WASHINGTON, April 3 — US politicians have voiced fury over Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus crisis but they face a harsh truth — the United States desperately needs China’s supplies. China before the crisis produced nearly half of the face masks imported into the United States —...
N95 masks are prepared to be shipped at the Afya Warehouse, a non-profit medical supply recovery organisation, during the outbreak of coronavirus disease in New York March 25, 2020. — Reuters pic
“China is a massive source of supply for these products at a time of incredible need, both in the United States and globally,” said Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Dan Harris, a Seattle lawyer who represents companies in emerging markets, wrote on his blog that he recently heard from three companies that were each scammed out of more than US$1 million after placing N95 mask orders from China — with one firm receiving “dusty, moldy Halloween masks.”Bown found no evidence in the available early data that China has cut off supplies or diverted them to politically favoured partners such as hard-hit Italy.
President Donald Trump has veered from lashing out at Beijing to praising cooperation with President Xi Jinping.
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