Complex Event Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • From implicitly seeking a political quid pro quo for supplying other countries with protective medical gear, to rejecting calls for an independent international inquiry into the virus's origins until a majority of countries backed such a probe, the bullying tactics of President Xi Jinping's government have damaged and isolated China's communist regime.
    The backlash could take the form of Western sanctions as Xi's regime seeks to overturn Hong Kong's "one country, two systems" framework with its proposed new national-security laws for the territory, which has been wracked by widespread pro-democracy protests for over a year
  • In fact, some Chinese commentators denounced calls for an inquiry as racist.
    But once a resolution calling for an "impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation" of the global response to COVID-19 gained the support of more than 100 countries in the World Health Organization's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, Xi sought to save face by telling the assembly that "China supports the idea of a comprehensive review." At the last minute, China co-sponsored the resolution, which was approved without objection.
    The resolution, however, leaves it up to the WHO's controversial director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to launch the review "at the earliest appropriate moment." Tedros, who has been accused of aiding China's initial COVID-19 cover-up, may decide to wait until the pandemic has come "under control," as Xi has proposed.
    Make no mistake: the world will not be the same after this wartime-like crisis
  • China's diplomatic and information offensive to obscure facts and deflect criticism of its COVID-19 response may be only the latest example of its brazen use of censure and coercion to browbeat other countries. But it represents a watershed moment.
    In the past, China's reliance on persuasion secured its admission to international institutions like the World Trade Organization and helped to power its economic rise
  • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

  • (china, countries)
  • (china, probe)
  • (china, covid-19)
  • (china, medical)
  • (china, wracked)
  • (china, world_health_organization)
  • (china, world_health_assembly)
  • (china, wartime-like)
  • (china, virus)
  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (china, countries)
  • (china, world_trade_organization)
  • (china, watershed)
  • Complex Event Time Series Summary - REPORT


    Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report76.19 0.00 23.81

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (china,countries)100.00
    (2) (china,probe)52.78
    (3) (china,covid-19)38.89
    (4) (china,medical)22.22
    (5) (china,wracked)19.44
    (6) (china,world_trade_organization)16.67
    (7) (china,world_health_organization)13.89
    (8) (china,world_health_assembly)11.11
    (9) (china,watershed)8.33
    (10) (china,wartime-like)5.56
    (11) (china,virus)2.78

    Complex Event Analysis - REPORT

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    Supporting narratives:

    • challenge (Read more)
      • In fact, some Chinese commentators denounced calls for an inquiry as racist.
        But once a resolution calling for an "impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation" of the global response to COVID-19 gained the support of more than 100 countries in the World Health Organization's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, Xi sought to save face by telling the assembly that "China supports the idea of a comprehensive review." At the last minute, China co-sponsored the resolution, which was approved without objection.
        The resolution, however, leaves it up to the WHO's controversial director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to launch the review "at the earliest appropriate moment." Tedros, who has been accused of aiding China's initial COVID-19 cover-up, may decide to wait until the pandemic has come "under control," as Xi has proposed.
        Make no mistake: the world will not be the same after this wartime-like crisis
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (china,countries)
        • (china,covid-19)
        • (china,world_health_organization)
        • (china,world_health_assembly)

    • challenge (Read more)
      • From implicitly seeking a political quid pro quo for supplying other countries with protective medical gear, to rejecting calls for an independent international inquiry into the virus's origins until a majority of countries backed such a probe, the bullying tactics of President Xi Jinping's government have damaged and isolated China's communist regime.
        The backlash could take the form of Western sanctions as Xi's regime seeks to overturn Hong Kong's "one country, two systems" framework with its proposed new national-security laws for the territory, which has been wracked by widespread pro-democracy protests for over a year
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (china,countries)
        • (china,medical)
        • (china,probe)
        • (china,virus)

    • challenge (Read more)
      • Through trade actions, the Chinese government has effectively cut off imports of Australian barley and blocked more than one-third of Australia's regular beef exports to China.
        Whereas Japan readily allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency to conduct a full investigation into the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster - a probe that helped the country to improve safety governance - China strongly opposed any coronavirus inquiry, as if it had something to hide
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (china,probe)

    • challenge (Read more)
      • From implicitly seeking a political quid pro quo for supplying other countries with protective medical gear, to rejecting calls for an independent international inquiry into the virus's origins until a majority of countries backed such a probe, the bullying tactics of President Xi Jinping's government have damaged and isolated China's communist regime.
        The backlash could take the form of Western sanctions as Xi's regime seeks to overturn Hong Kong's "one country, two systems" framework with its proposed new national-security laws for the territory, which has been wracked by widespread pro-democracy protests for over a year.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (china,wracked)

    • challenge (Read more)
      • In fact, some Chinese commentators denounced calls for an inquiry as racist.
        But once a resolution calling for an "impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation" of the global response to COVID-19 gained the support of more than 100 countries in the World Health Organization's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, Xi sought to save face by telling the assembly that "China supports the idea of a comprehensive review." At the last minute, China co-sponsored the resolution, which was approved without objection.
        The resolution, however, leaves it up to the WHO's controversial director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to launch the review "at the earliest appropriate moment." Tedros, who has been accused of aiding China's initial COVID-19 cover-up, may decide to wait until the pandemic has come "under control," as Xi has proposed.
        Make no mistake: the world will not be the same after this wartime-like crisis.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (china,wartime-like)

    • WIP (Read more)
      • China's diplomatic and information offensive to obscure facts and deflect criticism of its COVID-19 response may be only the latest example of its brazen use of censure and coercion to browbeat other countries. But it represents a watershed moment.
        In the past, China's reliance on persuasion secured its admission to international institutions like the World Trade Organization and helped to power its economic rise
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (china,countries)
        • (china,watershed)

    • WIP (Read more)
      • But it represents a watershed moment.
        In the past, China's reliance on persuasion secured its admission to international institutions like the World Trade Organization and helped to power its economic rise.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (china,world_trade_organization)

    Target rule match count: 11.0 Challenge: 0.38 Momentum: 0.00 WIP: 0.12