“Except that they’re crashing their economy, long term, with this.”
You do have a point however I think with the need for Chinese products over the long term due to production costs they still have the upper hand on this. We do not know the long term effects of this yet. We are weeks away from knowing globally how this will affect all economies.
What’s that sound?
The sound of the supply chain being moved out of China...
This will hurt them long term too.
It’s clear they can’t manage something like this.
They arrested 8 doctors in early January for reporting an outbreak of a SARS-like disease.
Yup, shoot the messenger. In this case IIRC they just made them confess to ‘rumor mongering’ on TV and didn’t actually shoot them. But it’s China, there was always that chance...