Fat chance. The Chinese are peasants and can be killed for disobedience.
God said, “OK”
I like Gordan, but I think the premise is a lot of wishful thinking on his part and not strong analysis.
Errr... folks — the Delta Variant is supposed to be less lethal than the Original strain.
Yes, it’s more contagious, but why the panic?
Learn from the British experience.
Highly unlikely. What is more likely is that the lockdowns and travel bans are meant to keep the population from knowing what’s happening in the outside world or from getting any independent ideas.
The so-called Delta variant is even less lethal than the original, which they had exaggerated to begin with. Fear is the best means of control and our masters, both in China and in the West, have made full use of this golden opportunity that has been handed them.
“The Delta Variant Could End The Chinese Communist Party”
Nah, not gonna happen. The chicoms will simply blame it on the USA imperialists which they have already done. They’ll simply keep blaming it on the USA until it becomes “true.”
You have to remember that coms will lie, cheat, steal and kill to maintain their grip on the ‘peasants.’
No it wont, it will just make it stronger.
Gordon Chang has been a contrary indicator for 25 years. The opposite of what he predicts happens with regularity.
If the Delta variant could kill the CCP, then let’s create more of them.
Chang sounds optimistic that the COVID viruses will seriously weaken the CCP’s iron-fisted control. Doubt it.
Communist dictatorships have never fallen from natural or even manmade causes. Cuba is still a Stalinist state and Nicaragua is imitating it and has been for decades (after jailing or killing off any democratic opposition). No. Korea is still around after 70+ years. Not going anywhere soon.
Communism is making a strong comeback in Peru, possibly Bolivia, and a few other countries in So. America (remember hardcore reds ran Brazil for many years until their economic policies brought them down, now popular voting).
Xi can let millions of his people die and like Stalin, say, “One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Communists loves statistics. Unfortunately the “people” are the “statistics” while the Party leaders live untouched lives of wealth, power and a “I don’t give a damn about the Blue Ants” mentality.
I hope it’s the end of the American communist party too.
It is the Karma Variant.
If so, what on earth will the Democrats do?????
What would replace it?
Just when you believe that their might be limits to Fake News!
The Goebbels-like media is hard at work...
Optimist.
Or consider the Soviet Union. All through the '80s all we heard was that they had more tanks than us, more missiles, better this, more of that. We should offer concessions fast, we had no chance! And yet by the end of the decade (when they had existed for just about 70 years) they collapsed altogether and ceased to exist.
Note: Communist China is about 75 years old now. There are cracks in their society, deep ones. They live in interesting times. We'll see what happens.
There is some some truth to this.
Foreigners: In this case ABC’s (American Born Chinese) and their parents, who fled NYC, LA and London. They went back to China taking the variant with them.
Then when Covid, Beta-Epsilon-Tau variant springs up in Beijing, they’ll high-tail it back to NYC, LA, and London so that spread it there because they’ll already have it when they leave.
If China really wants to stop this, they need to quarantine all arrivals like HK, or go full Sweden. Otherwise this will never end.