17 hours ago, kevin612 said:

Unless majority of the other countries sue China, otherwise China is safe.

You can’t sue china 

52 minutes ago, 448glb said:

You can’t sue china 

You can sue any person or country you want. Whether you get anything out of it apart from income support for lawyers is a different question.

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

China rejects Australia's questions on its handling of coronavirus

Of course they would Reject/Deny . The Truth Hurts a Lot . One Can't Lose Face.   

'saying it had been open and transparent' Lies Lies and more LIES!!!!!!!

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

You can sue any person or country you want. Whether you get anything out of it apart from income support for lawyers is a different question.

Will be interesting times to see Hua Wei suing the US government and Americans using the Chinese government. All I can say it is rather moot for the any foreigners suing and getting any results in the Chinese courts. 

4 hours ago, ardsong said:

No.

So just a hobby then 

8 hours ago, ardsong said:

this is only an action from au, and other western countries to hide their own incompetence to protect their own people. 

China, had no warning ahead, and had to find out that a sick person dying was the first covid dead, well I guess if you talk about an epidemic, you will have to wait for some 5-10 suspected cases, which with a incubation period of 5-14 days could take a months or so.

From mid Jan the dangers of covid were known and warnings spread by WHO and many experienced virologists.  It was the western leaders, Johnson, Trump that were joking around that time, calling it a hoax, calling it fake news, blaming the democrats a little later, losing time. Then, those Id..ts turned to "simple flue" , and "community immunitie" ideas, those were not the warnings from exp. virologists but those from politicians with their own agenda.

 

Look now, those politicians have lost it all, while they all had a long warning time before cases came to western countries, time wasted to prepare and fight the pandemic:resulting in millions affected and ten-thousands of deaths, hospitals overwhelmed , and country's in lock down.  All because of their jokes, time wasting and their "not listening to specialists" and "caring more for the economy than caring for their own people and country"

 

And now try to blame China, hypocrites .

 

Are you for real China knew about this virus in November 2019 and was making doctors and whistle-blowers disappear because they were telling the world about it. Are you an employee of WHO by any chance

22 hours ago, simon43 said:

 

 

 

Did we really expect them to say anything else?

Did you expect Payne to say anything else.

5 hours ago, geoff65 said:

Australian government won't do <deleted> to china, they are that far up china's <deleted> now, you only have to look at all the land that their allowing to be sold to them.

Do not worry. We sold all of the beachfront land to the Japanese in the 1980's and got it all back at a cheaper price.

Maybe Dr Fauci could be sued......he knows all about this virus!

16 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

Did you expect Payne to say anything else.

She's a piece of kit isn't she.....nothing but kowtowing to Morrison!

8 hours ago, natway09 said:

The exports to China from Australia have been incredible over the last 10 years.

She wants to ensrue the facts are crystal clear before a massive regular income from China 

gets an import duty charge which could damage Australia for 20 years

Nobody buys iron ore, coal and natural gas from Australia at a premium. China buys it because it's the best and cheapest around. For example, getting iron ore from Brazil involves a significant increase in freight cost.

Permit me to doubt the CCP will cut off its nose to spite its face in order to make a political statement. A bit of sabre-rattling, then commercial self-interest will be re-asserted.

10 hours ago, ardsong said:

Nice thought Mick501, but it will start the fall down off the complete world economy

 

If the States confiscate all Chinese property in the USA, what You think China will do with the USA properties in China. Indeed , yes. 

And than , which countries has the majority of dollars in hand? Indeed, yes.

Which country is manufacturer for the world? Indeed, yes

 

The USA will bankrupt itself if it were to confiscate Chinese property in the States and give the overall win away in the hands of China.

 

Yeah, good point.  I hadn't thought about the blow back.

12 hours ago, ardsong said:

this is only an action from au, and other western countries to hide their own incompetence to protect their own people. 

China, had no warning ahead, and had to find out that a sick person dying was the first covid dead, well I guess if you talk about an epidemic, you will have to wait for some 5-10 suspected cases, which with a incubation period of 5-14 days could take a months or so.

From mid Jan the dangers of covid were known and warnings spread by WHO and many experienced virologists.  It was the western leaders, Johnson, Trump that were joking around that time, calling it a hoax, calling it fake news, blaming the democrats a little later, losing time. Then, those Id..ts turned to "simple flue" , and "community immunitie" ideas, those were not the warnings from exp. virologists but those from politicians with their own agenda.

 

Look now, those politicians have lost it all, while they all had a long warning time before cases came to western countries, time wasted to prepare and fight the pandemic:resulting in millions affected and ten-thousands of deaths, hospitals overwhelmed , and country's in lock down.  All because of their jokes, time wasting and their "not listening to specialists" and "caring more for the economy than caring for their own people and country"

 

And now try to blame China, hypocrites .

 

Not correct.

On January 22 , the WHO convened a meeting  of its Emergency Committee wherein they declared that the virus that had already spread out of Wuhan and into  Hubei province , did not constitute anything serious enough to declare a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" ( PHEIC )  Then Xi shut down Wuhan airport on the 23rd , but allowed INTERNATIONAL  flights out of Hubei to continue . Its estimated 200,000 people flew out in the next week , but note they werent allowed to fly to Bejing or Shanghai or Mainland China destinations ! Finally WHO declared a PHEIC on January 30. So at least 2 weeks after the dates you are bandying around...They had sourced information delivered by the Chinese Government in their decision making , and that information had been manipulated.

Here is the reference below showing dates  , and its all from the  WHO , so its not an 'opinion piece'  , under "Conclusions and Advice".

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/23-01-2020-statement-on-the-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)

 

China  definitely has a lot to answer for , and the questions that China never approves of ( or answers ) were  raised by Australia , which as far as I can see , has handled the crisis rapidly and admirably. The world needs to know exactly where and how this came about so as to deal better with Corona / Covid  and future pandemics , and dancing around China , that contributes a fraction of WHO's budget  ( a 20th of the US input ) but wants to control it and politicisize , is not the way to get results.

10 hours ago, Libai said:

ardsong  I am not a hypocrite. It is a matter of recorded fact that in early November 2019 a Doctor Li WenLiang in Wuhan reported to fellow medics that there was a SARS type virus that was capable of transmission to humans and needs to be controlled.  Early December 2019 he was arrested and told to 'stop making false comments'   The Chinese authorities had him arrested and thrown in to jail thus suppressing the early release of vital information.      

 

One reason the virus is recorded as COVID 19  and not COVID 20 

 

 

Dr Li should never be forgotten.

His death from the virus that he contracted while helping Wuhan Disease  sufferers , and being punished for doing so  , was mourned by hundreds of thousands of Chinese as a kind of mass protest against the Party.

There are now Thais convinced by CCP propaganda that the West created the virus , and Xi and his cadres would love that ,  so its important to call it where it came from every time its mentioned. Its Wuhan or China Virus , just as there is German Measles ...