01-25-2020, 09:42 AM
(01-25-2020, 01:39 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Hong Kong and Taiwan are not mandate of heaven issues since they are different systems. The Uighers probably aren't either. The coronavirus definitely is.
We already know what stupid thing the CCP is going to do with the coronavirus: they are quarantining whole cities. This will intensify epidemics within those cities due to interference with supplies needed for food, water, and medicine. This will be at least as bad for the Chinese government as the plane shootdown was for the Iranian government.
The other major mandate of heaven issue, even bigger than the coronavirus, is more limited supplies of chicken and pork and imports in general, due to the currency decline. If the Chinese are smart, they will get cracking on importing more from the US, for China's own good and not (just) for the trade deal.
I don't see any other choices, in a country as populated and concentrated as China. Yes, the affected cities will have additional cases, and would have in any case. Keeping the disease confined (if that's even possible at this point) is a net plus. Ebola is addressed in a similar manner every time it arises.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
