I doubt that it was due to Socialism that China managed Covid so we’ll - in fact I would even argue China is not a Socialist country.
Instead I believe it were the drastic measures that China being an authoritarian state was able to impose (e.g. locking down 13 million people because of 50 covid cases in Xi’an).
China is able to keep covid in check precisely because it is a socialist nation that puts the interests of the majority above the interests of capitalists. The only segment of the population that’s not happy about the handling of the pandemic in China are the rich who are inconvenienced by the quarantines and travel restrictions. If China was a capitalist nation, then it would’ve handled the pandemic exactly the same way all the actual capitalist nations did.
Westerners thinking they understand what political system China has better than people who actually live in China has to be one of my favorite tropes. 87.6% of young Chinese identify with Marxism, and the party has 95 million members. The idea that they don’t understand how to do socialism right is peak chauvinism.
I doubt that it was due to Socialism that China managed Covid so we’ll - in fact I would even argue China is not a Socialist country. Instead I believe it were the drastic measures that China being an authoritarian state was able to impose (e.g. locking down 13 million people because of 50 covid cases in Xi’an).
China is able to keep covid in check precisely because it is a socialist nation that puts the interests of the majority above the interests of capitalists. The only segment of the population that’s not happy about the handling of the pandemic in China are the rich who are inconvenienced by the quarantines and travel restrictions. If China was a capitalist nation, then it would’ve handled the pandemic exactly the same way all the actual capitalist nations did.
Westerners thinking they understand what political system China has better than people who actually live in China has to be one of my favorite tropes. 87.6% of young Chinese identify with Marxism, and the party has 95 million members. The idea that they don’t understand how to do socialism right is peak chauvinism.