Didn’t say they stole them.. We were preparing our heath system for the rona to swamp us Feb right? Just used a lot of masks during the fires.. We now don’t have enough supply and we now know during that important preparation phase our supplies were sent out the back door via the ccp soft infulence.. The same ccp that lied and hid the virus for months.. How exactly do you think the general public will react to that?
That’s why the story was published in is in the public interest.. Personally I am interested in the infulence issue, not the humanitarian aspect of it.
And btw the CCP should be supplying the world with medical supplies, they created this mess. They should be footing the economic bill as well..
They didn't go out any backdoor, that's a mischaracterisation of what happened.
They bought them on the public market, just like Australia is doing in China now and other countries. I have people close to me who are directly involved in that effort. As I said, 20+ million masks and assorted PPE arrived in Australia from another country not 24hrs ago. Why is China any different to us?
How will the general public react? Probably ignorantly indignant and outraged because people are mischaracterising the situation as an act of deceit when it was nothing of the sort. They publicised the fact that they were doing it, as they were doing it. They hid nothing and it was clear that they were acting on behalf of their govt.
As was mentioned up the page, the interesting issue is that this company was able to pivot, forego profit making and act on govt direction. That's because it is an arm of the CCP, it's a state owned enterprise controlled by the Shanghai provincial govt. This is the kind of issue countries need to consider when we look at allowing Huawei to invest in our national infrastructure, when we allow large Chinese firms to lease our ports and other assets critical to Australia's national security. And finally, even just allowing Chinese SOEs to operate in Australia, because it is now 100% clear that their priority aim is not always market driven operations but advancing the strategic interests of the CCP.