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Jack Ma to donate 500k test kits and 1M masks to the U.S.
- svaha1728 7y agoWith one simple gesture, he simultaneously helps a lot of people and outperforms the entire United States government.
- jVinc 7y agoAnd slaps a glove across Trumps face, which I suspect is the root cause for this gesture.
- aeternum 7y agoYou've got to give Ma some credit though, this is a classy way to do it. USA/Trump receives foreign aid.
- stevespang 7y agoAbsolutely, and the US bureaucrats deserve it too.
- adrianmonk 7y agoAnd/or maybe he just wants to help people. He donated to other countries too. And/or the economy of China depends on the US being healthy (physically and financially) so Americans can keep buying the manufactured goods which China exports. As a customer, the US is too big to fail.
- forkexec 7y agoIf you look at it objectively, America is a third-world country that no one wants to say it's so: - around 2 million homeless - extreme wealth inequality - lower than average hospital beds per citizens - no universal healthcare (Cuba's system is cheaper and better, unless you're rich) - no meaningful mental healthcare system - heavily indebted workers who aren't making livable wages or gaining full employment - home ownership and savings unattainable for most - unaccountable police - highest incarceration rate per capita in the world except Seychelles - racially-biased criminal justice system - imprisoning journalists - autocratic, corrupt, populist leader - deeply-corrupt political establishment