Internal contradictions? Contradictions with the outside world? I sort of completely missed the boat on the how and why of this but it has piqued my interest.
Internal contradictions? Contradictions with the outside world? I sort of completely missed the boat on the how and why of this but it has piqued my interest.
I agree with everything else you've said but I think the calculation here is more complex. Now that the West has come around to China being their greatest enemy, it is necessary to weigh the lives lost due to opening up from Zero COVID against the potential lives lost from permanently falling behind the West and being subject to color revolution or war.
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I’m not even convinced this move will improve the Chinese economy, which was already doing far better than the west throughout zero covid. As commies in amerikkka learned long ago, people can’t work when they’re sick, and having tens of millions of people disabled from long covid will needlessly drag down the entire economy, and also just generally increase people’s overall misery. That being said, long live China!
Yeah, I'm sure that is a part of their calculation. But I just personally am not able to do that sort of calculations. I cannot justify these kinds of decisions where you purposefully let some people die for the sake of the "greater good".
If it helps, think about russia. You know shock therapy? If china loses enough power and america cna get it they will do that there. Anothter century of humiliation for the most populous nation on earth. That does make thr contrast a little more stark