Perspectives for a China Strategy

When the Munich Security ConferenceMunich Conference, The met in February 2020, ChinaChina was most frequently mentioned country, while there an exaggerated mood of Western decline. Yet as recent COVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19 pandemic, has shown, both strengths and weaknesses. Its initial censorship, suppression feedback, curtailment international information allowed pandemic to develop fester. Draconian quarantine WuhanWuhan curtailed its spread somewhat; followed by a government propaganda campaign attract others theme that China’s behavior had been benign. eventually subsides, however, China will be faced with political economic costs resulting from exposure failed public health system overly rigid party control system.