god, this is absolute tosh. (via @BeijingPalmer ). One reason most China watchers don't believe in the virus lab nonsense is because it's completely superfluous. C-19 is a bang typical example of dysfunctional CPC governance> thehill.com/opinion/intern…
>which this time happened to have global consequences. A few years back someone dumped thousands of dead pigs in the Huangpu river and no-one knew anything about it till they started floating through suburban Shanghai. Thousands of dead pigs, just rolling down the river>
>anyway, there was official silence, followed by obfuscation & censorship and finally an admission that yes, there was a bit of a pig disease problem upriver. A massive pig holocaust followed, but no-one really got to the bottom of the affair>
>incidentally, this is why I believe the regime are on top of the C-19 problem now. It's been fuck-it-up-and-fix-it non stop since 1949.
>Anyway, unlike COVID 19, that one stayed in Vegas. If i wanted to promote a line that was both accurate and subversive of state power in China, what I'd be doing would be emphasising the *weakness* of Chinese governance in the face of urgent problems>
> its *inadequacy*, its *depraved indifference* to public welfare. It's byzantine structures of perverse incentives. Xi isn't some kind of totalitarian superman; he's the chief bozo in the clown show. That's what would maybe strike a chord with the Chinese public
anyway, that's yer lot. Thanks to @samgeall for reminding me of the Huangpu pig incident.
