Xi Jinping's coronavirus body of lies
by Tom Rogan
| March 11, 2020 04:14 PM
As with Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward," Xi Jinping's coronavirus legacy is built on a mountain of bodies and lies.
I note this because Xi Jinping has just taken a victory tour in Wuhan, where the coronavirus first spread. Believing China has turned the corner with this pandemic, China's leader is looking for positive global recognition. He deserves global recognition of the exact opposite kind.
This crisis captured the Chinese Communist Party's most basic essence: its opacity and evil. And Chinese, Americans, Iranians, and people everywhere else are suffering for it.
Xi and his party's culpability are clear. It was their irresponsibility that allowed the coronavirus to run rampant in the first place. It was their instinct for secrecy which allowed the coronavirus to infect those who might otherwise have taken precautions. It was their insidious refusal to allow foreign scientists access to China which prohibited timely vaccine research. It is Xi's defining arrogance which saw him hide from Wuhan and now sees him dance a victory lap as doctors rot under their tombstones. Those first responders are the only heroes here. Like their Soviet forebears at Chernobyl, the Politburo wants them forgotten.
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