Memo to Beijing: COVID-19 Doesn’t Recognize Your Authority
Communist Party leaders make one tragic blunder after another in virus outbreak
A Chinese guard wears a protective mask and suit as he waits to check temperatures and register people entering a building in a commercial area in Beijing on Feb. 21, 2020. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Facing both an epidemic and economic recession, China finds itself truly stuck between a very large rock of economic recession and an exceedingly hard place of a deadly epidemic. And worse, there is no clear path out of this awful predicament.
James Gorrie
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James Gorrie is the author of the 2013 book “The China Crisis” and discusses current events and China on his YouTube Podcast, The Banana Republican.
