I’ve had a couple of pops, but I have zero expectations that anything will change regarding them as a result of this. They gave us the virus, lied about it, sold us **** kit, and have a near global monopoly on the raw materials that go into many heavily used medicines - including those now, apparently, in short supply in ITUs. The world, not just us, will be dependent on China’s economy to drag us out of recession, the recession that the Chinese made. We’ll be too scared to hold them to account, or even politely ask that they close live animal markets. The pathetic, fawning, arse licking of the WHO towards them will be seen from many governments.
I don’t think the Chinese Government did this on purpose, their economy and population have also taken a beating. But they are certainly manoeuvring to be the big and only winner out of it, tightening their grip on the world economy and the infrastructure of lots of countries which will be beholden to them in perpetuity, economic satellite states. All helped because for the first time in my lifetime the US has a president with no interest in world leadership, leaving a lovely vacuum for Xi to fill.
Still if you treat totalitarian bullies as if they are normal, acceptable members of the world community simply because they are economically powerful you really deserve to reap what you sow.
Enough?
