Xi Jinping previously threatened that “this time, in response to the global pandemic of the new pneumonia epidemic, the leadership and institutional strength of each country will be judged. The time and the situation are on our side, and this is where our determination and confidence lie. The words were full of confidence.
U.S. Secretary of State John Blinken, together with British Foreign Secretary John Lantao, responded to this Chinese “bottom line” before the G7 summit in London: “the West is not over (yet), declaring that countries sharing democratic values will work closely together, not to contain the rise of China, but to maintain the basic international order in order to counteract the challenges of Russia and China. The scent of the two sides of the circle is clear. Is the “time and situation” on the side of Xi Jinping, who boasts a high degree of centralization?
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The actual fact is that the actual fact is that the particulars of the actuals are not necessarily the same. In terms of the epidemic that has been raging for years, how did it get from Wuhan to a “global pandemic”? After all, was it not due to a highly centralized system that was slow to respond? Remember, the epidemic first appeared in Wuhan in early December 2019. Almost a month later, Dr. Li Wenliang, the “whistle blower”, sounded the alarm in a post on December 30. Were the authorities alerted to the situation?
No. The Wuhan government was still busy meeting and planning for the next year’s administration, singing and dancing for its Spring Festival reunion banquet. Meanwhile, the Wuhan public security authorities arrested Li Wenliang and charged him with “publishing false statements on the Internet”, forcing him to sign a letter of admonishment. It was not until January 20, 2020, three weeks after Li Wenliang’s alert, that Xi Jinping returned from his state visit to Myanmar and gave instructions on the outbreak. By that time, the virus, which is highly transmissible, had already been in circulation for more than a month.
How did the delay get to this point? Wuhan Mayor Zhou Xianwang told CCTV news channel on January 27 that in China’s system, everything must wait for Xi Jinping to open up: “As a local government, I can only disclose after I get information and authorization, …… and later, especially after the State Council held an executive meeting on January 20 …… require local responsibility, after this, our work is much more proactive.” The system is “superior” to the one that is set in a respectful way, the central party hammering the voice, as can be seen. Li Wenliang’s last words – “A healthy society should not have only one voice” – deny that “time and momentum ” on the side of the system.
Despite the delay in fighting the epidemic, isn’t China’s economy still “strong”? I’m afraid not, according to Xi Jinping, who in April 2020 gave a “major instruction” to deal with the new situation brought about by the epidemic: “a new development pattern in which the domestic cycle is the mainstay and the domestic and international cycles promote each other”. A year down the road, he had to admit that “practice up” “double cycle” appeared “eight major misunderstandings”. Such as only focus on the domestic cycle but open abroad but a large contraction; each for their own, delineated, “to engage in low-level logistics cycle”; the name to solve the “neck” technical difficulties, but in fact engage in “high and grand “duplicate construction, concocting bad projects; blindly expand investment, over-stimulate consumption …… and so on.
Formalistic performance projects can hardly support the economy
In short, the centralized system, the top has a policy, the bottom has a countermeasure of the failure of the pattern; “misconceptions” of more than what Xi Jinping called the eight only? Can such a system that is so accommodating and wasteful of resources have real economic benefits? In November 2013, he stressed at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee that “market allocation of resources is the most efficient form”. If you have this knowledge, why do you bother to direct this and that all day long?
China’s GDP rose 18.3% year-on-year in the first quarter, seemingly unstoppable. But how much of it is the formalistic performance projects that Xi Jinping refers to as “mainly domestic recycling” and “high energy consumption and high emissions”? Exports were undoubtedly strong during the same period, especially for anti-epidemic materials. With the improvement of the epidemic in Europe and the United States, it is not difficult to see the top of such exports. In fact, the purchasing managers’ index shows that the export potential will slow down. In addition, Europe and the United States “card neck” consequences gradually see significant. Other than that, the supply of chips has caused Huawei’s cell phone production to fall. At this time, but swung the anti-monopoly knife slaughter Alibaba, Ant, Tencent and other most dynamic technology companies, and Huarong, Beifangzheng, Huaxia Happiness and other central enterprises, state-owned enterprises have fallen into hundreds of billions of dollars of debt difficulties at every turn. God knows what kind of chaos there will be down the road.
On the contrary, the United States, led by the “most efficient market”, has launched three vaccines in one breath for the WHO to approve the release of the vaccine, and the United Kingdom, not to be outdone, also has one. So far, China’s vaccine is not recognized by the WHO, and its vaccination rate is much lower than that of the UK and the US. The “time and the situation” are on the side of “misunderstanding” everywhere?
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