“has rolled extreme public health crackdowns into the broader “Beijing Consensus” or “China Model” of totalitarian state capitalism that it has been promoting since the advent of the 2007-2009 GFC”

It’s more 4 domestic brainwashing, & very successful. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/06/chinese-coronavirus-spread-worldwide-on-new-silk-road/

I am going 2 write a little bit more on this subject, but let me put out “the end outcome “first:
As disastrous as #WuhanCoronaVirus has been, & Europe retaliatory actions wrt will be very limited, if there is any retaliation at all, 1 of reasons being that no one...
1/n

can prove that did Intentionally “launch” the #COVID19 pandemic or a quasi global biological warfare from Wuhan, or even by accident.

Fundamentally, the relative political “inaction” of & Europe wrt Dream In the past, now & future has many much deeper reasons, 2/n

@michaelxpettis , a macro economics author based in PKU where I graduated from , just wrote today, well on money, that
“democracies were in fact adjusting, while autocracies were able to postpone adjustment” 4 the past 20+ yrs of Dream, 3/n https://twitter.com/mntklprsn62/status/1247899403286761479?s=20

example: the liberal concept of empathy, diversity, social equality & equity have been widely accepted across West, more in Europe than in perhaps, as the very basic & fundamental human values of today, & they are applying obviously far beyond race, like open-border? 4/n

No identity-based hatred is allowed, identity being sexuality, race，nationality, belief, & more 2 come?

& one should not ever have identity-based hatred, however & wherever that hatred may come from, or possibly justified, it is unconditional.

But not in Yet, 5/n

“has rolled extreme public health crackdowns into the broader “Beijing Consensus” or “China Model” of totalitarian state capitalism that it has been promoting since” 2008GFC.
It’s more 4 domestic brainwashing, & very successful, combined with Xi’s belt & road obviously, 6/n

Obviously, we all hope become more Westernized, but it’s hard:

In Chinese political culture, citizens, political parties, & state have no boundaries with each other:

State & one’s own family is one big family,
CCP are our parents,
Parents make mistakes sometimes, 7/n

But CCP as our parents are still our dear parents with a great heart of a mom.

I am going 2 end this thread on a more positive & optimistic note:

Despite of all these,

#ChinaAndWest2liveAsOddCouple4ever

They got no choice, & it’s good 4 both.

https://twitter.com/readtw271/status/1246069111102132225?s=20