{"id":7023,"date":"2020-04-25T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:10:51","slug":"coronavirus-china-continues-to-flood-the-world-with-defective-medical-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/04\/25\/coronavirus-china-continues-to-flood-the-world-with-defective-medical-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China Continues to Flood the World with Defective Medical Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/04\/25\/coronavirus-china-continues-to-flood-the-world-with-defective-medical-supplies\/france-health-virus-transport\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7024\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/353-china-medical-equipment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/353-china-medical-equipment.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/353-china-medical-equipment-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>More than a dozen countries on four continents have disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Coronavirus: China Continues to Flood the World with Defective Medical Supplies<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15917\/china-defective-medical-supplies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | April 25, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Gatestone Institute recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15840\/china-defective-medical-equipment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that millions of pieces of medical equipment purchased from China by European governments to combat the coronavirus pandemic are defective and unusable.<\/p>\n<p>Since that report, more than a dozen countries on four continents have disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment. The problems range from face masks tainted with the coronavirus to medical garments contaminated with insects.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have refused to take responsibility for the defective equipment and in many instances have cast blame on the countries that purchased the material. They have also called on nations of the world to stop \u201cpoliticizing\u201d the problem \u2014 at the same time that Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Communist Party have sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-asserts-claim-to-global-leadership-mask-by-mask-11585752077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leverage<\/a> the pandemic to assert a claim to global leadership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15917\/china-defective-medical-supplies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen countries on four continents have disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[60,184,180,42,140,9,183,171,56,182,197,200,175],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-crisis","tag-austria","tag-belgium","tag-britain","tag-china","tag-czech-republic-2","tag-europe","tag-finland","tag-geopolitics","tag-ireland","tag-netherlands","tag-slovakia","tag-turkey","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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