{"id":7042,"date":"2020-04-03T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:16:28","slug":"coronavirus-china-floods-europe-with-defective-medical-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/04\/03\/coronavirus-china-floods-europe-with-defective-medical-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China Floods Europe With Defective Medical Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/04\/03\/coronavirus-china-floods-europe-with-defective-medical-equipment\/spain-health-virus\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7043\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/275-china-medical-equipment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/275-china-medical-equipment.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/275-china-medical-equipment-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A growing number of countries are reporting that millions of pieces of medical equipment donated by, or purchased from, China to defeat the pandemic are defective and unusable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Coronavirus: China Floods Europe With Defective Medical Equipment<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15840\/china-defective-medical-equipment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | April 3, 2020<\/p>\n<p>As the coronavirus rages across Europe, a growing number of countries are reporting that millions of pieces of medical equipment donated by, or purchased from, China to defeat the pandemic are defective and unusable.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations are fueling distrust of a public relations effort by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Communist Party to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15776\/coronavirus-china-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">portray<\/a> China as the world\u2019s new humanitarian superpower.<\/p>\n<p>On March 28, the Netherlands was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/nos.nl\/artikel\/2328673-honderdduizenden-chinese-mondmaskers-teruggeroepen-uit-nederlandse-ziekenhuizen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recall<\/a> 1.3 million face masks produced in China because they did not meet the minimum safety standards for medical personnel. The so-called KN95 masks are a less expensive Chinese alternative to the American-standard N95 mask, which currently is in short supply around the world. The KN95 does not fit on the face as tightly as the N95, thus potentially exposing medical personnel to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15840\/china-defective-medical-equipment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of countries are reporting that millions of pieces of medical equipment donated by, or purchased from, China to defeat the pandemic are defective and unusable.<\/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":[42,9,171],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-crisis","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-geopolitics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coronavirus: China Floods Europe With Defective Medical Equipment - 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