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Hiding Information: The CCP Held Commendation Conference about Fighting the Novel Coronavirus

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has declared victory over the novel coronavirus. On September 8, 2020, Xi Jinping hosted a Commendation Conference on Fighting against the Novel Coronavirus. At the ceremony, Xi gave a near-10,000 word speech, but he did not mention the truth about the pandemic’s origin, its development, or the infection count in China.

Radio France International reported that people were questioning why the CCP held such a celebration at this time since the pandemic is still spreading in the world. They wondered whether it is trying to cover up something or to make people forget something. Agence France-Presse pointed out that the CCP is trying to rewrite the Wuhan Pandemic story.

Xi gave medals to the “heroes” including Zhong Nanshan, who, on January 20, told the public that the virus can be transmitted from person to person (Editor’s Note: there is much evidence that the CCP knew about the person-to-person transmission much earlier but did not release the information to the public until Zhong’s staged statement), and Chen Wei, a People’s Liberation Army general in charge of developing a vaccine.

However, on the Chinese social media, the public frequently discussed Dr. Li Wenliang who Xi didn’t mention at the award ceremony. Dr. Li is the whistle blower who mentioned the coronavirus on social media in early January. The CCP then reprimanded him and he later died after developing the infection when treating patients who had the virus.

Another highly discussed person, who is a hero in the eyes of the public  but who Xi also skipped is Dr. Zhang Wenhong. Dr. Zhang is the lead doctor on coronavirus prevention efforts in Shanghai. He rejected Zhong Nanshan’s claim that the virus might have originated outside of China. He said the facts showed that Wuhan is the first city to have reported the cases and if the virus was coming from overseas, it would spread in several cities in China simultaneously, not just in Wuhan. He also answered the question whether the China-made anti-virus vaccine is better or the imported vaccine will be when the vaccines are available. He said, “You can easily tell if a domestic car is better or an imported car is (Chinese all know imported cars are much better). Why can’t you tell when it comes to a vaccine?”

On social media, people were also asking where the citizens were who went to hospitals to report the true situation (that the official media were not reporting) and then got disappeared.

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Excerpt in Chinese:

习近平9月8号在北京主持中国抗击新冠肺炎表彰大会。他以把大金链子挂在他的抗疫英雄脖颈上的姿态告诉世界,中国胜利了! 胜利得有点杀气腾腾,在长达近万字的讲话中,习近平不断提到“斗争”、“不断夺取具有新历史特点的斗争胜利”,而吹哨人李文亮的名字一次都没有提到。所有调查疫情真相的都与英雄称号无关。公民记者至今生死不明。

社交媒体谈论最多的是早已被病毒夺走生命的吹哨人李文亮,他的名字似乎已和这场华丽的庆功会无关,但是,百万人在他的微博下致意。在这个表彰英雄的时刻,许多人想起了他。

另一位网上提到很多的是上海医生张文宏,不少人为他没有上榜遗憾。比起预言家,中医大师,张文宏被视为是一位严肃的专家,自得到共和国勋章的钟南山院士放出新冠病毒不一定来源于中国的信息后,一场甩锅大战开始了。张文宏实事求是,他说武汉是中国第一个出现这种新传染病的城市,如果是从国外传播到中国,应该是几个城市同时发病,而不是陆续出现发病情况。

国产疫苗还是进口疫苗好,张文宏回答:“关于一个国产的汽车还是进口的汽车,你们都能够鉴别,为什么一到疫苗你就不能给鉴别?”

但是,习近平亲自主持的这场庆功表彰大会,以及在这次大会前几日官媒对武汉这座战胜疫情的“英雄城市”连篇累牍的宣传还是引起了不少人怀疑,总觉得官方要掩盖什么,总觉得有意识地要忘掉什么,总觉得有重大的隐情。法新社的报道就说,中国官方正在试图改写武汉疫情的叙事。

Source: Radio France International, September 14, 2020
https://www.rfi.fr/cn/中国/20200914-庆功表彰遗忘-北京还在封锁真相