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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.

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China gives unproven COVID-19 vaccines to thousands, with risks unknown.

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Authoritarian Strategy: Effective, but Suffocating. China’s approach to keep COVID-19 at bay has helped restore confidence and allowed businesses to reopen.

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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.

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China aims to end extreme poverty, but COVID-19 exposes gaps.

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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.

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Party propaganda has asserted that China’s success in extinguishing COVID-19 infections shows its overall “institutional superiority.”

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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...

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By some measures, China is leading the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine

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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.