Covid-19: Chinese Defense vs. American Offense

Written by Frank Li

Covid-19 has been a total disaster in America. As the Trump administration escalates the blame game against China, let’s anticipate China’s defense, highlighted by Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador to the UK, in his recent BBC interview …

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1. China’s current defense

Watch the video below.

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As you can see, few American diplomats or political pundits can match him in eloquence and intellectual capacity!

2. Trump’s forthcoming offense against China

Four informative readings:

1. Coronavirus: Trump says China wants him to lose re-election.
2. GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus.
3. Trump administration draws up plans to punish China over coronavirus outbreak.
4. Trump Officials Are Said to Press Spies to Link Virus and Wuhan Labs.

3. China’s forthcoming defense

Here is a warning from China: Don’t smear China for votes, Beijing says as Republican election campaign plots to deflect coronavirus blame.

Simply put, China, as always, will respond step by step accordingly, just like it did throughout the trade war that President Trump waged against her.

What, then, happened in the trade war?

Read: China Is Paying for the Tariffs like Mexico Is Paying for the Wall!

4. Discussion

Covid-19 has taught us three big lessons at least:

1. In a globalized world like ours, a virus anywhere is a virus everywhere.
2. It is the ability to deal with it that differentiates a great country from an average one.
3. America has failed miserably (Top economist: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country), while China has done a much better job (The East-West Divide in Covid-19 Control).

How and why has China done a much better job than America?

China’s government is simply better than America’s, however slightly!

Now, if you are impressed with Liu Xiaoming, I have even better (or worse) news for you: Most Chinese leaders are as intelligent and competent as Liu! Two informative readings:

1. Governance in China: Past, Present, and Future.
2. Governance in America.

In short, America is behind China in governance by some 2,000 years! For more, read: The U.S. vs. China: A Great Experiment vs. A Great Civilization!

America, reform our failing political system, as I have suggested (American Democracy – Why is it failing & how to fix it?), or become a fiddle, second to China!

5. Closing

President Trump serves, throughout his first-term, for one paramount purpose: getting re-elected ad nauseam.

He will escalate his blame game against China in the coming days, weeks, and months, not to get anything from China, but as a way to fool enough Americans to vote for him this November!