{"id":10904,"date":"2021-09-30T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=10904"},"modified":"2023-10-09T21:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:32:24","slug":"chinas-forced-unity-declares-economic-victory-over-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/chinas-forced-unity-declares-economic-victory-over-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s\u00a0Authoritarianism Facilitates Economic Growth Amid COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Andrea Gonzalez<br \/>\n<\/b><b><i>Digital Editor<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite being the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, China&#8217;s swift and strict response to the pandemic allegedly led to a 2.3 percent increase in GDP in the year 2020, reports\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/18\/958097170\/china-says-its-economy-recovering-from-the-pandemic-grew-2-3-last-year\"><b>NPR<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The pandemic posed a unique challenge for the communist government, but not an unmanageable one. Leaning into authoritarian tactics, the Chinese government\u00a0 was able to fight the virus while simultaneously building back its economy. Although the United States was unable to tout a similar GDP increase,\u00a0 the tactics used by the Chinese government to achieve this financial success came at an unimaginable price.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wuhan saw the first cases of COVID-19 in November of 2019, and doctors and scientists began to warn the public about the dangers of the virus. At the same time, Chinese authorities silenced and censored public and expert opinion to avoid panic and continue national operations. However, the strategy did not work. Soon, COVID-19 spread to over 31,000 people, reports\u202f<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(WHO)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The entire country soon went into a brutal lockdown, highlighted by the use of surveillance drones to detect unmasked individuals in Mongolia,<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">door-to-door health checks<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u202fby government officials, and forced isolation in government facilities, as reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/chinas-coronavirus-lockdown-strategy-brutal-but-effective\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Guardian.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Concurrently, financial operations came to a halt, and state\u2019s GDP shrunk 6.8 percent in the first quarter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in the U.S.,\u202f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a lack of transnational standards<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u202fdoomed the country\u2019s ability to fight the pandemic as notes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/states-with-few-coronavirus-restrictions-are-spreading-the-virus-beyond-their-borders\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ProPublica<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Millions across the country, fearful of the virus, stayed in their homes and made it a priority to leave only if necessary. Many others did not. Public officials and skeptics downplayed the virus, embracing individual choice for masks and quarantine. For the first time, a silent and invisible enemy threatened Americans, one that could neither be hunt down nor keep it outside of U.S. borders. In response to the strict lockdowns implemented in many states, a sizable proportion of the U.S. population fled their homes to states and towns with loose pandemic regulations, a decision that would only exacerbate the severity of the health crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Trump administration\u202ffed into the \u201cgo it alone\u201d mindset of many Americans, as reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2021\/06\/individualism-still-spoiling-pandemic-response\/619133\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><b>\u202f<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A polarized country that prioritized individualism over a health crisis exacerbated one of the most significant economic disasters since The Great Depression. COVID-19 crushed small businesses, while the number of jobless Americans grew to over 14 million and hospitals reached full capacity, leading to the deaths of thousands each day from COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simultaneously, the Chinese government continued to report decreasing numbers of infection via its draconian lock down tactics. These extreme measures to detect and contain coronavirus did allow for a quicker return to normalcy in 2020, but as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ijrl\/article\/32\/3\/549\/5954392\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Journal of Refugee Law<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports, public health crises do not justify the blind stripping of basic human rights\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The World Health Organization however applauded Chinese efforts in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unitary action<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">against coronavirus, reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/02\/chinas-reaction-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-violates-human-rights\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Guardian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In the last quarter, the Chinese economy grew 4.9 percent. At the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, President Xi Jinping celebrated they country\u2019s response to the pandemic and its economic accomplishments. The leader said, &#8220;in the global struggle against the virus, we have acted with wisdom and strength.&#8221;\u202fDespite the WHO and the government\u2019s belief that their response was not only apt, but also efficacious, the public suffered an from nearly militaristic treatment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The strategy to recover from the economic contraction of early 2020 was a treat to big businesses in China. The nation&#8217;s focus on increasing global exports was essential for its recovery, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2020\/10\/19\/coronavirus-chinese-economy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CBS News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that the Central Bank of China\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">provided companies with tax rebates and loans<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; to avoid laying off workers.\u00a0Though the U.S. attempted a similar strategy, the rising number of COVID-19 cases prevented Americans from returning to work.\u00a0By the end of 2020, the\u00a0Chinese\u00a0government encouraged the population to safely return to pre-pandemic conditions and spend. At the Gold Week,\u00a0Chinese New Year,\u00a0citizens\u00a0spent $6.9 billion in eight days of celebration.\u202f\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although China was the only nation to grow its GDP in 2020, the state\u2019s citizens suffered immensely for that outcome. The iron grip that the government exercised over its citizens left no room for indiscretion from the population. Today, images of music festivals, crowded flea markets, and economic recovery\u00a0serve to promote\u00a0China&#8217;s questionable pandemic response tactics. Nevertheless, the nation&#8217;s\u00a0economic\u00a0victory over coronavirus\u00a0does not reflect the well-being of\u00a0its population, but\u00a0rather\u00a0its forte in authoritarian control.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, China&#8217;s swift and strict response to the pandemic allegedly led to a 2.3 percent increase in GDP in the year 2020, reports\u202fNPR. The pandemic posed a unique challenge for the communist government, but not an unmanageable one. Leaning into authoritarian tactics, the Chinese government\u00a0 was able to fight the virus while simultaneously building back its economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5150,"featured_media":10925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,7],"tags":[393,394,926,1879,1887],"class_list":["post-10904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2021","category-opinion","tag-china","tag-economics","tag-opinion","tag-who","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China&#039;s\u00a0Authoritarianism Facilitates Economic Growth Amid COVID-19 - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/09\/30\/chinas-forced-unity-declares-economic-victory-over-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China&#039;s\u00a0Authoritarianism Facilitates Economic Growth Amid COVID-19 - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite being the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, China&#039;s swift and strict response to the pandemic allegedly led to a 2.3 percent increase in GDP in the year 2020, reports\u202fNPR. 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