Pandemic Will Alter China’s Relationship With the World

China has won this round so completely that the administration is visibly dazed, and is lashing out at the wrong opponents. The anti-Trump movement was a vast coalition, and pieces are starting to fall out of it. Now that Mr. Trump has at least temporarily departed public office, most of the constituent parts of what is now an out-of-control, woke, largely anti-American movement, will peel off as the exposure of its excesses and outrages in the last year become more obvious.

via www.nysun.com

Conrad Black seems to have mostly nailed it in this astute analysis. Except for their predilection to commit genocide and purloin the organs of religious dissidents, among other crimes, the CCP has shown remarkable political adroitness under Prince Xi. If you’re going to unleash a killer pandemic upon the world through the carelessness of your lab underlings, it’s good to be able to recover political face through the sort of high-IQ maneuvers the Party has pulled off. The cynical intelligence of the CCP was matched only by the cynical stupidity of the Americans, led by our occasionally quite cunning but almost preternaturally unintelligent leader at the time, the inestimable Donald Trump, may peace be upon him. For those still open to the possibility of the Divine, we should hope at this point for some sort of Providential intervention. We are behaving like termites who are destined to live in an ant farm designed for the shallow benefit of pseudo-Communist elites. It would be no less than we deserve. But grace has saved us before and perhaps it will again. Here’s hoping. If not, well, I actually like cold pork & beans.