China is facing an unprecedented series of simultaneous deepening crisis that not only threatens its economy, but also stokes the Chinese government's worst nightmare: social unrest. Here are the four unfolding and worsening crisis that China must handle successfully:
African Swine Flu
The first and continuing crisis began in 2017 was a pandemic amongst the pig population. As articulated in the New York Times article on 17 December 2019, entitled China Responds Slowly, and a Pig Disease Becomes an Epidemic, China had 440 million pigs, half the world's pig population. The African swine flu