CCP Shatters It's Image of Competence with Shanghai Lockdown

Revolver: China’s Baffling Misstep On “Zero Covid” Gives America a Glimmer Of Hope

The most boring explanation, then, might be the best one: The CCP wanted to defeat Covid completely, and now it is too stubborn and suffering from too much tunnel vision to change course.

Overall, this is a bad thing: It’s bad for the global economy, and it’s bad for the people of China who must live through this idiocy. But it’s also bad for anyone who loves sound government. On Covid, it appears that not a single society on the planet was both high-functioning and sensible, and that’s worrisome.

Still, in an era that has been toxic and dispiriting for American patriots, there is a small glimmer of light. The modern American regime is corrupt, incompetent, stupid, and proudly mentally ill. The regime must change, or America will collapse, and it will deserve to collapse. But America’s clear and obvious failures do not mean that foreign rivals are immune to the same human failings. Their leaders are also capable of arrogance, delusion, tunnel vision, and commitment to the sunk cost fallacy. Sure, America can learn a lot from how Chinese elites view America. But China is far from an unstoppable juggernaut of competence or good sense.

For everybody who hopes that America can right itself and remain the world’s preeminent power, China’s baffling misstep on “zero Covid” is a reason for hope. Our rivals are not beating us as badly as we feared, and we have more time to fix the system than we previously thought. Still, the system must be fixed. China won’t be shooting itself in the foot forever.

The above is the conclusion. The article goes through a lot of evidence from China's recent lockdowns.

I focus so much on the American/Western ruling class because it is the only serious enemy facing Western peoples. CCP-led China cannot compete with a reinvigorated West that adheres to its core principles and core cultures of Christiantiy, science, patriarchy and capitalism. The West has inverted itself with anti-Christian beliefs, politics over science, matriarchy and equalism. The West is tearing itself down and compared to that, China looks like a winner. It isn't as incompetent. That doesn't mean it is some paragon of political or economic development.

In the past, I've also discussed how when social mood changes, China's image will change. That started years ago and President Trump used it to great effect. Looking at the lockdowns in Shanghai, will the market continue believing in China's economic invicibility? In it's leaders' competence? Or will they start realizing that the only reason the yuan isn't collapsing is that China has locked down its capital account, locked down its own busineses' and citizens' ability to move money, the way it has locked down Shanghai?