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Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by Herolly(m): 10:46am On Apr 20, 2020
GERMANY has rattled China after joining the United Kingdom, France, and the United States in a rare attack after Berlin called out Beijing’s responsibility for the global pandemic and even issued a £130bn invoice.

The country has sparked outrage in China after a major newspaper put together a £130bn invoice that Beijing “owes” Berlin following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Germany has followed France, the UK and the US in directing its coronavirus anger at China, where the virus originated. Recent attacks come amid findings that Beijing appeared to cover up the true scale of the crisis, as the source of the outbreak remains a mystery
On Saturday, Donald Trump warned that China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for unleashing the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump told reporters: “It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering because of it.

“If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, then there should be consequences.
He said the Chinese were “embarrassed” and the question was whether what happened with the coronavirus was “a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”

President Trump and his senior aides have repeatedly accused China of lacking transparency.

This week the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak started, revised its number of fatalities by a sudden 50% jump in the figure.

The UK has joined US intelligence officials in investigating claims that the virus originated in a Wuhan virus lab and not a wet market.
According to Express, a bombshell op-ed this week in Germany’s largest tabloid newspaper, Bild, joined this outrage by drawing up an itemised invoice for €149bn (£130b)
The list includes a €27 billion charge for lost tourism revenue, up to €7.2 billion for the German film industry, a million euros an hour for German airline Lufthansa and €50 billion for German small businesses.

Bild calculated that this amounts to €1,784 (£1,550) per person if Germany’s GDP falls by 4.2 percent, under the title “What China owes us.”
China responded by claiming the invoice “stirs up xenophobia and nationalism”.

Bild Editor-in-Chief Julian Reichelt rebutted the criticism, saying: “We asked in our newspaper Bild whether China should pay for the massive economic damage the coronavirus is inflicting worldwide.

“Xi Jinping, your government and your scientists had to know long ago that coronavirus is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it.

“Your top experts didn’t respond when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan.
“You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace.”
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Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by sammyj: 10:48am On Apr 20, 2020
grin
Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by Powerintoxicate: 10:55am On Apr 20, 2020
If the Chinese refuse to pay what will happen?
Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by kiddkash(m): 10:55am On Apr 20, 2020
trump moves others follows

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Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by DCmonster: 11:07am On Apr 20, 2020
Lol!
Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by Staro: 11:16am On Apr 20, 2020
China should be made to pay
for this pandemic

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Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by GamalNasser: 11:18am On Apr 20, 2020
When the west is done with China they will know they should not have connived with Dr Fauci , I know the American bill will be over a trillion dollars

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Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by ab1x: 11:23am On Apr 20, 2020
Powerintoxicate:
If the Chinese refuse to pay what will happen?

Full blown war
Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by ogmask: 11:29am On Apr 20, 2020
ab1x:


Full blown war

Lol... There wil always be a way around it. But China nor try sha
Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by valirex: 11:44am On Apr 20, 2020
After this Covid issue, China will realize they are all alone
Re: Germany Sends China £130bn Bill For ‘coronavirus Damages by Biafrarep(m): 11:44am On Apr 20, 2020
Wow, I'm loving this. The EU should join hands with US, Japan, India and Australia among other influential countries to make China pay for this calamity they unleashed on the world.

This evil country should be brought down to its knees!!

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