1/ @VGokhale59, India's foreign secretary till recently & a China hand, joins the debate about #COVID19 & systems of government/governance -- and how! He does not mince words in this op-ed stratnewsglobal.com/indias-respons…
2/ Fmr Indian FS Gokhale: "COVID-19 is not merely a medical war; it is a conflict of ideas...How India tackles this public health crisis will not just determine the future of COVID-19, it will reshape our world."
3/ Fmr Indian FS Gokhale: "As [China] created wealth, it also spun myths about the superiority of its governance model, mainly to convince its own population why the communist model is better than other political systems..." [says western govts, biz, media helped propagated this]
4/ Fmr Indian FonSec Gokhale: "COVID-19 has dispelled the myths around the Beijing consensus. Try as the Chinese authorities might to showcase their system as having efficiently tackled a national emergency, even the remotest nation on earth has learned about their failure."
5/ Fmr GoI FS: When China mocks India's democracy, it is from "fear that if democratic India can deliver, the rule of the [CCP] can be challenged. India, not western democracies, is the real existential ideological threat. How we handle this crisis will determine our place..."
6/ Gokhale: "We hv a long and painful battle ahead..If we prevail in this fight, we will show to the rest of the world, that imperfect as it may be, democracy is the better method of delivering results in the face of an international crisis. & that it works with all its faults.."
7/ the China bits of the op-ed by former Indian foreign secretary @VGokhale59 will unsurprisingly get more attention, but it as much – if not even more – about India i.e. what India & Indians need to do to now and in #covid19 aftermath stratnewsglobal.com/indias-respons… 
