While China has responded faster to the coronavirus epidemic than its SARS outbreak in 2002-03, the CPC has overlooked the inherent failure in its system as the authorities have continued to silence and punish those who deviate from official orthodoxy and reality.
Even with the lessons of the SARS disaster, demonstrating the need for greater openness and responsibility, China has committed the same mistakes while expecting a different outcome.
By January 29, the number of cases of the coronavirus had already risen to 7,700 cases worldwide and 170 deaths in China.
With the cover-up having now failed, China is slowly and begrudgingly admitting to the inadequacies of its critical response.
The advance team from the WHO has only able to enter China as recently as February 10, and it is still unclear when the full WHO mission will deploy, or the latitude they will have to investigate the origins of this infection.
According to the Washington Post, even as the virus was spreading through Wuhan in January, the WHO's Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was praising the "Transparency" of the Chinese response, and giving the general impression that "China has got this."
Patrick Mendis is a former visiting professor of economic diplomacy at Wuhan University, is a Taiwan fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China and a distinguished visiting professor of global affairs at the National Chengchi University in Taipei.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/made-china-coronavirus-chaos-could-have-been-avoided-130422
Even with the lessons of the SARS disaster, demonstrating the need for greater openness and responsibility, China has committed the same mistakes while expecting a different outcome.
By January 29, the number of cases of the coronavirus had already risen to 7,700 cases worldwide and 170 deaths in China.
With the cover-up having now failed, China is slowly and begrudgingly admitting to the inadequacies of its critical response.
The advance team from the WHO has only able to enter China as recently as February 10, and it is still unclear when the full WHO mission will deploy, or the latitude they will have to investigate the origins of this infection.
According to the Washington Post, even as the virus was spreading through Wuhan in January, the WHO's Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was praising the "Transparency" of the Chinese response, and giving the general impression that "China has got this."
Patrick Mendis is a former visiting professor of economic diplomacy at Wuhan University, is a Taiwan fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China and a distinguished visiting professor of global affairs at the National Chengchi University in Taipei.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/made-china-coronavirus-chaos-could-have-been-avoided-130422
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