Pandemic Has Accelerated Beijing’s Plans to Surpass US, Chinese Scholar Brags

Li Yi talks about U.S.-China relationship at Shenzhenwan Dialog Forum in Shenzhen, China, on Oct. 16, 2020. Screenshot/YouTube

A Chinese scholar bragged last month about Beijing’s handling of the pandemic, gleefully comparing China’s low official death toll from the CCP virus to that in the United States, which now numbers more than 260,000.

Li Yi, who is a sociologist and also a U.S. resident, also said the pandemic’s global economic devastation means China’s plan to surpass the United States has been accelerated.