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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by system16 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:53AM (#22823731)
> they ordered the wrong thing. China did not intentionally send bad masks, nor was it a manufacturing quality problem.

That doesn't align with what's being reported (by other countries as well):

> "Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands."

> "Dutch officials said that the masks did not fit and that their filters did not work as intended, even though they had a quality certificate,"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395

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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by FooBarWidget on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:03PM (#22825404)
My sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22825391
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Re:Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China by FooBarWidget on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:55AM (#22823761)
That's what they initially said, before the research happened. That caused China to be upset. After the research it turns out to be an order problem on the Dutch side after all.
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