While i would consider the US mainstream media to be a lost cause not even worth getting mad over silence form Japan is kinda strange.
My guess is that Japan and Korea's silence is because of deliberate Chinese censorship and also because their own governments are likely still making civil defense and emergency preparation plans and don't want to incite a mass panic before the plans are fully codified and laid out.
The question I'm wondering is how it will affect the United States, since I live there. This will fuck over our manufacturing badly, especially certain essential goods like pharmaceuticals.
While we have been doing some measures to move out of China thanks to the trade wars, there is still too much essential manufacturing tied up in Southern China and honestly, it will be a true miracle if the Three Gorges Dam makes it to the end of August without collapsing. I don't even think it will last the summer, let alone the remainder of 2020.
This will have a catastrophic knockdown effect on our economy and on key essential goods and services, but unlike COVID-19, it's a bit trickier to politicize. Aside from generic climate sperging and anti-capitalist sperging, there's no real way to blame this on Trump specifically since this is in China and it isn't a viral pandemic like COVID-19 was, and this will cause genuine hardship for most Americans.
Trump could turn this around and tweet about how much previous administrations and the big corporations put all their eggs in one basket but it still can't change the fact that people will be in severe hardship and will also be pissed.
I don't want to get all blackpill doomer, but the Three Gorges Dam giving out is an actual black swan game changer that would be a "new normal" even without the Woke Left or other political ideologues.
Best case scenario, China does a cold shutdown of their reactors to save face before it's too late and the CCP may give a vague statement of how the blackouts are because of "routine maintenance" and when the dam goes burst in full, the Chinese economy will be terminated but we won't have a hopelessly irradiated Pacific ocean.
There will be massive shortages and the United States might fare slightly better than most of the West thanks to the trade war moving some manufacturing to India and Vietnam, and the stock market will bottom out yet again. If Trump is smart, he'll pull for another gibs program and get the hurting corporate lobbyists to take the hint and convince them lean on the Dems to pass this bill through with as little hassle as possible.
If we get four more years of Trump, the Woke Left is terminated because the majority of the American people will have actual problems to deal with and the corporate elites who dumped all this capital into BLM and Antifa will be severely hurting for cash and the Chinese market is no longer there to save them from "Get Woke, Go Broke" or even just general incompetence.
Expect a cultural shift forced by economics either way, and expect at least a few of these major companies to likely do what Red Bull is doing right now and purge as many of the diversity hires and expendable SJW's as possible, and forcing the SJW workers with any actual skills or value to keep their mouths shut and check their politics at the door.
If Trump ekes out a win (especially if Biden loses the popular vote too) then the DNC and the big corporate elites will look for a scapegoat and they will blame the Woke Left and groups like BLM, Antifa, and the DSA. They'll use their previous disdain of Bernie Sanders to help out with the big narrative shift and try to memory hole as much of their previous support to save face and hope to recover economically.
Everyone will be hurting and suffering to varying degrees even in the best case scenario where China gets it shit together long enough to prevent literal nuclear disaster and the DNC and their CCP-backed corporate overlords lose the 2020 Election. The early 2020's will be rough either way though.
Europe and the rest of the world will be fucked even harder than we are in a best-case scenario although the United States and India can be primed to make a stronger recovery in the long run if they play their cards right and the absolute worst-case scenario does not happen.
