[throwaway29358]

The more the economic crisis worsens, and the more people have to watch their parents and grandparents die prematurely, the more virulent the global anti-China sentiment will get. The #fuckchina hashtag is really popular (not trending though, probably due to censorship) on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23fuckchina&src=typed_query&f=...

I don't think the CCP realizes yet just how harsh the backlash is going to be. China has zero soft power now. Expect to see supply chains being rerouted.

[mrich]

Don't think that will happen. China will clean up the root cause of the virus quickly (wild animal markets). They seem to have the outbreak under control now, are ramping up production again and are in excellent position to help other countries dealing with the crisis now, which is exactly what they are doing:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/16/africa/jack-ma-donate-mas...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-doctors-and-supplies-ar...

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-serbia-ch...

[JoeAltmaier]

The Chinese have apparently quit testing, so naturally it seems they have it 'under control' since they report zero new cases (detected).

And the live-animal markets have produced disease before, every year in fact for decades, and not been 'cleaned up' so far. I have little confidence in any of that happening.

I have no problem with the Chinese as people, but their current government is not to be admired.

[mrich]

I'm also a bit surprised by the low number of reported cases (there were some, but apparently only from foreigners - which was heavily publicized)

Certainly there are new infections but I'm optimistic that they can and will be contained. They simply have too much to lose here to just "manipulate the numbers"

[berdario]

> The Chinese have apparently quit testing, so naturally it seems they have it 'under control' since they report zero new cases (detected).

That's patently untrue

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/bay-area-woman-f...

[JoeAltmaier]

Foreigners only?

[berdario]

No, here's a report of an indigenous case:

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2003224819/

This is exactly what you expect to happen when efforts at containing the virus have been successful: the number of new cases gradually tapers off, until it reaches 0 or almost 0, and most new cases are due to people coming from areas of the world in which it's still raging.

The outbreak started earlier in China, and it's thus unsurprising to see that they reached this point earlier than in other countries.

[berdario]

Really? I understand that Trump is pushing a lot of anti-chinese rethoric, but outside of the US the optics are pretty different.

https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-company-donates-tens-thousa...

Chinese companies are sending stocks of masks to help Italy to recover.

https://mobile.twitter.com/heylauragao/status/12386016724542...

China is also sharing the expertise of their medical team with Italy...

Compare with the US:

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/03/us-air-force-flew...

They deprived Italy of half a million testing kits, in the area in which they are most needed!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/not-for-sale-a...

And they're trying to deny the vaccine to other countries...

If anything, I expect people to be furious at the US, after this whole event will be over.