Matt Rouge, China is a notoriously corrupt dictatorship, there is plenty of libertarian economic activity that happens within it, especially if someone in a position of power is making a profit,that was true all during the overtly Marxist phase of the dictatorship as, indeed, it has always been for the elites of even totalitarian regimes. The only real interest in a dictatorship is the benefit of the dictators - which is actually a class of people, not even Stalin or the Kim regimes are actually in complete control of the central character, one of the reasons they are constantly killing off people in their inner circle of gangsters.
As to presenting a "range of possibilities" those can include everything up to and including the possibility that I heard the epidemiologist Matthew Meslson present to a stunned CBC radio announcer, that someday a viral disease will arise on some poultry farm that will spread through modern means of transportation and render the human species extinct. When said stunned announcer, after about fifteen seconds of dead air asked if he really meant that, he said, yes, that was a possibility given the size and concentration of the human population and modern transportation. And there is no way to know where, how or when such a point in the "range of possibilities" will arise. That lack of specific knowledge is no excuse for ignoring lesser pandemics.
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