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Germany sends China £130billion bill for 'coronavirus damages' – sparks fury in Beijing
2020-04-20
[Express] GERMANY has rattled China after joining the UK, France and the US in a rare attack, after Berlin called out Beijing's responsibility for the global pandemic and even issued a £130bn invoice.
The Express presents the situation a bit more strongly than the situation merits. It’s only a stunt by a German tabloid, designed to embarrass both Frau Merkel — who amply deserves it for all sorts of reasons — and Chinese Premier Winnie the Pooh.
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?”

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".
Posted by:3dc

#6  Sweet! By the way I just received $50 check in mail from American Family insurance.

"We know this pandemic has caused financial hardship".

Did not see that coming. Rather nice of them.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-04-20 12:45  

#5  Wait until Trump send them our bill...
Posted by: Raj   2020-04-20 09:51  

#4  Let's fly a Taiwanese flag opposite the embassy and see who's concerned about xenophobia and nationalism then.
Posted by: Matt   2020-04-20 09:14  

#3  They're very easily outraged. Let's put a statue of Lord Elgin opposite Chinese embassy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-20 04:46  

#2  Mercutio, this is the story you referred to last evening.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-04-20 01:30  

#1  Not xenophobia but sinophobia. Completely warranted. Suck on it, bastids.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-20 00:34  

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