The Wuhan coronavirus is a metaphor for two political ideas that are incompatible with the realities of the modern world: The Communist Party of China and American isolationism.
If ever an epitaph is written for the People's Republic of China, it may be Wuhan Mayor Zhou Xianwang, trying to apologize for delays in informing the public about the coronavirus: "If in the end you say someone has to be held accountable, you say the masses have opinions, then we're willing to appease the world by resigning."
Planes are evacuating foreign citizens out of China, and business travel into China is virtually at a halt.
The Centers for Disease Control are testing travelers from China at 20 U.S. airports.
China's military penetrations into the South China Sea are a form of man-made political virus designed to weaken the orientation of the Pacific region toward the U.S. China's Belt and Road initiative is in more countries than the coronavirus.
The U.S. president's opposition won't want to hear it, but Mr. Trump's trade negotiations with China may offer a rough model.
The real China problem is bigger than one trade deal or this virus, but the coronavirus has focused minds.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-communist-coronavirus-11580341911?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
If ever an epitaph is written for the People's Republic of China, it may be Wuhan Mayor Zhou Xianwang, trying to apologize for delays in informing the public about the coronavirus: "If in the end you say someone has to be held accountable, you say the masses have opinions, then we're willing to appease the world by resigning."
Planes are evacuating foreign citizens out of China, and business travel into China is virtually at a halt.
The Centers for Disease Control are testing travelers from China at 20 U.S. airports.
China's military penetrations into the South China Sea are a form of man-made political virus designed to weaken the orientation of the Pacific region toward the U.S. China's Belt and Road initiative is in more countries than the coronavirus.
The U.S. president's opposition won't want to hear it, but Mr. Trump's trade negotiations with China may offer a rough model.
The real China problem is bigger than one trade deal or this virus, but the coronavirus has focused minds.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-communist-coronavirus-11580341911?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
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