A random appreciation of what I think
China always learns from its history. Parallel is Opium Wars in China, when opium grown in Darjeeling under British India was flooded into China & the country systematically socially weakened to be divided into trading zones by British, Dutch, Germans, French, Russians, Japanese & US in 1830-60 period.
They have simply paid back. Analysis of Chinese holdings in terms of rights to develop, ownership of properties & balance of trade with European mainland prior to this event shows that Italy, Spain, Baltics, East European block countries are all overleveraged to China.
Now, a chimera has been released, formed due to recombination of virus from bats & pangolins, which has no correlation whatsoever. That the story was of Wuhan Food market, is an eyewash. Naturally, such a recombination is more than rare, but possible.
But no logical explanation comes to fore that explains a transmission from bats to pangolins or vice versa. However, input suggests release site to be the Wuhan Lab which is a Biosafety Level 4 research lab. A deliberate recombination is possible, as under Biological Weapons Convention, you can store weapons grade (read mutated) micro-organisms for research & "defensive study" purposes.
The Chinese hid the spread of virus, permitted foreign travel of millions of Chinese to Europe & US, and launched a #IAmNotAVirus campaign in Italy ... and effects are there to see.
Now, as European nations struggle to cope, Chinese have ramped up their industrial output.
If you follow events in Pakistan, their PM is resisting a lockdown in face of all pressure. And Chinese airlifted their labour to start work on CPEC now. Just to name one other instance. Extrapolate to Africa, middle east & south east asia.
China is now poised exactly as US was at thd end of WW2.
And within a century, they will wipe out their "century of humiliation" without firing a shot & being greeted as heroes.