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China’s totalitarian socialism is superior to democracy in the pandemic fight
At least that’s what Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi believes. He wants the world to buy the fiction that the communist regime is the perfect answer to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
He said, “China’s signature strength, efficiency and speed in this fight has been widely acclaimed. And the institutional advantage of China’s governance is for all to see.” [Emphasis added.]
It’s “the system and culture of socialism” that does China proud, he crowed.
In other words, it’s him against us. Autocracy versus self government. Socialism versus the free market. As Wang would have it, a centralized government run by a dictator is better than mere people deciding what’s best for the people.
With the despot “Comrade Xi Jinping at its core,” Wang indicated, communist China can more easily order 1.4 billion people around at his whim and fancy than a democracy, with all its competing interests and voices, to fight the pandemic.
Playing out in the background of this pandemic is an existential challenge to Western Democracies and their governing principles of liberty, equality and the sanctity of the individual. Wang has thrown down the cudgel.
If you can stand to read almost 2,000 words of this masturbatory rubbish go to: “Resolutely Defeating the COVID-19 Outbreak and Promoting the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind,” by Yang Yi. It’ll make you vomit or laugh, at least those of us who don’t see all paths inevitably leading to Shangri-la. (If it’s too much for you, I’ve selected a few paragraphs for you at the end of this post.)
In fairness, Wang published this chest-thumping early last month, before it became apparent to all that China not just botched its handling of the pandemic, but gifted it to the world.
It originated in China and spread from China. The communist regime hid the dangers from its own people. The doctor who tried to warn China and got punished for it died a martyr. Can you really trust any of the “data” ginned up by the secretive autocracy? It was China that first proclaimed that there is, “…no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.”
Yet from within America, we still hear voices, such as Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy’s, exonerating China, and even pointing to China of some kind of exemplar of how to handle coronavirus. Readers of the Chicago Tribune were treated to an op-ed that announced: “While US plays blame game, China shows leadership.” It’s embarrassing to see them abase themselves.
Socialism continues to provide evidence that it’s unworkable junk. Communist leaders like comrades Xi and Wang will defy reality by continuing to insist that they are oh-so-smart that they alone can engineer an adequate response to the pandemic. Toadies will instinctively repeat the lie.
Western democracies and their love of liberty have endured now for centuries, led by the United States, against the onslaught of tyrannies of the left and right. It will continue to do so.
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Here’s Wang’s blah, blah, blah, delivered straight:
China has set a high standard for improving global public health governance. This outbreak is a major test for China’s governance system and capacity, and for the global governance system and capacity. China’s signature strength, efficiency and speed in this fight has been widely acclaimed, and the institutional advantage of China’s governance is for all to see. Under the unified command, coordination and direction of the Party Central Committee, an inter-agency task force was set up immediately after the outbreak; first-level public health emergency response was activated in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities; and tens of thousands of medical workers and massive amounts of medical supplies and daily necessities were rapidly delivered to Hubei from across the country. These are vivid examples of the institutional strength of socialism with Chinese characteristics in pooling resources for major undertakings.
The international community shares the view that the speed, intensity and scope of China’s epidemic response is rarely seen in the world, that the leadership, response, mobilization and implementation capabilities China has demonstrated are exemplary for the rest of the world, and that China has gathered valuable experience for the international community in handling emergencies caused by infectious diseases and advancing global public health governance.
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