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Originally Posted by cossie1600
Lot of people will die and be hurt from this, physically and mentally. I just hope one of the result is the overthrowing of the community party.
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Careful what you wish for.
China is a loathsome beast, but still better kept under control by one strong leadership than civil war and general chaos. Too many arms, including nuclear, to even conceive of that. Those in the hands of warlords or groups willing to sell to the highest bidder, would be 1000 x worse than a virus we just need to sit out!!!
That is just the stability argument. Then, there is the economic one. Too much of the world relies on China - likely too much, but we've leveraged our whole standard of living on their backs for decades. What would amount to a sudden and lengthy disruption of global supply chains would create a much deeper and longer recession than this bug will.
Not sure what you would wish in the place of the Chinese flavour of communism. Democracy ain't going to happen there just like it failed in Russia, Iraq and Afghanistan. It has to be understood and wanted by the people, and supported by free and credible press. But whatever it might be, if the current system in China toppled, it would take decades to sort out and I doubt that the region, perhaps the world, would survive it.