What has also worked is that, in just six weeks and without lifting a finger (or threatening to fire a missile) China, our mortal enemy, has done serious damage to America's and the West's economic systems and has wreaked havoc on the liberty-base social fabric of the United States.
It's not all that surprising that China has been able to seriously disrupt the West's economic system (although not to the extent that upwards of 130,000,000 people in less-developed countries face starvation as the result of the lockdown of the West), but what is very surprising to me is that the Chinese have developed such a thorough understanding, comprehensive to the point of being shocking, of the American physche ... that they have done a breathtaking amount of damage to a free society through fear, even as the cause of the fear has turned out to be wildly exaggerated.
China has also been hurt by the economic downturn; their people, but not their masters. China will continue their expansion in to the developing countries and rape their resources.