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ICYMI – global anti-China sentiment at its highest since 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown

  
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A piece via Reuters on an internal Chinese report by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping

  • Reuters cite an unnamed source, and add: “Reuters has not seen the briefing paper, but it was described by people who had direct knowledge of its findings.”
  • Highlights:
  • report presented early last month
  • concluded that global anti-China sentiment is at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown
  • As a result, Beijing faces a wave of anti-China sentiment led by the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic and needs to be prepared in a worst-case scenario for armed confrontation between the two global powers, according to people familiar with the report’s content, who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter.
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We’ve been seeing a tick u0p in rhetoric aimed at China. most noisily from the US but it wider spread than that (Australia, for example).
 Its been a factor in some of the risk unwind we have seen.
A piece via Reuters on an internal Chinese report by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders including President Xi Jinping

China president Xi: Situation over prevention of coronavirus outbreak is still severe

  
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Some remarks by China president Xi Jinping via state television

Virus
  • China will definitely win the fight against the coronavirus outbreak
  • China will adopt more decisive measures to contain the spread in Hubei
  • To speed up development of drugs that have good clinical effects against the virus
Xi is not really downplaying the situation too much for the time being but is still exerting some calmness in his attitude as he proclaims that they will be able to best the beast.
As Chinese businesses and factories reopen this week, it’ll be interesting to see if there will be a further spread of the virus – although the highest precaution is being taken. The fear is that is that we may see a resurgence in the number of cases some time down the road.
And the worst-case scenario as mentioned before, is that we may very well have to live with the fact that this virus is here to stay and it will be a threat to our day-to-day lives.
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