Scoring China’s coronavirus response

Chinese doctors will do their duty, as always, but it would be nice if China had its political act a bit more together before then.

President Xi Jinping, pictured in 2015, finally spoke about the coronavirus on Jan. 25, saying that China faces a ‘grave situation,’ and now the system is racing to do what should have been done two weeks ago. Photograph courtesy of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 29, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is that it can respond very fast. The bad thing is that it won’t respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says that it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won’t risk their positions by passing ...

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