Žižek on China and COVID-19: Wuhan, authoritarian capitalism, and empathetic socialism in NZ

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Notes

1 The WHOS provides a timeline at https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/27-04-2020-who-timeline—covid-19?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpNr4BRDYARIsAADIx9yAJrXBkre46WjKwB62ATYLPNx-YQvCWot9LPSIX8eSTR1zRSAwBNgaAuLPEALw_wcB

2 https://covid19.govt.nz/?gclid=CjwKCAjwr7X4BRA4EiwAUXjbt8lu0xCF_QT7XEJcJPQbzvBAxS_kz0SYxL56R0pOu-RX5oDG1qDKXRoCPmwQAvD_BwE

3 https://treasury.govt.nz/publications/wellbeing-budget/wellbeing-budget-2019

4 https://www.labour.org.nz/history

5 https://www.newzealandnow.govt.nz/living-in-nz/history-government/the-treaty-of-waitangi

6 Slavoj Zizek — China and the Future of Marxism & Democracy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVsLGiXGQn0; China is a political tragedy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v = hswrSsggyNA.

7 Slavoj Zizek: Capitalism with Asian values, https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2011/10/2011102813360731764.html

8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek_bibliography

9 https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-slavoj-zizek-s-brutal-dark-formula-to-save-the-world-1.8898051

10 https://www.gcsb.govt.nz/about-us/ukusa-allies/

11 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53403793#:∼:text=The%20UK's%20mobile%20providers%20are,from%20their%20networks%20by%202027.&text=It%20follows%20sanctions%20imposed%20by,security%20threat%20%2D%20something%20Huawei%20denies.

12 https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3007373/why-modern-china-most-misunderstood

13 https://www.forbes.com/sites/helenwang/2016/01/19/chinas-middle-class-has-become-a-major-pillar-of-its-economy/#72cd45123d4c ; https://chinapower.csis.org/china-middle-class/