The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic began in China in late November and early December 2019.  Now many accuse the Chinese authorities of negligence and the fact that they did not take sufficient measures to prevent the spread of the virus, thereby contributing to the infection of the inhabitants of all countries on the planet.  However, the Chinese Communists had a completely different task. In order to understand the logic of the Chinese authorities, you need to know what China is.  In modern China, there is not a traditional nation-state, but a party-state.  They have no separation of powers as in Western countries.  Nevertheless, there is still a particular division of power in China. Power in China is divided among several opposing communist groups. The most famous are the Communist Youth League (CYL) faction and the Shanghai faction.  The CYL faction was significantly weakened in 2016 by...(Read Full Article)