Beijing Angry After German Newspaper Demands Regime to Pay $160 Billion for Causing Pandemic

Beijing Angry After German Newspaper Demands Regime to Pay $160 Billion for Causing Pandemic
Medical workers are seen as they take swab samples from people to be tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on April 16, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
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Europe’s most-read newspaper has joined calls for compensation from Beijing over its coverup of the CCP virus outbreak causing the pandemic that has devastated economies around the world.

Bild, Germany’s largest paper, in an article titled “What China owes us” published last week, said the regime ought to pay damages totaling nearly 150 billion euros ($163 billion) for loss to the country caused by the pandemic.

Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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