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On April 17, 2020 the director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety, Sandy Karsten, revealed that 3.9 million KN95 masks manufactured in China were defective. The State of Missouri had signed a $16.5 million contract with an unidentified vendor for the masks and paid half in advance. The vendor is refusing to return the $8.25 million. Missouri Governor Mike Parson said: "We got cheated here in this state and we are going to go out there and try to get our money back and hold people accountable." In neighboring Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker said that the state had spent $17 million on KN95 masks that may be unusable: "You know things come in shipments of a million — you can't go through one mask at a time and so you try to take samples from the shipments that come in, make sure you got what you are paying for." In Washington State, 12,000 coronavirus testing kits produced in China were recalled after some of them were found to be contaminated with the coronavirus.<ref>https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15917/china-defective-medical-supplies</ref>
On April 17, 2020 the director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety, Sandy Karsten, revealed that 3.9 million KN95 masks manufactured in China were defective. The State of Missouri had signed a $16.5 million contract with an unidentified vendor for the masks and paid half in advance. The vendor is refusing to return the $8.25 million. Missouri Governor Mike Parson said: "We got cheated here in this state and we are going to go out there and try to get our money back and hold people accountable." In neighboring Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker said that the state had spent $17 million on KN95 masks that may be unusable: "You know things come in shipments of a million — you can't go through one mask at a time and so you try to take samples from the shipments that come in, make sure you got what you are paying for." In Washington State, 12,000 coronavirus testing kits produced in China were recalled after some of them were found to be contaminated with the coronavirus.<ref>https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15917/china-defective-medical-supplies</ref>
===Decoupling===
Decoupling refers to restricting and terminating certain trade relationships with the Chinese Communist Party. Decoupling however, is not limited merely to commerce. It will affect student exchange programs as students from China are hand selected by the Chinese Communist Party and expected to serve the party upon graduation without becoming infected with ideas such as [[democracy]], [[justice]], and [[religion]] while in the United States. American students studying in China likewise are targeted for compromise, blackmail, and ideological subversion.
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board oversees the Thrift Savings Plan, a retirement fund for federal employees and members of the uniformed military services, with about $600 billion in assets. Money is withheld from federal employees and the military's paychecks to contribute to the fund. Approximately 11% is invested in Chinese companies, some of which produce weapons designed to kill members of the U.S. military.<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/trump-orders-federal-retirement-money-invested-in-chinese-equities-to-be-pulled</ref> The government of China even prior to the CCP virus outbreak was in violation of U.S. sanctions law and engaged in humanitarian and human rights abuse.
Some companies the Thrift Fund invested in are:<ref>https://presentdangerchina.org/2020/04/open-letter-to-president-trump-dont-fund-our-enemies/</ref>
*AviChina Industry & Technology Ltd.: AVIC and its subsidiaries develop and produce a range of [[aircraft]], unmanned aircraft systems and airborne weapons for the [[People's Liberation Army]]. AVIC and its subsidiaries have been repeatedly sanctioned by the U.S. for [[missile]] proliferation activities in [[Iran]].
*China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation: Naval equipment produced by CSIC includes: guided missile destroyers, frigates, conventional submarines, nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, and, most notably, aircraft carriers.
*Hikvision Digital Technology: Hikvision manufactures video cameras and other security technology integral to the CCP’s [[surveillance]] state apparatus, its “social credit” system and the network of large-scale [[concentration camp]]s used to incarcerate certain [[religious]] minorities. Hikvision has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for [[human rights]] and other activities “contrary to the [[national security]] or [[foreign policy]] interests of the United States.”
*Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation (ZTE): [[ZTE]] is a [[telecommunications]] company that has engaged in economic and trade activities in sanctioned states in violation of U.S. laws and regulations.
*China Communications Construction Company: As of 2015, CCCC owned over half of China’s dredging industry capacity. Several CCCC subsidiaries have been observed conducting dredging (and other) activity in support of Beijing’s illegal island-building activity in the [[South China Sea]].
*China Unicom: China Unicom is providing telecommunications systems to the contested Paracel Islands and [[Spratly Islands]] in the South China Sea to service China’s [[civilian]] and [[military]] personnel and also reportedly to support signals intelligence activities.
*China Mobile Ltd.: China Mobile provides telecommunications services to illegal fortified Chinese-constructed islands in the Paracel and Spratly Island chains. In May 2019, the U.S. [[FCC]] denied China Mobile’s application to provide international telecommunications services between the U.S. and foreign destinations, saying it “raises substantial national security and [[law enforcement]] risks.”
*China Telecom Corporation: In April 2020, the U.S. government pulled a license from this Chinese telecommunications company’s American subsidiary on the grounds that it entailed unacceptable risks of Chinese [[espionage]] and disruption of U.S. networks.
==Canada==
==Canada==