Some are still praising China is unmatched in mobilizing disease response while others are predicting the crisis is China's Chernobyl moment.What I'm seeing is that it exposes crack in China's veneer of stability.People are showing rare anger at gov'thttps://nyti.ms/3aQRs8o
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People got angry about SARS, but sustained rage against this government is hard to maintain in this political system. The Wenzhou train crash, Yinchuan earthquake cover-ups, the milk powder scandal, the vaccine scandal. Lots of noise, then everyone moves on without real change.
Read the ending of my column “The state will be interpreted, proved and trusted as the only savior,” he wrote on Weibo. “All our stories are the same: They start with the failure of the state and end with its victory.”
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Even the most long-lived Chinese Imperial dynasty wasn't forever... why would the Communist dynasty be any different?
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7 Interesting Ways People Are Dealing with the Coronavirus in Wuhan The people of Wuhan are a tenacious lot it appears. Far from letting the current outbreak of 2019-nCoV defeat them, they are finding ways to cope.https://interestingengineering.com/7-interesting-ways-people-are-dealing-with-the-coronavirus-in-wuhan?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Jan28 …
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We're already seeing that unfold. 24h of relatively free sharing of news was shut down and followed by endless tales of the gov dispatching doctors, ordering factories to make masks, declaring breakthroughs in vaccine development. All part of "the Party saves" narrative.
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This quote from your piece even more directly addresses my earlier tweet: “It’s not that this nation has a bad memory,” wrote one person who pointed out the irony. “It’s because those in power don’t like that you remember.”
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It is both, although “bad memory” here should be replaced by “way of social life”: as tweeted before, since the very beginning of the Chinese history, there has been lack of “spiritual pursuits” as defined in the western frame of reference, such as religion humanity & science.
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