failures made 2020 a rough year for China’s relations with the world. First, Chinese officials—following the logic of their unaccountable, secretive one-party system—failed to report an unknown virus in the central city of Wuhan for several critical weeks, giving covid-19 time to take hold. More failures followed.
Amid that global misery, China’s leaders call their country’s recovery proof that Communist Party rule offers a uniquely effective blend of organisational prowess, respect for science, and traditional Chinese morality. They are about to discover how provocative that boasting will sound to many in the rest of the world. Foreign anger will in turn prompt resentment within China.
Diplomats in Beijing compare covid-19 to the global financial crisis of 2008, another event that convinced many Chinese leaders that the West is in long-term decline. Arguably, this pandemic is a more perilous moment. For one thing, in 2008 the credit crunch was a crisis discussed between Chinese and Western elites. Few American or European voters either knew or cared that global growth was being sustained by massive Chinese investments in domestic infrastructure.
Foreign scepticism about China’s record is not entirely fair. Some in the West speculate that China is hiding mass infections. That is improbable: despite strict censorship, news of another Wuhan-like catastrophe would leak. Instead, after early cover-ups, China’s response has been simple but effective. Since late March it has closed its borders to most foreigners, built high-tech systems to monitor domestic travel and attacked even small flare-ups with lockdowns and mass testing.
美国赶紧把自己的疫情控制住吧，省得祸害别人
It was after the Hong-Kong national security law that I started viewing China with greater scrutiny.
Why isn't the The Economist doing any stories on the Biden hard drive
They only handled the virus well cos they don’t have the concept of civil liberties 😂😂😂if they don’t want you leaving your yard they’ll weld you in or take you away in a van and you won’t be coming back
Wait until people discover how AMERICA handled it. China is open and America is well...
Navalny helped find the real poisoners of the Skripals.
Who believes amk?
It’s the third Coronavirus they’ve “given” to the world in 20 years, all bc they refuse to regulate their wet markets. Eventually we’ll have to address that or we can insist on being PC and going thru this song and dance every 8-12 years or so.
Sadly they did fat better than my own country
It is hard to overstate how bad the West’s handling of the virus. PERIOD.
U should hear the sniggering from Africa.
China started the whole mess which they allowed to release to the whole world. They did not close their border and allowed Chinese to spread the virus.
I’m buying the narrative that this things has been going in circles for a while before nations decided to trump it.
Beyond belief that a backward country that treats animals cruelly & eats bush meat & was aware that their selfish actions on the onset of the pandemic by travelling away from It's cause & spread it throughout the World causing Deaths Financial ruin! Should feel nothing but SHAME!
Proud boys getting sour, hilarious 😆
At least China provide free tests and treatments for its own people ...when US could possibly do so? The two parties only cares about their political games, neither cares about their people’s lives.
That's rich coming from the nation that lied about this virus's very EXISTENCE...
Why on earth would so many commenting in this tweet think it’s any sort of praise of the Chinese people? The apparent low literacy among The Economist readers would explain why the public in the West is so easily manipulated by their media and politicians.
Once again violating the humanitarian ceasefire, the enemy fired artillery shells in the northern direction from 00:04 to 02:45, and fired rockets in the southern direction from 02:20 to 02:45.
Yeah well, if he Chinese didn't practice revolting unsanitary meat markets perhaps they wouldn't have inflicted Covid 19 upon the West!
If west were to endorse the sealing of apartments, shooting the covid and mass cremation..... Then what u say is right..
Yes the USA, UK, Europe & South America have all failed in contagion control. $$$$ before control has proven that a socialist government cares more about its people. How vindicated the CCP must seem to 1.4 billion Chinese. Has capitalism failed humanity again?
Beijing warns the US of the possibility of arresting Americans in China in response to the persecution of Chinese researchers
Always licking CCP ass
China's enemy is Jeff Thomas, themselves4not having a symbol which auto-flushes the grafted baby-bottom innocence computations he pathologically washes off sly2pop boners into his 'bank accounts' clandestinely so he can meet the international torturer of his dreams&US-elect et al
Because communist China has socialist government that controls media like Twitter!and Facebook recently did. Anyone think it’s strange China has no cure for coronavirus but claims no cases
And now we will use this success to justify several more decades of propaganda, misinformation, jailing journalists & dissenters, and cementing one party rule.
The govts could do the exact same thing and Asians (not just Chinese) would still come out on top because they just do what they're told.
Obviously whites are genetically incapable of self reflection😂😂😂😂
Doctors speak out: covidscam covidlies PCRGATE
China is a majoritarian nation. The majority of Chinese people are stupid(panic), brutal,and intolerant of those who are different. The pandemic is a honeymoon of the party and Chinese people.They made the success on the cost of a minority of population.
Still eat s*** where’s the wisdom in that .. they need to shut up and get real
It’s ccp virus(NOT CHINESE or CHINA)which killed those innocent all around world...it’s ccp’s dirty and inhumanity plan which is still killing more innocent people all around world...evil ccp must be punished for a better life of all chinese as well as the rest of world people...
Two doses of the Novel Coronavirus vaccine will cost less than $60 per person.
When one day you realize it’s the CCP that manmade the virus and started the pandemic, the whole narrative will be reversed.
Since the full article isn’t public, not interested in your taunting headline.
If you read the article, it’s a critique on Chinese’ perception of the West and what might result from each nations’ pandemic response foing forward..not an Economist shill piece.
It is hard to overstate how bad the CCP’s handling of the Uyghurs looks to ordinary Westerners. But do they feel vindicated? Nope.
Because the west sucks.
The Economist going balls deep for the CCP
Yes, that's really something to brag about after the virus was released from a lab in their country after which due to alleged 'Chinese secrecy and pride' they finally half assed told us what was going on. Kiss my ass CCP. That's a really low blow way to gloat.
japan never closed
a problem that they caused by eating bats..
I will never give up my liberty for a false sense of safety from a communist regime.
The western media just can't handle the reality.
Remember: BulliesRuleHongKong ButchersRuleBeijing
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The 5 eye not the world.
What I never get, ‘China failed to report virus for 6 weeks’.... ok and what if they did. The USA had its first case in late January and did nothing for last year 10 months........ just doesn’t make any sense
That's to boost your confidence after playing politics with the lives of americans undermining a pandemic. Countries that understood what was afoot were better off, but you labeled it, and now you don't like china boasting about how they fared...
One deadly wisdom that
Fun fact: in this magazine “world”=five eyes
They will impress the world when they stop having outbreaks.....
It sounds 'boasting' only to the envious green 5Eyes.
Today after missile attacks of Armenian forces on GanjaCity of Azerbaijan 20 civilians dead, including children and babies!
Well... we shouldn’t be calling the kettle black...
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