I think one thing all of us here can agree on, regardless of what we think of the way our government and those in other countries responded to the coming of this pandemic, is that governments and people generally around the world must do everything they can in years to come to ensure that a disease pandemic such as this can never, ever happen again.
I know that we have we have no more right to tell the Chinese how to run their country any more than they have any right to tell us how to run the UK. That said, one way I believe that action can be taken against them is in the world of international trade and business. My own view is that the west has made a mistake in allowing so much manufacturing et al to be transferred to that country and allowing China to become as powerful as it has become, even though it is still considered to be a developing country.
If I was a person who was doing business of any description in China on a regular basis, my faith in the authorities in that country to look after people's best interests and their well-being would now have been destroyed for ever.
Originally Posted by: David M Porter