As I wrote elsewhere, China's 4Q2019 GDP growth rate was the lowest in 29 years. If ChIna Inc. doesn't look like a good place, then foreign direct investment etc. will be curtailed and then the capital outflows will be YUGE. THAT is a bigger threat to China than the common cold.
Now, maybe there IS something going on, a strong strain of influenza perhaps. So, taking their cue from the Obama Admin to not let a good crisis go through waste, the govt cranks up their dictatorial powers and executes quarantine etc on a level that they KNOW will freak out the world.
The World, which tends to be gullible and seems to prefer China to Russia (they are both detestable regimes), eats up the pandemic story,. And why not - we did with Ebola where about 1700 people died in the end...not the seventeen zillion everyone selling freeze-fried food wanted you to believe would die.
So, call me skeptical. And sure, I'm open to the Potential that there IS something bad in China...but I like things like evidence from, say, the Red Cross or some entity that didn't gun down their citizens in Tiananmen Square.
Is Beijing suppressing the true scale of infections? Nurse treating coronavirus sufferers in China claims 90,000 people have already been infected
New virus originated in China, where it has infected more than 1,970 and killed 56, and has spread worldwide
Chinese government faces mounting accusations of censoring the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak
Critics have said the Communist regime in Beijing is scrubbing critical videos from the internet
China’s president Xi Jinping warns of ‘grave situation’ as killer coronavirus accelerates
Cities across the US are on high alert as two coronavirus cases are confirmed in Chicago and Washington
Sixty-three Americans are tested in 22 states and 1,000 US citizens told to evacuate Ground Zero in Wuhan
Canadian authorities on Saturday confirmed the first case of coronavirus - a man in his 50s from Toronto
Again, I suggest keeping 50 million people quarantined is going to close more than the trickle of western money leaving for Vietnam. Why not just invade Vietnam?
Nice.