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waitingmanChina's Chernobyl??
If the recent docudrama about Chernobyl illustrated anything, it was how an authoritarian regime that rules by fear - especially the fear of failure & the repercussions & consequences of it - can be the instrument of its own downfall. Mikhail Gorbachev said that the Chernobyl incident was the catalyst for the Soviet Union's demise. The reactor staff were all so afraid of their relevant superiors, that the denial of anything having gone wrong went right from the bottom to the top of the command chain... until it was too late to either do anything about it, or hide it any longer
It seems that same culture of fear of failure is well-entrenched in China. Doctors & others who spoke out & warned about the new Coronavirus, were arrested & silenced, lest they cause trouble for officials... & now hundreds of people are dead, thousands are infected & the virus is on a world tour
Someone needs to sit President Xi down in front of a television & make him watch the Chernobyl series...
If the recent docudrama about Chernobyl illustrated anything, it was how an authoritarian regime that rules by fear - especially the fear of failure & the repercussions & consequences of it - can be the instrument of its own downfall. Mikhail Gorbachev said that the Chernobyl incident was the catalyst for the Soviet Union's demise. The reactor staff were all so afraid of their relevant superiors, that the denial of anything having gone wrong went right from the bottom to the top of the command chain... until it was too late to either do anything about it, or hide it any longer
It seems that same culture of fear of failure is well-entrenched in China. Doctors & others who spoke out & warned about the new Coronavirus, were arrested & silenced, lest they cause trouble for officials... & now hundreds of people are dead, thousands are infected & the virus is on a world tour
Someone needs to sit President Xi down in front of a television & make him watch the Chernobyl series...
