Re: China Must get It's Come-uppance?
China has invested billions of $ in many countries around the world to use as leverage (blackmail) to prevent countries from going against China when China does wrong. To my knowledge this tactic has been used twice in a battle of words with the UK with China threatening to pull it's money out of London (it is invested heavily in property in London) if the UK continued with it's threats. Many of the oil producing Arab countries have also done the same when it has come to international talks and decisions on human rights abuses and the Arab countries have threatened to pull their money out of London and the UK government has caved in each time.
The only reason China is powerful as it is because of the greed from business owners and shareholders. These people want to take advantage of China's cheap labour as well as wanting to sell their products to a country that has 22% of the worlds population. That means big money and of course greedy owners and shareholders want that thus it is very easy for China to say 'yes you can sell here but you must bring your manufacturing production here also'. China has extremely cheap labour and an abundance of people to make up it's workforce. A persons life is cheap in China, you die on the job, there will be over 10000 people ready to take that person's place. You remove those businesses and China suddenly becomes nothing.
The only way to hurt China is to remove all western manufacturing business and bring them back to the countries where they were originally. Threaten the country with the one thing it needs dearly...manufacturing.
If convid-19 did come from the Wuhan bio lab, there is no way the Chinese government is going to admit that, they will just lie through their back teeth and try to play the victim in that countries are trying to bully them.
A good example of the world letting China do what it wants is the situation with the Uighurs being forced to convert in re-education camps and all the world does is say 'bad China, behave'. Now compare that to Muslim illegal immigrants who are taken to detention centres to be processed in the UK and the rest of Europe. There was a massive outcry from Muslim countries, human rights groups and civil liberty groups and charities all screaming at the top of their lungs saying these people were being mistreated because they was simply being put into detention camps rather than social housing to await their fate. Many countries relented to the pressure for fear of bad PR but China and the re-education camps, still going on and the rest of the world just sits by because they do not want to upset China because of the power China holds over them.
With all that said, what I've written will just go to show that when it comes to convid-19, China will not give a damn about anyone else but itself and will blame anyone and everyone and you watch, the world will just sit by and do nothing other than just give out the usual 'Bad China, you were naughty, don't do it again'.