I think China knows exactly what it is doing.
Once the virus got out - accidentally or otherwise - they saw an opportunity. Never let a crisis go to waste, right?
They knew they were in store for an outbreak, and they knew the virus would eventually spread to the rest of the world.
But they could do something about it that few other countries could do - lock up all of their people and let them die until the virus ran its course.
They knew that the West would have to send an ambulance to every case and perform all heroic measures to save every infected person.
And they knew that, while they were extinguishing the virus by killing their people, the West would completely exhaust all of its resources and wear itself out trying to run down every case.
After that, who would be stronger? The West or China?
The fatality rate worldwide is 2% of those who have the disease.
That is not “all” of anyone’s people.
This virus is a royal pain, but it is not enough of a killer to make a dent in anyone’s population.
Greta is still going to have to figure out a better way to kill the rest of us. ;-)
Really interesting analysis.
They know US citizens will not tolerate the things we see go on in Commie China.
Even if an accidental bioweapon release..they know it is going to really cause problems here.
I go back to the article I read about the Iran Chinese energy deal. Iranians were upset because they feared their culture would disappear . China wants to take over the world.
This virus is going to do a lot of crippling and rippling damage.