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China, Cuba, and COVID-19: How communists prioritized power, silencing whistleblowers like Dr. Li Wenliang, and plunged the world into a pandemic https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/china-cuba-and-covid-19-how-communists.html 1/ https://twitter.com/johnjsuarez/status/1358218008246820866
Today remembering Dr. Li Wenliang, the hero who warned about the initial COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. He was grabbed by secret police in the middle of the night and threatened with prosecution for making "untrue statements." https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/china-cuba-and-covid-19-how-communists.html 2/
He died a year ago today on February 7, 2020. The police state had silenced him and COVID-19 took his life, but the whistleblower is not forgotten despite the efforts of Beijing to erase him. https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/china-cuba-and-covid-19-how-communists.html 3/
On March 15, 2020 this blog warned about the ability of Communist regimes, such as the ones operating in China and Cuba, to engage in the: https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/china-cuba-and-covid-19-how-communists.html 4/
"denial of objective reality, truth & an ability to systematically lie to achieve is sometimes effective in taking over a country & imposing a totalitarian dictatorship, but is a total disaster when dealing with infectious diseases, & an outbreak such as the coronavirus." 5/
Others in China, who questioned the Chinese Communist dictatorship's response to COVID-19 went missing this past March 2020. A high profile case was the Chinese tycoon Ren Zhiqiang "wrote in a scathing essay that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, was a power-hungry 'clown.' 6/
He said the ruling Communist Party’s strict limits on free speech had exacerbated the coronavirus epidemic," reported Javier C. Hernández in The New York Times on March 14, 2020. https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/china-cuba-and-covid-19-how-communists.html 7/
Mr. Zhiqiang went missing at the time, and reappeared in September 2020 when he was found "guilty of corruption, bribery and embezzlement of public funds" in a Beijing court fined $620,000 and sentenced to 18 years in prison. https://cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/china-cuba-and-covid-19-how-communists.html 8/
