Could China be on the hook for £3.2tn liability?

[toryandproud]

According to the Henry Jackson Society (right wing think tank) China should be on the hook for £3.2tn of reparations for deliberate dereliction of the international health regulations: henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/coronaviruscompensation/

FYI £3.2tn as a number is £3,200,000,000,000, with the UK liability calculated as just north of £350bn.

Thoughts?

How do you calculate the negligence of other countries, though?

If we'd closed down the borders, contact traced everyone who returned from Italy, quarantined etc... there would have been a cost yes but probably not half as much as it will be now.

We seemed to have a strategy of letting it run rife through the population. I don't see how China can be liable for that?

Same with US.

Perhaps Italy might have more of an argument but everyone else had plenty notice.

We could have stopped international travel and quarantined goods for the time it took to find a vaccine. We chose this way instead 🤷🏻‍♀️

Seems fair to me given they knew damn well all this time the cruelty in their animal markets and dodgy food practices cause animal/human transmission of viruses. It has to stop and maybe hitting them damn hard in the wallet could get the message across

Not sure about the figures, but China should definitely be held responsible for causing this havoc.

"cruelty in their animal markets" in the UK we have agreed that killing animals slowly for religious reasons is a GOOD thing so not sure how we could judge anyone else.

It has to stop and maybe hitting them damn hard in the wallet could get the message across

I wonder whether there will be any sanctions or international pressure put on China to stop these barbaric markets once this has all died down - or whether we will just carry on as normal? Sadly money's on the latter.

Sadly my* money's on the latter

Great idea. Who's gonna make them pay?

Good luck with that. China are more likely to go to war than they are to pay any sort of compensation or take that kind of responsibility.

I don’t really have the appetite for WW3, do you?

China is actually in more debt than the USA.

Short answer: whoever loses the war will pay.

Oh I wondered where this idiotic idea was coming from. Nice to have a name to hang it on.

And now I would like everyone who is hyperventilating and thumping their chest suggesting this, to go and have a nice, long cup of tea while contemplating the actions of their own country for the last, oooh, let's only look at 200 years.

Then come back to me and tell me if you think demanding reparations from countries that have been harmed by other countries actions (particularly inadvertent ones, which have also harmed the originating country) still seems like a good idea.

'Cos frankly I don't think Britain can afford the bill. Neither can the US.

other countries' actions

When Britain pays repetitions to the countries it colonised and the US pays repetitions to the countries which people they took as slaves maybe then the world will agree that countries are held financially accountable for their actions.

Until that happens then anybody who spouts shit like this (especially Westerners) is a hypocrite.

Also good luck trying to get the Chinese government to pay anything. They are the worlds biggest suppliers of just about everything.

Try and put any sanctions on them and see how long the rest of the world survives.

I'm sure a lot of developing countries will be pleased to hear that they can now demand reperations.

in the UK we have agreed that killing animals slowly for religious reasons is a GOOD thing so not sure how we could judge anyone else.

There, fixed it for you.

Yes, Ireland is just totting up the bill for 800 years of invasion and repression by Britain.

Sounds fair when you lie to the WHO

On the whole I think dining countries at the end of a major world catastrophe tends not to end well..you know if the end of the First World War taught us anything!

So no not a good idea but I actually do think that wet markets will be banned, China’s continued international reputation will depend on it!