China's 10 Year Constituency in the Broader World Has Been Irreversibly Undermined

Xi's constituency and legitimacy in China is undermined by this. I do think that they'll spin it and they are aggressively spinning that their reaction function has been much more effective than anyone else in the world save South Korea, but also anyone who looks at that data. The rest of the world's attitude towards China is fundamentally shifted back to the CCP's visceral need to control information flows and to produce propaganda. So a stupid strategy of trying to kind of pretend that it didn't originate in Wuhan really forces the other nations to take an even more assertive countermeasure.