...for China the stakes were a lot higher - picture half a billion people taking to the streets and demanding an end to a government whose only claim to legitimacy was its ability to provide millions of ever-more-lucrative jobs...
For weeks, the media has demonized anyone who suggested the lab could have been responsible for the coronavirus outbreak as a dangerous conspiracy theorist peddling fake news...
PBOC demands currency deposited at banks must be disinfected with ultraviolet light and then held for a week or longer before being released back into the wilds of the economy...
"The totality of how migration and terrorism intertwined as a destructive force against Europe, and the continent's response, remains largely unacknowledged, undocumented, and not analyzed"...
The new information released by the national party via China's state-controlled media suggests Xi was monitoring the government's response to the virus long before they had anticipated.
It will be a mistake to blame the financial and economic events that follow on the coronavirus, but inevitably this is what those who have relied on a failing monetary system will do...