'Li Wenliang, the Chinese whistleblower doctor who became an online hero in China after warning the public of a potential "SARS-like" disease in December 2019, has died of coronavirus in Wuhan, according to several state media reports. CNN's David Culver reports from Beijing, China.'
- CNN,
Whistleblower doctor silenced by police dies from coronavirus, February 6, 2020
'Mr. Xu, the novelist, said Mr. Ma’s remarks demonstrated how officials had more concern for pleasing their bosses than taking care of the people they allegedly served.''As the Communist Party cements control, more officials worry about pleasing their bosses than taking care of the people.
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The Chinese people are getting a rare glimpse of how China’s giant, opaque bureaucratic system works — or, rather, how it fails to work. Too many of its officials have become political apparatchiks, fearful of making decisions that anger their superiors and too removed and haughty when dealing with the public to admit mistakes and learn from them.
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The Chinese people may be paying the price. The failures span the system.
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Local officials don’t seem to have local people at the top of their list of priorities. In an interview with state television, Ma Guoqiang, the Communist Party secretary of Wuhan, acknowledged that Wuhan residents “are a little anxious and a little nervous” and said he would mobilize all party cells to comfort them.
“But the most important comfort,” he added, “came from Party Secretary Xi Jinping.”
Mr. Xu, the novelist, said Mr. Ma’s remarks demonstrated how officials had more concern for pleasing their bosses than taking care of the people they allegedly served.
“If they can rearrange the order in their hearts," Mr. Xu said, “we’ll see a very different governance style.” '
- New York Times,
Coronavirus Crisis Shows China’s Governance Failure, February 4, 2020
'Li, a 34-year-old doctor working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, told his friends to warn their loved ones privately..''
(CNN) - On December 30, Li Wenliang dropped a bombshell in his medical school alumni group on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat: seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and quarantined in his hospital.
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Li, a 34-year-old doctor working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, told his friends to warn their loved ones privately. But within hours screenshots of his messages had gone viral -- without his name being blurred. "When I saw them circulating online, I realized that it was out of my control and I would probably be punished," Li said.
He was right.
Soon after he posted the message, Li was accused of rumor-mongering by the Wuhan police. He was one of several medics targeted by police for trying to blow the whistle on the deadly virus in the early weeks of the outbreak. The virus has since claimed at least 425 lives and sickened more than 20,000 people globally -- including Li.'
- CNN,
This Chinese doctor tried to save lives, but was silenced. Now he has coronavirus, February 4, 2020
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