Taking credit, avoiding blame? Xi Jinping’s absence from coronavirus frontline
The Chinese leader’s unusual decision to command from a distance during the national crisis has aroused suspicion
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has been noticeably absent from public view as his government scrambles to fight the coronavirus outbreak that claimed more than 400 lives and infected more than 20,000 people.
His most recent public appearance was on 28 January when he met the director general of the World Health Organization in Beijing and said he was “personally commanding” the response to the outbreak.
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