It's honestly funny to see authoritarians high on their own supply, honestly believing that if they just throw more authoritarianism at a problem, they can win.
It turns out they can't.
Also I love the poetic justice of COVID assfucking China worse than any other country when the Chinese Communist Party made COVID in their lab at the WIV.
Let their citizens travel the world - but not inside China, presumably to limit the spread in the glorious communist paradise and do their level best to cripple the outsiders and permit the CCP an easier time catching them up afterwards
Gleefully accepting donations of supplies to mitigate a problem they caused, while at the same time buying up every bit of PPE they could find ... despite telling the rest of the world it wasn't such a significant problem.
Supplying (of course) substandard PPE of their own on contracts from the outside.
This is a country that views international trade as a weapon. One that we are arming for them.
It's honestly funny to see authoritarians high on their own supply, honestly believing that if they just throw more authoritarianism at a problem, they can win.
It turns out they can't.
Also I love the poetic justice of COVID assfucking China worse than any other country when the Chinese Communist Party made COVID in their lab at the WIV.
Not exactly a full list there, though, is it?
This is a country that views international trade as a weapon. One that we are arming for them.