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It is basically incontrovertible that China shut down domestic travel to an immense degree and paid an enormous up-front cost to do it, possibly unprecedented in human history, and continued international travel. Its close connection with Iran caused an early outbreak there.
Maybe, maybe, the government wouldn't have been able to cancel outbound flights. Certainly the United States and the UK could not do so, and indeed were never as willing as China to endanger domestic commerce. But it does appear that China made a policy choice here.
It would be a little problematic for it to cancel international flights, because there was so much travel going on that there were many many foreigners in China that needed to leave and many Chinese abroad who needed to come back. It would have been great if it had though.
It would have been a shitshow, but countries were taking convoys of their citizens out of various places at the time even just with the cruise ships.
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