Yes indeed the big winner in 2020 was the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), arguably one of the most evil organizations ever to grace this planet (a category that is of course not devoid of serious competitors).
The death toll alone during the life of Mao Zedong sits at roughly 40 million. A mind boggling number by any standards; that arises from the cumulative horrors of the aftermath of the 1949 Revolution, the Hundred Flowers Campaign (1956) , the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), the forced takeover of Tibet (1959 onward) and the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution (1968-1976).
Post Mao look no further than the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989).
Today we see the regime acting with extreme brutality towards its Uighur minority, civil rights groups on both the Mainland and Hong Kong, the Falun Gong and various dissidents/whistleblowers. It is the most powerful anti-Democratic force on the globe and its gaining momentum.
In the contemporary CCP-led-China has become an economic juggernaut (courtesy of an ill-conceived Most Favoured Nation trading status) and as the western nations lurch under the manifold of business stagnation and roll backs - that have defined our COVID-19 response - China will only become even more influential.
Certainly in relative terms, its control over our supply lines have been augmented. The self induced paralysis was a godsend for Beijing.
The CCP sits pretty at the apex of a country with a burgeoning trade surplus and an expanding clout. If ‘official’ stats are to be believed China has suffered very little (less than 5000 deaths in a population of 1.4 billion) from the COVID-19 outbreak that originated in its borders and now paralyzes the rest of the world.
However it gets even better for the elitists in the CCP. As of January 21st it will enjoy the benefits of an administration in the Oval Office that looks to treat it with kid gloves. Many of the incoming Biden team have been doing business with CCP related organizations for decades (including the Big Guy himself) and the motivation to push back against CCP directed encroachment in the US, on both a political and an economical and economic level, will likely recede into the background. If the mood does change the CCP can always count on media bots to have its back.
Beijing won big in 2020. These are dark times for the west but for CCP power brokers the so-called annus horribilis will continue to be the gift that cannot stop giving.
Source: Death numbers. Walker Report to the US Congress (1971). May be higher according to Jung Chang and John Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story.
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