of humanity,” Hao declared in videos released Thursday, on the politically sensitive ­anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

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China used a very strict lockdown and was not very transparent about information,” said Taiwan’s point man in Ottawa, Winston Wen-yi Chen.

“Was it more effective? I would say no. Look at Taiwan. We were open and transparent and protected our people.”


 
(Merci)


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