I guess the Chinese think they have it all under control now
I think they are playing with fire.
The Japanese have been playing with fire for weeks, with half-measures and voluntary stay-at-home on weekends-only suggestions. Suggestions, not rules. Maybe they should issue a suggestion addressed to the virus. Finally, yesterday, the Prime Minister issued some kind of declaration of emergency. I don't know the details, but I hope it means they will be closing the live-music clubs and bars that young people have been crowding into. Tokyo, in particular, is getting out of hand. One-tenth of the population lives there, so if they lose that battle, they lose the war.
Most of the politicians there are gutless wonders, unwilling to take responsibility for unpopular acts. The public even now does not seen to realize what is at stake. I will say for the politicians, they have not downplayed the dangers, the way many American politicians did. But P.M. Abe kept saying "it is isn't time for a lockdown yet." By the time you think it is time, it is too late!