China’s ability to survive Covid-19 with low death rates has “shattered the American myth”, a controversial political scientist has argued. In an article posted on Fudan University’s China Institute website last week, Zhang Weiwei said the outbreak, and high death rates in the United States, marked the end of the popular belief it had a superior governance model and criticised those who held that view as “spiritually American”. “Chinese people, including the people of Shanghai, will never allow the ‘spiritually American’ to dominate our pandemic controls nor will they allow the model of a ‘defeated nation’ to replace our victorious…