ALL THE world's attention is on covid-19. Perhaps it was a coincidence that China chose this moment to tighten its control around disputed reefs in the South China Sea, arrest the most prominent democrats in Hong Kong and tear a hole in Hong Kong's Basic Law

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/04/23/autocrats-see-opportunity-in-disaster

Did you see the HR McMaster essay in the (I think) current version of the Atlantic? Looking...

This is worth a read
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/05/mcmaster-china-strategy/609088/

Some analysis here
https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/is-h-r-mcmaster-the-new-mr-x/