Why China won’t be paying the West coronavirus reparations any time soon

Those in the West who blame China for the Covid-19 pandemic and demand reparations for the damage to their economies have probably done Beijing a favour.They have unwittingly – or perhaps unthinkingly – reopened a scar that is deep in the Chinese psyche and given the party more of the ammunition it needs to rally the people against what it has portrayed as hostile moves to put China down.Such accusations further add fuel to the fire of ardent nationalists, who have long cautioned that China has…

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