China: "Empire of opacity"

2021-05-03T20:56:08.296Z

The editorial of Le Figaro, by Patrick Saint-Paul. Barricaded behind its great quarantine wall, China prides itself on having triumphed over Covid-19. The country lives almost "normally" and its economy displays an insolent health, while the rest of the world, confronted with a third wave, continues to struggle in a mad race in the face of the variants of the virus with a lot of confinements and campaigns of vaccination. But, a year and a half aft

Barricaded behind its great quarantine wall, China prides itself on having triumphed over Covid-19.

The country lives almost "normally" and its economy displays an insolent health, while the rest of the world, confronted with a third wave, continues to struggle in a mad race in the face of the variants of the virus with a lot of confinements and campaigns of vaccination.

But, a year and a half after identifying Sars-CoV-2, researchers have still not determined its origin, a step that is essential to avoid a new pandemic.

And for good reason: the People's Republic, where the epidemic started, is doing everything to prevent it.

Nothing surprising!

The control of information and the rewriting of history are written in the genes of this empire of opacity that is the Chinese authoritarian regime.

Served by the fact that it was defended by the Trump administration, the hypothesis of a laboratory accident was ruled out by the WHO, which deemed it

"highly improbable"

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Source: lefigaro

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