Opinion | China’s coronavirus success boosts confidence that its system is the best answer to the country’s challenges
- China’s leading Politburo said last week that it had achieved ‘an extremely extraordinary glory in this extremely unusual year’
- China is set to be the only Group of 20 nation to post economic growth in 2020, with the likes of the US, Europe Union, Britain and Japan still struggling with lockdowns
The year 2020 started off with huge challenges for China, but it is ending as a year of victory for Beijing and the ruling Communist Party.
It offered Beijing fresh confidence in its own values and capabilities. This, in turn, will leave a mark on China’s political, economic, diplomatic and even military decisions in the coming years.
China’s trajectory in 2020 has offered strong support for the belief that China is on the right path while liberal democracy is in decline
Some may complain about the huge human and social costs involved in China’s rigid testing and quarantines, and others may continue to question whether China’s handling of the coronavirus in the early days missed an opportunity to contain its global spread, but it does not change the fact that China’s results are among the best.
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Returning to Wuhan one year since the Chinese city became ground zero of the Covid-19 pandemic