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Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II - Kevin Rudd

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Coronavirus: The Limits of the CCP's Competence

It's currently 400 million people in some form of lockdown in China. So a population 16 times the size of Australia, which is pretty crazy to think about. But what has the coronavirus been? It's bigger than Tazzy. What is the coronav virus revealed about the limits of the CCP's competence? I think it's a huge debate in China right now about the essential trade off of this authoritarian political and economic system. Is there also an issue whereby local authorities don't have the right incentives to pass information up the line because they don't want to report bad news? That's long been a problem endemic in the Chinese hierarchical system of government back to imperial times.

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