China has used Western struggles with the coronavirus pandemic to help avoid domestic political backlash against Beijing, according to the security official tasked with maintaining regime stability.

“During the pandemic, we seized important achievements in a short time and have posed a great contrast between ‘China’s orderliness’ and ‘the West’s chaos,’” Politburo member Guo Shengkun wrote in a new book of articles published by the Chinese Communist Party.

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