China very recently screwed up their entire country because The Party was too arrogant to admit they screwed up on COVID policy because they talked mad shit abo

China very recently screwed up their entire country because The Party was too arrogant to admit they screwed up on COVID policy because they talked mad shit about how much of a better job they were doing compared to the west, and maybe they were, but their approach simply didn't work post-Omicron but they couldn't admit it. COVID itself may have been far more controlled in the first place if doctors talking about it in its early days weren't censored by the party. I would credit China's rise to the industriousness of Chinese people more than crediting everything to the ruling regime. I also don't see them surpassing the west anytime soon because there is an impending demographic collapse even more severe that is in the west - and without the same immigration culture.