• What did China’s Xi Jinping know, and when did he know it ? | TheHill
    https://thehill.com/opinion/international/490258-what-did-chinas-xi-jinping-know-and-when-did-he-know-it

    Even as other countries reported COVID-19 cases, China and the WHO continued to mislead the world by minimizing the threat. The WHO required that the virus be called COVID-19, rather than a term that would associate it with China, and refused access to international experts including the CDC. Xi called many state leaders, including President Trump, to advance a benign narrative of what was a dire situation. 

    As a consequence, the world was duped into lowering its guard. Xi portrayed himself as a competent ruler who had matters under control. According to the CCP narrative, his personal direction of the anti-pandemic campaign rescued China from catastrophe and heroically bought time for the rest of the world to fight the pandemic.

    => Ce que j’aimerais lire c’est une enquête sur ce qu’on savait avant (et à quelles dates). Il ne manque pas de rapports, de prévisions etc., mais ce serait bien d’en avoir une vue un peu globale.

    #in_retrospect