As the world struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak without triggering a new Great Depression, China is withholding vital information that would save lives and significantly alleviate the economic catastrophe that now threatens to immiserate hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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Walter Russell Mead: China still misleads the world on the coronavirus
This photo taken on Feb. 28, 2020 shows a patient infected by the COVID-19 coronavirus preparing to do a CT scan at the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province.