I agree - everyone had been fawning over China and their impressive response to COVID-19. But the CCP is facing a existential threat right now that they may not

I agree - everyone had been fawning over China and their impressive response to COVID-19. But the CCP is facing a existential threat right now that they may not be ready for. China is not so easy to keep united, there are a ton of varied and potentially conflicting interests. Easy to keep conflict down when the pie is growing for everyone, much more difficult when the economy is falling apart at the seams and the US is beginning to get scared of how big you are getting and starting to close its market to your exports... We'll see how they manage it, based on early returns it is is looking to be ugly. Xi is ramping up the nationalist rhetoric and burning down any soft power they've built up with the West in the process. The violent language towards "rogue provinces" is increasing, they are churning up the populace with anger and hoping it stays channeled externally.