Germany sends China £130billion bill for 'coronavirus damages'

drunkmonkey · 19-04-2020 11:17PM #1

Germany sends China £130billion bill for 'coronavirus damages' – sparks fury in Beijing
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.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1271028/Angela-Merkel-Germany-China-coronavirus-blame-Wuhan-Xi-Jinping-Trump-latest

Danzy · 19-04-2020 11:18PM

Germany discovers its sack.

Podge201 · 19-04-2020 11:20PM

Rightly so. They made the virus.

Kermit.de.frog · 19-04-2020 11:22PM

Ok that's the take of The Daily Express, what does The Dandy think?

punisher5112 · 19-04-2020 11:22PM

The biggest issues really are that nobody had the balls to shut borders and the even worse part is that many still actually believe the news coming from China especially the Irish media and government.....

They actually covered it up for so long and people that spoke out died or disappeared.....

China is making a killing from it all now.

Rodney Bathgate · 19-04-2020 11:23PM

Has anyone actually read the linked article?

The ‘invoice’ was compiled and sent by a German newspaper.

This story has nothing to do with the German government.

tdf7187 · 19-04-2020 11:23PM

Glad to hear it. Meanwhile the approach of 'our' unelected teeshock is completely unsurprising - Irelands 'leaders' for the most part hate their own country. Consider this is the same person who licks up to Islamicists at every given opportunity in spite of being a member of a persecuted minority. Is it a form of masochism that he suffers from or is he just plain stupid?

Xertz · 19-04-2020 11:25PM

"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)."

"Germany" hasn't sent anything and the Express tends to be an absolutely useless source of information, as this demonstrates.

Also it hasn't sparked fury in Beijing. It was ignored as it was printed by a tabloid.

The Express is always having things 'spark fury' and so on.

19-04-2020 11:27PM

So a German newspaper sends a bill to China

Germany has sparked outrage in China after a major newspaper put together a £130bn invoice that Beijing "owes" Berlin

Xertz · 19-04-2020 11:28PM

Also it's a rather dumb thing for even a tabloid in Germany to do, given that a lot of countries could potentially send Germany enormous bill for WWII.

Gone Drinking · 19-04-2020 11:28PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Germany sends China £130billion bill for 'coronavirus damages' – sparks fury in Beijing
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.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1271028/Angela-Merkel-Germany-China-coronavirus-blame-Wuhan-Xi-Jinping-Trump-latest

I bet this fake news does the round on Facebook from all the Leo haters.

I'm not partial to him but the tripe I'm seeing shared these days is laughable

19-04-2020 11:29PM

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Has anyone actually read the linked article?

The ‘invoice’ was compiled and sent by a German newspaper.

This story has nothing to do with the German government.

Yep some people just look at the clickbait and jump in, nothing new there from some posters.

Darc19 · 19-04-2020 11:32PM

Christ, I thought people believing sh1te in the daily mail was bad, but to find some people believe the daily express is a threat to society.

Pekarirska · 19-04-2020 11:34PM

Ireland sends Spain €130billion trillion zillion bill for 'Spanish flu damages' – sparks fury in Madrid
Ireland has rattled Spain after joining Trump, Ivanka and Jared in a rare attack, after Dublin called out Madrid's responsibility for the global pandemic and even issued a €130bn trillion zillion invoice.

The One Doctor · 19-04-2020 11:34PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Germany sends China £130billion bill for 'coronavirus damages' – sparks fury in Beijing

Germany did nothing of the sort. A newspaper calculated the losses and proposed sending it.

Thats all.

threeball · 19-04-2020 11:34PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Germany sends China £130billion bill for 'coronavirus damages' – sparks fury in Beijing
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.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1271028/Angela-Merkel-Germany-China-coronavirus-blame-Wuhan-Xi-Jinping-Trump-latest

Living up to your username with this one. Better off hitting the hay.

threeball · 19-04-2020 11:36PM

Pekarirska wrote: »

Ireland sends Spain €130billion trillion zillion bill for 'Spanish flu damages' – sparks fury in Madrid
Ireland has rattled Spain after joining Trump, Ivanka and Jared in a rare attack, after Dublin called out Madrid's responsibility for the global pandemic and even issued a €130bn trillion zillion invoice.

Not even ireland, it would be like the star sending a bill to whomever. Total clickbait muck.

Das Reich · 19-04-2020 11:37PM

Pekarirska wrote: »

Ireland sends Spain €130billion trillion zillion bill for 'Spanish flu damages' – sparks fury in Madrid
Ireland has rattled Spain after joining Trump, Ivanka and Jared in a rare attack, after Dublin called out Madrid's responsibility for the global pandemic and even issued a €130bn trillion zillion invoice.

Spanish flu arrived in Spain from the same place all other diseases arrived.

Xertz · 19-04-2020 11:38PM

How anyone working for the Express can be called a journalist is beyond me.

An odd, very nationalistic comic-book would be more accurate.

drunkmonkey · 19-04-2020 11:40PM

Gone Drinking wrote: »

I bet this fake news does the round on Facebook from all the Leo haters.

I'm not partial to him but the tripe I'm seeing shared these days is laughable

I'm sorry but Leo is a PR loving whore. Thanking China was one of his crowning moments, Covney isn't too far behind him upping our WHO contribution when Trump decided to suspend it. China lied, the WHO backed them up. We awarded both of them, unfeckin believable carry on.

s1ippy · 19-04-2020 11:40PM

Gone Drinking wrote: »

I bet this fake news does the round on Facebook from all the Leo haters.

I'm not partial to him but the tripe I'm seeing shared these days is laughable

Thought you might appreciate this

Harsh but quite hilarious and troubling. And a bit satirical but also representative of the situation.

19-04-2020 11:45PM

Das Reich wrote: »

Spanish flu arrived in Spain from the same place all other diseases arrived.

America ? Because that's where Spanish flu arrived from going by some of the research

Xertz · 19-04-2020 11:46PM

The Express and similar outlets do this all the time though. Take a couple of actual facts uttered by someone somewhere, then completely misrepresent them to be from someone else, particularly the EU.

They put the gutter in gutter press.

markodaly · 19-04-2020 11:48PM

The amount of fake news being peddled is funny, especially by those that don't like Leo.

Maybe I can send China an invoice for $1 Trillion and we can have a big headline, 'Ireland sends $1 Trillion bill to China'.....

Stark · 19-04-2020 11:48PM

s1ippy wrote: »

Thought you might appreciate this

Harsh but quite hilarious and troubling. And a bit satirical but also representative of the situation.

He looks great there against the flames backdrop. Should make that his profile pic.

NIMAN · 19-04-2020 11:48PM

The One Doctor wrote: »

Germany did nothing of the sort. A newspaper calculated the losses and proposed sending it.

Thats all.

IT'll be all over Facebook and WhatsApp later as 'FACT'.

Xertz · 19-04-2020 11:50PM

What I don't understand is why, in an era when journalism is being totally destroyed by this stuff, the likes of the NUJ doesn't step in on quality of journalism.

These kinds of articles are simply not journalism by any definition of the term.

Skylinehead · 19-04-2020 11:51PM

Fake and news.

Germany sends China £130billion bill for 'coronavirus damages'

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