SCMP: China’s coronavirus epidemic shows strengths, flaws of one country, one system
* The system allows Beijing to mobilise vast resources and take steps that would be unthinkable in the West
* But a critics say the top-down system encourages cover-ups and repeated missteps in the face of a crisis
Beijing has long said that the Chinese system of one-party rule and top-down decision-making has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and is the most effective form of governance for the world’s most populous country.
When faced with the brewing public health crisis brought on by the Covid-19 epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan
at the end of 2019 that same system acted in ways unheard of under democratic forms of government.
They included the shutdown of a city of 11 million people, almost three times the population of Los Angeles, spread over an area five times the size of London. And that was just for starters.
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