YouTuber laowhy86, formerly a long-time resident of China, has warned that any notions that the Chinese Communist regime will be brought down by the COVID-19 pandemic are fanciful at best.
While the Chinese Virus is China’s Chernobyl in many important respects, it will almost certainly not be fatally weakening to the Chinese regime in the same way as the nuclear disaster was to the Soviets. In fact, Xi’s thuggish rule will most likely emerge stronger than ever, thanks to its relentless propaganda – propaganda eagerly parroted by useful idiots in the West.
As the rest of the world is struggling to fathom what a post-coronavirus existence may look like, China claims it is on the verge of declaring a momentous victory in the “People’s War on COVID-19”.
As with anything coming out of Beijing, there is good reason to doubt this. Not only is it likely that the true extent of the disaster in China has been ruthlessly suppressed, Beijing is already mapping out the propaganda campaign to respond to a second wave of infections.
Meanwhile, Xi’s useful idiots are shouting “We’ve seen the future – and it works!”
China is selling itself as the resolute leader of humankind’s “shared destiny”, eyes ahead, with the West left dithering in a delusional past.
China’s propaganda outlets are proclaiming its altruism and generosity in spreading its antivirus expertise and its bounty of masks, testing equipment and other health products to smitten countries around the world, although some of it has been targeted especially at ethnic Chinese populations in foreign lands.
The message of Chinese success is being amplified by international elite supporters such as Jim O’Neill, the celebrity former Goldman Sachs economist, who praises the “tough, aggressive” response of China, without referring to instances in places such as Wuhan, where officials welded some of those suffering the virus into their own homes.
Of course, there’s no globalist propaganda show without the UN’s Punch.
This take echoes that of Christiana Figueres, who for six years was head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and recently visited Australia to receive the 2020 Sydney Peace Prize’s gold medal for human rights. She previously has praised China’s leaders for “doing it right” because the party’s political system “avoids some of the legislative hurdles seen in countries including the US”.
These “legislative hurdles”, of course, are only some of the most hard-won liberties of the post-Enlightenment West.
It’s all of them — as well as judicial, civil, popular, electoral, or any other infernal type of hurdle. This muscular, brook-no-wimpish-rights-or-accountability-nonsense ethos is now being compared with the claimed weakness of Europe and the US.
But it’s one of Beijing’s dreaded “Three Ts” which give the lie to communist propagandising.
Democratic Taiwan has become a model of success using a very different path — in health control as well as governance. Taiwan moved swiftly and decisively before the end of last year, with the important background of lessons learned from the disaster of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak. In place was easily accessed and well-resourced universal healthcare, cutting-edge tech and big data, as well as the “X factor” — widespread trust in government, recently re-elected in a landslide, and equally crucially, mutual trust between citizens[…]
Taiwan, with a similar-sized population to Australia[…] has achieved the exemplary result of only 195 confirmed cases and only two deaths, while remaining cut off from formal advice from the World Health Organisation, which insists Taiwan is a mere province of the PRC.
Taiwan health officials say they warned the WHO about the virus in late December, but its concerns were not passed on.
Taiwan is the democratic antidote to globalist authoritarianism.
Long may they stay free of the murderous clutches of Beijing.
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