Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "The Wall Street Journal"
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@thomaszhang3101 " when China ordered isolation for foreign tourists, it offered free hotel, services and meals,".
That is not true. Visitors had to pay for quarantine rooms. In Shanghai it was RMB 300-500 per night. And there were other costs, of course, incl. special testing clinics. Overall, on average it cost around RMB 12,000 to enter China, not including flight or visa. It was troublesome for everybody, but we got through it. And now, it's almost over. A few more months from now it may be as simple to enter China as it was in 2019.
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The Kiel Institute's account of spending/support for Ukraine only starts from February 2022, not from 2014. So they're not wrong, they just don't start from back in 2014. But what does the US government itself say about its support for Ukraine? Quote from the US State Department website, March 4, 2025, entitled 'U.S. Security Cooperation with Ukraine':
"To date, we have provided $66.5 billion in military assistance since Russia launched its premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and approximately $69.2 billion in military assistance since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. We have now used the emergency Presidential Drawdown Authority on 55 occasions since August 2021 to provide Ukraine military assistance totaling approximately $31.7 billion from DoD stockpiles."
So, in fact, the EU is NOT way behind, but on par with the US on assistance to Ukraine.
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