Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus outbreak, Infectious diseases, Sars, Science, World news, Xi Jinping
Help or hindrance? How Chinese politics affected coronavirus response
Authoritarian bureaucracy has allowed dramatic response but also let virus fester
When Wuhan’s mayor took to live national television to discuss the rapidly escalating outbreak of coronavirus in his city, he came primed for a rare – and very prolonged – display of self criticism.
Over nearly an hour Zhou Xianwang said his work “wasn’t performed well enough”, that the city government had failed to provide timely information or act on what it knew, and offered his own resignation, although it is yet to be accepted.
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