WTF is going on here?!? Does that thing want to totally alienate Germany?

[catbyte]

Germany says US ‘hijacked’ 200,000 masks at Bangkok airport

AFP -
April 4, 2020 12:05 AM

BERLIN: The United States diverted a delivery of Chinese-made face masks bound for Germany at a Bangkok airport, a Berlin city official said Friday, accusing Washington of “modern-day piracy” as competition for protective gear against the coronavirus heats up.

In a statement Berlin’s state minister of the interior, Andreas Geisel, said 200,000 highly sought-after FFP2 masks, made by an American firm in China and destined for use by Berlin police, were “confiscated” in Bangkok.

“At the moment we assume this is in connection with the US government’s export ban on masks,” the statement said.

President Donald Trump, after a late start in procuring urgently needed protective gear, has in recent days invoked the Defense Production Act to get US firms to divert their resources to the battle against the pandemic.

According to German newspaper Bild, the hijacked shipment contained masks made in China by US firm 3M, one of the leading brands in the sector, that were then diverted to the United States.

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https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2020/04/04/germany-says-us-confiscated-200000-masks-at-bangkok-airport/

[Bev54]

1. Germany and Canada

The stupid prick is going to get you killed, he thinks he can keep masks away but he needs material from Canada and that may well be stopped.

[Disaffected]

5. And Canada has thousands of nurses

that cross the border each day to work in US border cities (such as Detroit). The Canadian gov't is wasting no time in making the administration aware of that and other relevant trade facts.

[Bev54]

6. Yes that too

Trump thinks that he has all the power, well he may have a lot but we have some too. It is such a shame that he is destroying the relationship.

[Iliyah]

2. WTF . . .

[hardluck]

3. Guess the Germans Now Know How the Italians Felt

When Germany initially banned the export of PPE, including to Italy.

[stillcool]

4. I saw another article about this

But it's more than Germany....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/mask-wars-coronavirus-outbidding-dema

[bobbieinok]

8. 'Page does not exist'

[stillcool]

9. Oops... sorry

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/mask-wars-coronavirus-outbidding-demand

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. It doesn't give a fuck! It probably thinks "What can they do to me?". And unfortunately

it's probably not wrong.