Global News: United Front groups in Canada helped Beijing stockpile coronavirus safety supplies
In mid-January, Chinese consulates in Canada and worldwide issued an urgent call. China was concerned that the new coronavirus raging in Wuhan was so deadly and infectious that its nurses and doctors would run out of safety supplies.
It needed personal protective equipment (PPE).
In just six weeks, China imported 2.5 billion pieces of epidemic safety equipment, including over two billion safety masks, Chinese government data shows.
And this raises big concerns on a number of fronts, say critics, including Conservative MP Erin O’Toole.
China was evidently hiding the extent of a pandemic that endangered the world while covertly securing PPE at low prices. This “surreptitious” operation left “the world naked with no supply of PPE,” Jorge Guajardo, Mexico’s former ambassador to Beijing, told Global News.
The result: starting in March, after COVID-19 had circled the globe, countries that provided masks to China in January and February were forced to compete for China’s supply.
By late January, sources in manufacturing and military circles were warning western governments that China seemed to be covertly seizing global PPE supply, O’Toole and Guajardo said.
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WNU Editor: This reveals to me that the Chinese government was aware in mid-January that this coronavirus outbreak was deadly serious, and to grab as much PPEs as possible. You do not issue an emergency call and be willing to spend literally billions of dollars unless it was serious. It infuriates me to know that during this same period of time they were telling everyone that the outbreak was not serious, even getting the World Health Organization to agree with their assessment. Sighhh .... my blood pressure is rising again.
Update: The above video is a must see on how China operated in getting all of this medical equipment.
