1 | The contrast between the current state of the United States and China, especially about COVID and the economy, has got to be a huge resource for Xi in terms of domestic support. |
2 | China gives unproven COVID-19 vaccines to thousands, with risks unknown. |
3 | Authoritarian Strategy: Effective, but Suffocating. China’s approach to keep COVID-19 at bay has helped restore confidence and allowed businesses to reopen. |
4 | Now, as a new COVID-19 wave engulfs Europe and the United States, the organization is in the middle of a geopolitical standoff between the world’s two greatest powers, the United States and China. |
5 | China aims to end extreme poverty, but COVID-19 exposes gaps. |
6 | China’s early efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19, including lengthy lockdowns across broad areas of the country, left rural residents stranded hundreds of miles from the factories where they work. |
7 | Party propaganda has asserted that China’s success in extinguishing COVID-19 infections shows its overall “institutional superiority.” |
8 | China Peddles Falsehoods to Obscure Origin of COVID Pandemic. To push the idea that the virus didn’t come from China, the government has misrepresented experts’ remarks and given dubious theories... |
9 | By some measures, China is leading the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine |
10 | Alas, we aren’t who we think we are. COVID-19 was supposed to be China’s Chernobyl. It’s ended up looking more like the West’s. |