You can already tell from the emerging environment that most specifically the governments of "Anglosphere" countries are going to predominantly play the politics of blame against China. Continental Europe less so and (excluding Taiwan), in East and South East Asia not at all.

For me this also shows the cultural and orientalist dynamic of discourse and reactions to the coronavirus. Not only have Asian countries responded very differently to the outbreak to the outbreak in the west, but they have on a senior level avoided vilifying China.

Asian countries do not have a culturally elitist and privileged attitude towards fighting disease outbreaks, not only does this make their responses better, but it also means they avoid a stigmatic "political blame game" built upon crude East-West generalisations and discourses.

In this case whilst countries like the UK and US lean towards a politics of "revenge"- comments from Indonesia's leader (despite grassroots anti-China sentiment) suggest the outbreak will change nothing concerning China's relationship with the wider region around it.

I mean for example, how can Indonesia, Vietnam and similar countries weaponize a cultural vilification over China over "animal markets" in the way western media does? It's not possible. Thus "Asian identity" becomes a clear variable in how countries react to this.

Whilst on the surface many South Koreans might harbour some anger towards China, on an official level the government simply fought the outbreak and got on with it. There is no "reckoning", there is no "China must pay".

But Taiwan itself worth mentioning. It will aim to score ideological points and criticize the WHO, but it can't weaponize ethno-cultural attacks on a high level or utilize western cultural supremacy to hit at Beijing, because that is not what Taiwan *is* in practice.