Marsha Blackburn: China's threat to plunge US into 'mighty sea of coronavirus' means America must act

Fox News ^ | March 19 2020 | Louis Casiano

[knighthawk]

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Thursday blasted China's monopoly on key pharmaceutical ingredients as the United States continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.

In a video posted to her Twitter account, Blackburn called China's threats to plunge the U.S. into a "mighty sea of coronavirus" by withholding access to critical medication a national security and public health issue.

"Relying on foreign countries like China for instance, for our pharmaceutical supply chain can lead us to critical shortages," she said.

[knighthawk]

End globalism now! This problem was created by the Dems and Bush league Rino's and it will get worse if Biden gets into the White House!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

It won't get worse if Biden wins because if he does there will be total collapse. Even under Trump there is no more money to spend and we're in danger of becoming the Weimar Republic. A Democratic win would guarantee it.

[right way right]

“mighty sea of coronavirus”

Whose words are those?

[DallasBiff]

The chicomms don’t care about their own people and unleashed this virus on them to get back at Trump and America.

[Jess Kitting]

China's monopoly on key pharmaceutical ingredients

What are those ingredients?

We're smart enough. Can't we find out what they are and produce the pharmaceuticals here?

We don't rely on Saudi oil, Japanese cars, Mexican food. Why can't we produce our own pharmaceuticals?

By the way--some entrepreneurial businessman in China is going to sell them to us anyway via back channels.

It's only a matter of time. Give them enough money, and they will "leak" the secret ingredients to us.

[preacher]

L8r

[Ymani Cricket]

I remember as if it were yesterday watching Patrick J. Buchanan give this same warning at my state GOP convention. I was naive then to some degree, but not as much as most, but it was still a shock when he was Booed and Hissed at by the Dole delegates. I remember thinking "what the hell is wrong with these people?" (Then I realized they want cheap Chinese slave labor)

And they did the same BS to Trump. Except Trump fought back harder and punched his way through. They accuse you of being racist because you don't want to be dependent on another country for critical needs. And now we reach the point where we don't even produce our critical needs - in this case - critical care needs.

Buchanan was right. Trump was right. And THAT is the big story the major fake media WON'T cover. The blue blood republican's sold us out a LONG time ago. And most of those creeps are still in the Senate.

[chuckee]

I wish the EU luck with insisting on the Huewei 5g network after China exported their virus to Europe. Next time they can send it through the 5g network. China leads the world in emitting CO2, they cheat on their deals, never honor them, built their industries stealing western technologies that they now compete with the West,spies on the world conceals viruses and facilitates global pandemics,maintains a trade surplus with the entire west except Germany, has every intention of eventually locking the west out of their domestic markets in favor of Chinese companies, fix their currency to disadvantage the West, suppress their people, built a military that threatens everyone in the region, etc.There is no advantage to dealing with this toxic parasitic economy. It is time for the West to cut them off completely and return them to an agrarian society.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

At least the “true” Chinese Communism is now out in the open for all to see, hear, and read, except the leftist US mainstream media who choses Not to Hear, Not to See, and Not to Read the truth.

[aces]

makes it seem like they don’t want war while starting one..
unleash the dogs of war, no one will live, mankind is stupid

[dp0622]

Can we just plunge parts of China into the stone age?

I know, wishful thinking. They got nukes too.

[PA Engineer]

Worse. They fail to understand a Chinese bioweapon has been unleashed on the world.

The CCP and PLA have their own Lebensraum. They see the US as their land to grow. This has been published in the past by their war planners. They also lay claim to their old Silk Road.

I believe it was an accidental release. They were saving it for later. Why aren't we screaming murder at their forays into biological weapons?

[Psalm 73]

Once we do pull out of this - think of all the jobs that will open up as manufacturers are forced (coerced) into bringing operations back into the US.

[TheConservativeTejano]

The chicomms don’t care about their own people and unleashed this virus on them to get back at Trump and America.

Partner, you said a mouthful in that statement.

We in the U.S.A. have let the Chicoms into our Purchasing Departments and the CEO's of these companies do not even have the foggiest idea of why we keep having breakdowns in the Refinery plants or even Chemical plants.

We keep saying that the Chicoms want to be No. 1 guy in the neighborhood and I hope we have learned our lesson.

These Preferred Supplier Partnerships do not work with a Communist government.

Partner, I have heard there are 217 deaths due to this virus but we do not have the statistics on how many are people at 80 plus years are dying from complications due to upper respiratory problems.

BTW, the 217 deaths so far this year amounts to .000065% of the 330,000,000 million Americans in the U.S. This is way too small a percentage of Americans getting this Wuhan Virus.

You are so correct in saying the MSM in the U.S., the DemonRat party and now the Chicoms are in Cahoots to get President Trump out of office.

I say a big Bravo Sierra to that!

[RoosterRedux]

That may be true but, at the present time, we don't know if it is or not.

The WH may know, and that may be why the President keeps insisting on implicating China indirectly, but we the members of the public do not.

Probably best to hold off on such speculation or at least label such comments as conjecture. Otherwise, you are just creating and spreading rumors.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What I want to know is why was this guy from the University of Treason, Harvard, involved in a lab in Wuhan? .............https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00291-2

[JLAGRAYFOX]

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[eartick]

There is no secret ingredient.

The problem is that pharma moved production of meds to China to save money in production costs. Same reason our military was having some of the electronics manufactured by the zipperheads, cost.

Now these "cost savings" have reared up to bite us in the ass.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

We should have the Chicoms pay for this by taking the money out of the trillions we owe them. I don’t know if that’s feasible or legal, but how else will we get them to own up?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Theyre too busy childishly screaming racism for calling this the Chinese virus

They are incredibly stupid people