This is just wrong and a naive read of the Chinese government. The PRC will not respond to anything but force and sustained embarrassment.
Until scientists stop acting like weenies and say 'the virus probably came from the Wuhan Lab and China is covering it up' we get nothing.
Until scientists stop acting like weenies and say 'the virus probably came from the Wuhan Lab and China is covering it up' we get nothing.
The utterly reckless and naive approach to the Chinese government continues to astonish. Their leaders are self-described Leninists who do not believe in scientific truth. To them truth is about raw power, and nothing more.
And by 'force' I don't mean war, I mean using economic and political leverage to protect ourselves from PRC coercion.
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1408413765788475396
"But a better path forward is one of true global cooperation based on mutual benefit and reciprocity. Despite the current dissembling, we should assume that the Chinese government also doesn’t want to go through this again "
Naive, naive, naive.
Naive, naive, naive.
The problem with the PRC is also domestic. The left and our financial/big tech class refuses to see we're in a world with a hostile ideological power, the right refuses to make liberal democracy work here. But this Wuhan lab crisis is forcing the discussion.
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