'Now the spin doctors and censors will try to find a way to convince 1.4 billion people that Dr Li's death is not a clear example of the limits to the party's ability to manage an emergency - when openness can save lives, and restricting it can kill.''The death of Dr Li Wenliang has been a heart-breaking moment for this country. For the Chinese leadership it is an epic political disaster.
It lays bare the worst aspects of China's command and control system of governance under Xi Jinping - and the Communist Party would have to be blind not to see it.
If your response to a dangerous health emergency is for the police to harass a doctor trying to blow the whistle, then your structure is obviously broken.
The city's mayor - reaching for excuses - said he needed clearance to release critical information which all Chinese people were entitled to receive.
Now the spin doctors and censors will try to find a way to convince 1.4 billion people that Dr Li's death is not a clear example of the limits to the party's ability to manage an emergency - when openness can save lives, and restricting it can kill.
Chinese people are going to take some convincing.
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Global Times said he was in a critical condition.
Journalists and doctors at the scene, who do not want their names used, told the BBC and other media that government officials had intervened.
Official media outlets had been told to change their reports to say the doctor was still being treated.'
- BBC,
Li Wenliang: Coronavirus kills Chinese whistleblower doctor, February 7, 2020
Context(CNN) - Whistleblower doctor (34) silenced by police dies from coronavirus - Coronavirus Crisis Shows China’s Governance Failure, [pleasing Xi Jinping]'..Xi delivered a series of secret speeches setting the hard-line course that culminated in the security offensive now underway in Xinjiang..''Far too many American multinational corporations have kowtowed to the lure of China’s money and markets by muzzling not only criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, but even affirmative expressions of American values.' - Pence“The industrial age, hierarchical
command-and-control institutions that dominate our commercial, political and social lives are
increasingly irrelevant in today’s exploding diversity and complexity. Behind their endless promise of a peaceful, constructive societal order, which they never deliver, they are increasingly unable to manage even their own affairs, while society commerce and the biosphere slide increasingly into disarray. We are experiencing a global epidemic of institutional failure. We must question the concepts underlying the current
structures of organization.” - Dee Hock
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