PIRATES OF THE XXI CENTURY

2020-04-05

Germany criticizes the United States for what one top lawmaker in Berlin called “an act of modern piracy” after US authorities “confiscated” a Chinese-manufactured shipment of 200,000 protective masks after they arrived at a port in Thailand while en route to Germany.

In an amazing irony, the masks had actually been purchased by the German government from an American company — though manufactured in China — and yet the US still intercepted them at a moment Trump has warned US companies with factories in China they’ll “have a big price to pay” if they don’t increase supply to the US.


By the end of the week in total, three US allies accused Washington of theft over intercepts and seizures of supplies being shipped out of China, namely Canada, France, and Germany.

 

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