Author(s)

Lanzeng Sun

Corresponding Author

Lanzeng Sun

ABSTRACT

China’s unitary state political system with more than two thousand years of tradition for fighting pandemics like COVID-19 was designed and equipped with the mechanism to mobilize the country in face of a crisis. Its performance is exceptional, partly because the state was conceived in poverty and “backward” technology. It had to rely on innovations and mass mobilizations to deal with the problems of the country in order to survive. In a way, what other countries considered “unacceptable” policies and practices helped China at a time of crisis. What China did could not be duplicated in the U.S. and other places. On the other hand, individual freedom and constitutional division of power, the inherent checks and balances built in the U.S. constitution, which American people value so much in the normal times, limited U.S. government’s ability to fight the pandemic in an all-out manner.f 18-point and after of 60-point.

KEYWORDS

COVID-19, medical care, wealth redistribution, health insurance, mass campaign