Other countries, South Korea and Taiwan, for example, have followed similar courses, and they have also reported steep declines in new infections, though neither says it has achieved no new local infections, as China claims.
Still, skepticism about China's no-new-local-infections claim is widespread, including, at least according to the anecdotal evidence, inside China.
On the very days when the national health authority was announcing that there were no new local infections, social media accounts in China were circulating photographs of "Urgent notices" put up in residential areas announcing new cases and warning people to stay home.
EBC News, a Taiwan cable news network, broadcast two such photographs dated March 20, which is two days after China reported there were no new local Wuhan infections.
"From the flood rescue effort in 1998 to the SARS epidemic in 2003 and the earthquake relief work in 2008," the People's Daily, the party's official organ, said early in March, as China began reporting a drop in new coronavirus infections, "These great struggles one after the other have taught us that the Chinese Communist Party is the backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation."
In recent days, the Chinese media have gone beyond praise of the country's leaders to depicting a world grateful to China for its leadership in the fight against the disease.
China "Is in the midst of its most intensive propaganda operation in living memory, in trying to project its success in dealing with the virus," Peter Tsang, the director of the China Institute at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies, told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/03/25/doing_a_double-take_on_chinas_no-new-infection_claim_122944.html
Still, skepticism about China's no-new-local-infections claim is widespread, including, at least according to the anecdotal evidence, inside China.
On the very days when the national health authority was announcing that there were no new local infections, social media accounts in China were circulating photographs of "Urgent notices" put up in residential areas announcing new cases and warning people to stay home.
EBC News, a Taiwan cable news network, broadcast two such photographs dated March 20, which is two days after China reported there were no new local Wuhan infections.
"From the flood rescue effort in 1998 to the SARS epidemic in 2003 and the earthquake relief work in 2008," the People's Daily, the party's official organ, said early in March, as China began reporting a drop in new coronavirus infections, "These great struggles one after the other have taught us that the Chinese Communist Party is the backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation."
In recent days, the Chinese media have gone beyond praise of the country's leaders to depicting a world grateful to China for its leadership in the fight against the disease.
China "Is in the midst of its most intensive propaganda operation in living memory, in trying to project its success in dealing with the virus," Peter Tsang, the director of the China Institute at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies, told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/03/25/doing_a_double-take_on_chinas_no-new-infection_claim_122944.html
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