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After COVID-19 made its way to Italy, decimating the country’s significant elderly population, China told the world it would donate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to help Italy stop its spread. Reports later indicated that China had actually sold, not donated, the PPE to Italy. A senior Trump administration official tells The Spectator that it is much worse than that: China forced Italy to buy back the PPE supply that it gave to China during the initial coronavirus outbreak.
’Before the virus hit Europe, Italy sent tons of PPE to China to help China protect its own population,’ the administration official explained. ’China then has sent Italian PPE back to Italy ‐ some of it, not even all of it ... and charged them for it.’
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