Coronavirus will start a revolution in China

The Chinese government's handling of coronavirus is increasingly being seen as incompetent and is failing to protect the Chinese people. The controversy primarily stems from reports that the first doctors to identify coronavirus were silenced, with the first doctor to identify it later dying of the disease.^[1] Additionally, the government's restrictions on freedom of speech mean that citizens are getting more and more frustrated with their government for purposely withholding information from them. The event has been called "China's Chernobyl" in reference to the lack of transparency from the government.^[2] It is inevitable that this will come to a head, especially considering the other political controversies the Chinese government was having even before the discovery of coronavirus. Protests in Hong Kong, a China-US trade war and controversy over the treatment of Muslims in the province of Xinjiang were all haunting the government even before coronavirus. Public opinion of the Chinese government is now fiercely negative in a way not seen since 1989.^[2] It is becoming increasingly inevitable that the public is not going to stand for the Chinese government's censorship, and coronavirus may be the straw that breaks the camels back.

[P1] Public opinion of the Chinese government has plummeted since the virus began spreading. [P2] There will come a point where the public are disillusioned enough that revolution becomes the only option.