At the time when Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protest movement was entering the transition stage from 2019 to 2020, an earth-shattering event erupted in Mainland China that was soon going to have a far-reaching impact not only on Mainland China, but also on Hong Kong and the rest of the world: the outbreak of a novel coronavirus pneumonia at a macabre plague level in the city of Wuhan in China’s Hubei province which rapidly turned into a global pandemic that infected close to a hundred million people by the end of 2020 – with the number of cases of human infection expected to reach frightening heights in the vicinity of hundreds of millions soon – and has already killed millions across the globe. This paper aims to investigate how the seven-decade iron-fist rule of the Chinese Communist Party has come under these two consecutive severe tests from 2019 to 2020 that have served to reveal the nature and global implications of the CCP’s mode of governance in general and the current Xi Jinping administration in particular.