Memo to Beijing: COVID-19 Doesn’t Recognize Your Authority

Memo to Beijing: COVID-19 Doesn’t Recognize Your Authority
A Chinese guard wears a protective mask and suit as he waits to check temperatures and register people entering a building in a commercial area in Beijing on Feb. 21, 2020. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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Facing both an epidemic and economic recession, China finds itself truly stuck between a very large rock of economic recession and an exceedingly hard place of a deadly epidemic. And worse, there is no clear path out of this awful predicament.

James Gorrie
James Gorrie
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James R. Gorrie is the author of “The China Crisis” (Wiley, 2013) and writes on his blog, TheBananaRepublican.com. He is based in Southern California.
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