The magnitude of what the rest of the world will do to China should match the magnitude of the damage they have caused to the world. And yeah, I fully expect that the only country willing to do anything substantive will be the U.S., and only because of Trump.
If I were king for a day, I would issue an ultimatum to the Chicom government: Either permit outside inspectors to examine the weapons lab, and to ever after monitor its activities, as well as closing all wet markets, OR face a shutdown of all travel from China, formal recognition of Taipei as the capital of China, and suspension of all agricultural products to mainland China. Should they choose the latter, I would make lifting of those measures dependent solely upon the willingness of the current government to step down and install a democratic government in its place.
Of course, all of that is “unthinkable”, but this current crisis was unthinkable, too. And if we don’t take DRASTIC action against China it will happen again, with a possibly far more virulent pathogen next time. As we can see from the economic destruction this time around, we absolutely cannot permit this to happen again. We wouldn’t survive another round of this. So what to do?
Any of my suggested measures above would likely lead to war with China, but what do we think would happen if China inflicted something like this on the world again? There would be nothing left to lose at that point, and presuming the Chicoms remained as intransigent as they are today (a certainty), the only choice left would be to threaten them with destruction (or actually destroy them). I could see a scenario if this keeps happening where we would be left with no choice but to immediately destroy any Chinese city where an outbreak was beginning.
I know, “unthinkable.”
Covid-19 is for certain derived from the disgustingly ugly horseshoe bat that is found only in remote caves in Yunnan Province, more than 800 miles southwest of Wuhan. It was never on the menu at any Wuhan wet market. The wet market story is just a convenient cover.
The only question is: did Covid-19 accidentally leak out of the Wuhan bio lab, or was it part of a deliberate biological warfare plan?
The EU will go right back in china’s arms after this. Like with liberal progressive socialist causes they need outside sustenance to survive and to prove to the world that one world government works