by Peter Westmore
The rapid spread of the new coronavirus Covid19 throughout China is already having a dramatic, negative effect on China’s economy, with impacts already seen in the West, and, in China, rising hostility over the Chinese Communist Party’s failure to stop the outbreak.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has consistently claimed that the outbreak is “under control” and there is no cause for alarm. It repeatedly reports a decline in the number of confirmed cases, an…