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2020-10-19 China-Japan-Koreas
China warns it will take Americans hostage if DOJ doesn’t drop charges against researchers
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top
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#1 Yeah, even if they are expats that's a bad idea.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-10-19 00:47||   2020-10-19 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I am worried that China attacks Taiwan on Election Day.
Posted by 3dc 2020-10-19 01:16||   2020-10-19 01:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Thought the Chinese were better traders. There are several hundred thousand adult children of wealthy merchants and high CCP officials in the US.
Posted by Angoluter Thremp3808 2020-10-19 01:38||   2020-10-19 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 This is crazy, it's like some banana republic.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-19 02:05||   2020-10-19 02:05|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by 3dc 2020-10-19 02:07||   2020-10-19 02:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Right now it’s a non-kinetic War we’ve generally not been paying attention to for a couple of decades. But with talk like this, and after hitting us with the COVID-19 Frankenvirus bioweapon, it could easily go hot. Like old-Japan, they’ll regret if they wake the sleeping giant.

We’ve some 20% of world’s COVID-19 deaths, but are less than 5% of world’s population. Reason? The COVID-19 viral strains (there are many worldwide) released in the USA are much more recalcitrant and lethal than those released elsewhere.
Posted by cingold 2020-10-19 03:57||   2020-10-19 03:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The COVID-19 viral strains (there are many worldwide) released in the USA are much more recalcitrant and lethal than those released elsewhere.

Evidence?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-19 03:59||   2020-10-19 03:59|| Front Page Top

#8 It appears that The Lancet considers “metabolic risks”—obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, to be aggravating factors for a higher covid mortality rate.
These Four factors which, we should all know by now, have a higher prevalence in wealthier countries, due to the human disposition in this current era for generally lazy overindulgent behaviour.

"As the Lancet editors note in an accompanying editorial, those statistics are also how COVID-19 turned the US into a country with one of the highest rates of infection and death in the world. "

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-preexisting-conditions-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

Educate yourself before talking shit, aka Commie Stooge.
Posted by Pink Charlie Sperens6603 2020-10-19 05:21||   2020-10-19 05:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't know if this was addressed to me or to cingold. The reply is totally irrelevant to my post, but - it's also irrelevant to cingold's. Because such conditions as Lancet describes (unless they've redacted it by now - they do a lot of it lately) apply to all western countries.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-19 05:46||   2020-10-19 05:46|| Front Page Top

#10 ... And, in fact, New restrictions as Europe surges past 250,000 virus deaths
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-19 05:49||   2020-10-19 05:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Mr. Lockdown has spoken. Heed his qwords
Posted by Frank G 2020-10-19 06:15||   2020-10-19 06:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Historically considered and act of war.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-19 06:32||   2020-10-19 06:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Good. Commence decoupling.
Posted by Ebbainter Ebbaish4837 2020-10-19 06:57||   2020-10-19 06:57|| Front Page Top

#14  Ref #8: .....“metabolic risks”—obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, to be aggravating factors for a higher covid mortality rate. These Four factors which, we should all know by now, have a higher prevalence in wealthier countries, due to the human disposition in this current era for generally lazy overindulgent behaviour.

These factors are at least elements of the equation, coupled with our aging population. Almost as troubling, apparently there is still no Wuhan 'deep dive', definitive explanation, white paper, or legal finding regarding the origins.

Evidently, if you are president of the local bank (hold the notes to all farm loans), owner of the factory, or superintendent of schools, draft deferments for your graduating senior can be more easily arranged. Same smell, little town-big town. Power and influence, money, and lots of it ?

I've seen the movie, perhaps you have as well. Same plot, they're just speaking Chinese in this one.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-19 07:39||   2020-10-19 07:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Of course this assumes that government statistics from all over the world are worth something...I'm not so sure.
Posted by AlanC 2020-10-19 07:48||   2020-10-19 07:48|| Front Page Top

#16 ...the CIA believed them, then the Soviet Union collapsed.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-19 08:24||   2020-10-19 08:24|| Front Page Top

#17 ...the CIA believed them Is that the same CIA that was completely unaware that Soviet subs during the Cuban Missile Crisis had nuclear weapons on board along with high level Soviet commanders who had full authority to launch them as they saw fit? Hat tip: Soviet Navy Vice-Admiral Vasily Arkhipov. I wonder what JFK would have done instead had he known this little fact.
Posted by Dino Omomble9051 2020-10-19 09:40||   2020-10-19 09:40|| Front Page Top

#18 The Lancet, one a reputable medical journal, is no longer a reliable source for anything other than medical gossip and left-wing talking points.
Posted by SteveS 2020-10-19 10:59||   2020-10-19 10:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Almost any adult doing business with the CCP at this point would have it coming to them.
Posted by charger 2020-10-19 12:12||   2020-10-19 12:12|| Front Page Top

#20 We should have been treating China for the past several decades the same way we treated the USSR. But too many Americans were too busy making big bucks with the slave labor that the CCP had to offer. I have little sympathy for those Americans and I'm not sure I could endorse a shooting war on their behalf. I do believe it's way past time for another Cold War.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-10-19 13:49||   2020-10-19 13:49|| Front Page Top

#21 The US had a high death rate because Governor Cuomo is an idiot.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-10-19 16:11||   2020-10-19 16:11|| Front Page Top

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