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Public Opinion: People Unsatisfied That Government Gave Dr. Li Wenliang an “Advanced Individual” Title

After Dr. Li Wenliang, one of the eight people (all physicians in Wuhan) who warned the public about the novel coronavirus, passed away on February 6, 2020, the public was in deep mourning. Beijing sent a group to Wuhan to investigate his case.

On March 5, the National Health Commission awarded him, posthumously, along with over 500 other people, the title of “Advanced Individual for Epidemic Prevention and Control.”

However, since it has been a month, people are questioning why the authorities have not completed and published their investigation showing the result of Dr. Li’s case. After Dr. Li informed others about the SARS-like pneumonia, Dr. Li was mistreated and received warnings from both his hospital and the Public Security Bureau .

People are waiting for the government’s official apology to Dr. Li. However, a dissident pointed out that the government would never do that as, “The Public Security organ is the core of (the regime’s) stability maintenance. If people pushed for accountability, they would never apologize but would just brush it off. … It was the (government’s) ineffective control that caused this disaster. How could it blame itself?”

Wang Guangfa, a doctor from the No 1 Hospital of Beijing University who also died after the Coronavirus infection, was one of the awardees. Wang, a member of the first National Health Commission’s expert group sent to Wuhan in early January, told the public that the virus was “controllable” and “could not be transmitted from person to person.” [Editor’s Note: There were reports that, by then, person-to-person infections had become known and were reported to the National Health Commission, so Wang might have made that statement out of the Communist Party’s need for “stability maintenance.”]

People are saying that Wang owes a lot to the Wuhan people, including those thousands of souls that have left this world.

Hiding Information: Residents Shouted “Fake” When Sun Chunlan Visited a Residential Neighborhood

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China, it has been rare to see high-rank officials visiting people. Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier and the head the Central Government’s Supervisory Group to Hubei Province, visited a residential neighborhood on March 5, but she was greeted with the residents’ shouts of “Fake.”

According to a video that a local resident provided, when Sun and other officials entered the gate, the apartment residents, who had been forced to stay at home for several weeks, shouted things such as, “Fake, Fake, Everything is Fake.” “The vegetables that the public can buy are too expensive!” “Formalism!”

In the discussion at a WeChat group of the residents, one person concluded, “When Vice Premier Sun Chunlan and Wuhan Municipal Party Secretary Wang Zhonglin came to our building, the property management office didn’t allow us to go downstairs (to meet them). They arranged fake volunteers to deliver vegetables and meat to us.” (Editor’s Note: In Wuhan, people are forced to stay in their apartments and not allowed to go out. The government arranges for people to deliver food to them.)

Another posting said, “The Vice Premier and Wuhan municipal leaders left in the middle of their visit (to our community).”

The official media reported that, afterwards Sun scolded the local officials saying, “Do not hide the problems.” Global Times admitted that online postings regarding the visit were basically true. The Wuhan government then sent people to go to each apartment to gather the resident’s feedback.

People have been commenting, “This is a different kind of human rights appeal under the epidemic.” “We told the emperor to his face that he wasn’t wearing new clothes.” “So glad to shout out the truth!”

Xinhua: US Owes China an Apology and the World Owes China a Thank You

On March 4, Xinhua, the official state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China, {which is, therefore the voice of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)} published a commentary stating that the U.S. should apologize to China and the world should thank China.

The article said that, as the novel coronavirus epidemic continues developing in the U.S., President Trump has changed his position to praise China. In a press conference, when asked whether the U.S. government would adopt some measures similar to those that China did, if the U.S. epidemic gets worse, Trump responded that he would adopt some Of China’s measures. He stated that China has achieved substantial progress.

The article said that it was obvious that Trump made these statements from his heart. While China’s coronavirus containment has made considerable progress, the U.S. is facing an outbreak.

People should know, when Wuhan had the coronavirus outbreak, the Trump administration was the first to announce that it would remove its citizens from Wuhan, which led many other countries to follow, putting China at an awkward position.

Not only that, the U.S. also restricted Chinese and people from other countries that entered China from coming to the U.S. This led the world to isolate China, which had a great impact on China’s economy.

Now, if China takes revenge on the U.S., besides restricting Americans from coming to China, China can also impose strategic control over remedial products and prohibit their sale to the U.S. That would place the U.S. in big trouble. Most of the face masks and medicines in the U.S. are manufactured in China.

Also, Dr. Zhong Nanshan said that though the novel coronavirus broke out in China, its origin may not have been in China. Therefore, China has no reason to apologize (to the world).

“Now we can righteously demand, the U.S. owes China an apology and the world owes China a thank you!” Continue reading →

Hot Topics | | March 6, 2020 | Social Stability

Leadership: Conflicting Messages Between National Health Commission and Hubei Province

On March 2, the spokesperson of the National Health Commission said at a press conference, “The rapid escalation of the Wuhan epidemic is under control. In addition to Wuhan, the regional outbreak in other places in Hubei Province is also under control.”

On March 3, the Hubei Provincial government held a press conference on the status of the control of the province’s epidemic. Yang Yunyan, the Deputy Hubei Governor, said, “The situation of the epidemic in Hubei is still very severe. In the whole province, over 20,000 patients are still in the hospital and 6,000 patients are in a severe or critical condition. The risk of a large infection is still not under fundamental control.”

[Editor’s Note: Another political controversy was that, on February 28, Ma Xiaowei, Director of National Health Commission, praised Wuhan Mayor Zhou Xianwang despite the fact that Zhou had openly challenged the Chinese Communist Party Central Leadership by stating that, until January 20, he was not “authorized” to release information to the pubic and take action. Zhou also claimed that he made the decision to lock down Wuhan, while Xi Jinping was also said to be the person who made that decision. (See Chinascope posting: Leadership: A Political Controversy: Head of National Health Commission Praised Wuhan Mayor)

Ying Yong, Xi’s loyalist and the newly appointed Hubei Provincial Party Secretary, is in charge of Hubei’s epidemic control.]

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