Forty years ago, a protest against authoritarian rule in South Korea became an uprising. Hundreds of thousands of protesters battled government troops in the streets. The legacy of the uprising is still contested today.
There's no "China virus". Neither China's factory farming nor its authoritarianism set it apart from the rest of the world. China is a vital component of the world capitalist system, both the rival and the collaborator of the West; and it's that system of capitalism that created and spread COVID-19.
