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It sounds bizarre, but the authoritarian regime that's killed millions of
its own people over the years doesn't really care if people die from an epidemic unless it’s a bigger threat to its own rule. The CCP spent the
first
crucial weeks of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak trying to cover it up, which meant more people got sick and that's bad because it makes the Party look
bad: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/01/early-missteps-state-secrecy-china-likely-allowed-coronavirus-spread-farther-faster/

The MSM calls it "China's governance failure": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/business/china-coronavirus-government.html

Even more humiliating, Chinese people are actually PRAISING Japan's response
to the virus and the help they've given China, and that's impressive considering the decades of hate-Japan propaganda the CCP has been dishing
out: https://qz.com/1796494/china-internet-users-praise-japan-for-coronavirus-response/

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