Not a great title. It kind of implies an assumption the lab leak is true and that the lockdowns are the biggest economic shock- which, if the lab leak were true

Not a great title. It kind of implies an assumption the lab leak is true and that the lockdowns are the biggest economic shock- which, if the lab leak were true, would be a coherent title, but is clearly not what the article is about. I actually think the article has it backwards though. The logic in the article is that China is important so sanctions will have a huge impact. In reality it works backwards. We only used sanctions if it's not ipmortant to us. We use sanctions on Iran, on Russia. On countries hwere it really doesn't matter to us that much, on countries where we can do much more harm to them than they to us. We won't put sanctions on China for the same reason we'll sell Saudi arms to be used in Yemen. International politics are largely performative.