I’m starting to wonder if this is the year the history books will mark as the decline of Western hegemony. I have no doubt China aren’t being entirely transparent about their COVID response but you can’t not be impressed by how they started the year by building a hospital in a week and are ending it by testing an entire city https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/12/world/coronavirus-covid/a-chinese-city-will-test-all-9-5-million-of-its-residents