Are we going to live in a world ruled by China?

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It looked ominous BEFORE this damn virus surfaced but by all accounts the whole world blames China for this pandemic and they will never forget it ..

Who’s gonna buy anything made in China now

This obsession with blaming another country, one that aggressively intervened and was the first to introduce what looked like draconic measures, is merely the reaction of the governments that didn't listen when the WHO started ringing the alarm bells.

China and the World Health Organisation's failure to act when the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was still in its early stages is one of the "greatest scandals in modern human history", according to Sky News Digital editor Jack Houghton.

China’s deadly coronavirus coverup in the early days of the crisis more than doubled the number of people now infected across the world according to a recent study.

The findings were contained in a damning University of Southampton report which found if the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organisation had heeded warnings a single week earlier infection could have been reduced by 66 per cent.

If the WHO had acted just three weeks earlier nearly 95 per cent of today’s infections and deaths would not have happened.

Taiwan could have shown the world what to do, except that politics
resulted in their data from being omitted from the press releases.

A senior WHO official has raised hackles in Taiwan by appearing to dodge questions about Taiwan''s exclusion from the world health body. During an interview via video chat with a Hong Kong media outlet, Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist, remained silent for about ten seconds when asked if the WHO should reconsider Taiwan''s membership. After their video hook-up appeared to be disconnected, the interviewer called him back. This time Aylward declared that if he had contracted the coronavirus, he would want to be treated in China. When Aylward was asked about Taiwan, he stalled for close to ten seconds, and avoided a reporter’s question, but the reporter persisted. Aylward is an assistant director general at the WHO and is a Canadian-trained epidemiologist. Ever since the pandemic broke out, he has constantly sung China’s praises. Bruce Aylward (March 9)WHO Assistant Directors General I left inspired and with a deep admiration for the common Chinese people that I worked with.Bruce Aylward (February 25)WHO Assistant Directors General If I had COVID-19, I would want to be treated in China. Lin Shih-chia, the CEO of the Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance, lamented that the WHO has been deeply poisoned by Chinese influence. He said he believed that once the pandemic was over, each nation would seriously consider how to reform these kinds of international organizations that have been heavily infiltrated by China.

I suspect the global opinion of China is about to drop rather steeply,

"About to"?

You're based in England, so I guess you're British and I'm assuming you're consuming American and British news more or less exclusively.
That's two countries that failed to respond appropriately to the pandemic and are now trying to shift the blame.

I say that from my position, being trilingual, living in a German-speaking country but consuming news-media from other countries... "The whole world blames China" is simply wrong.
This obsession with blaming another country, one that aggressively intervened and was the first to introduce what looked like draconic measures, is merely the reaction of the governments that didn't listen when the WHO started ringing the alarm bells.

There are of course reasons why viruses like this would come from certain natikns and are less likely in others. Any country that still has wildlife is a potential place of origin for zoonoses. Add poverty and a tradition of hunting that wildlife, i.e., seeking contact with it, and you get a time-bomb. This one went off in China, but it could just as well have been Indonesia, Brazil, or the Congo.

But neither of them, I think, could have brought it under control so quickly and radically, showing the rest of the world what to do.