Behind all the bluster and denial, China is actually doing the right thing

Folklore, superstitions, and old wives’ tales abound in every culture, but beliefs about the power of jinbu are unique to China, and explain why eating specific wild animals plays a major role in traditional Chinese medicine.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been glowingly portrayed as a hero in the fight against the coronavirus, despite the fact that the Communist Party's hierarchical structure hobbled public acknowledgement that there was a dangerous virus active in Wuhan for several crucial weeks. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 9, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has run afoul of the language police. Last Thursday, he publicly called the coronavirus that has already killed 0.000013 per cent of the world’s population the Wuhan virus. When challenged about this criminal violat...

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