IMO, China made a colossal blunder handling (mishandling) the Corona virus, by locking down Wuhan to domestic travel, leaving international flights ongoing for weeks. They knew how bad it was, thus their domestic precautions.
Now, was their motivation to let the world get infected to give them a leg up on everyone else? Maybe hard to pin down Chicom thinking, but a skeptical outlook is probably the most plausible.
The world, not just the USA, has been impacted in a major way. Now, what they (we) gonna do about it? Roll over or retaliate? Economics built them, economics can bring them down a notch or two.
Maybe Nixon’s China outreach idea wasn’t as smart as he thought it was at the time. The thinking was and continued thru several administrations, bring the sleeping giant into the mainstream, they’d have to move toward democracy. Now how’d that work out. “Smart” people can sure be dumb.
DF
