https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-germany-france-accuse-us-125611845.html
A few days ago, I heard Trump say he was asking other countries to help us with Covid-19 supplies. Now our country does this. Not the way to encourage others to help us.
Colin Drury
,The Independent•April 4, 2020
Andreas Geisel, Germany’s interior minister, claimed the US had confiscated 200,000 masks ordered from a US producer as they transited through Thailand.
Politicians in Berlin and Paris both said America had been using unfair means to undermine their own attempts to secure personal protective equipment.
Andreas Geisel, Germany’s interior minister, claimed the US had confiscated 200,000 masks ordered from a US producer as they transited through Thailand.
“We view this as an act of modern piracy,” he said on Friday. “You cannot act in such a way among transatlantic partners. Such wild west methods can’t dominate, even in a time of global crisis.”
A city leader in Paris, meanwhile, said unidentified Americans had paid excessive prices to secure Chinese-made masks that had already been ordered by France.
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She did not say whether the people involved were government officials, company representatives or private individuals.
But the US embassy in Paris said suggestions that the White House may have been involved in were “completely false”.
[The Trump administration has not given people any reason to believe what they say.]
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