Chinese scholar blames Xi Jinping, Communist Party for not controlling coronavirus outbreak

South China Morning Post ^ | Published: 7:30am, 6 Feb, 2020 Updated: 6:02pm, 14 Feb, 2020 | Jun Mai and Mimi Lau

[Zhang Fei]

A prominent Chinese scholar has published an article criticising the country’s leadership for failing to control the coronavirus outbreak that has infected almost 25,000 people around the world.

Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, who has been under close surveillance by the authorities, blamed Communist Party leaders for putting politics ahead of the people in his strongly worded piece, which was published on several overseas Chinese-language websites this week.

“The political system has collapsed under the tyranny, and a governance system [made up] of bureaucrats, which has taken [the party] more than 30 years to build has floundered,” he said in a reference to how reform-minded leaders sought to rebuild the country and modernise the government after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and moved away from one-man rule to collective leadership.

Xu was suspended from teaching at Tsinghua University in 2018, after the publication of an article in which he criticised the decision by party leaders to lift the two-term limit for presidents, allowing Xi Jinping to remain in office beyond his second term, which ends in 2023.

His latest criticism came as China’s leaders and law enforcement officials warned that internet controls must be tightened to prevent the spread of rumours and misinformation.

On Monday, Xi chaired a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee at which it was agreed that officials must maintain a tight grip on online media and direct public opinion about “winning the war over the virus”.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Security held a meeting to remind all police officers that political security was of utmost importance in handling the outbreak.

The police would “strike harshly” on any and all disruption by “hostile forces”, according to a report by Xinhua.

[cld51860]

Yeah, well, the good professor best get his affairs in order...

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Hey Xu, Xi Jinping didn’t corrupt the Chinese Communist Party. He was produced by it. The party produces tyrants. Once Xi Jinping goes, it will produce another one.

[EagleUSA]

Spreading the truth in communist China gets you a free swimming lesson with the fishes.....

[Gay State Conservative]

This professor has obviously grown tired of living.

[CondorFlight]

The Party leaders are like the French nobility at Versailles; they don’t respond well when there is no food in the streets, and they think they can remain safe where they are, dancing the night away...

[bigbob]

Good, pour it on. The only thing that will end the reign of Xi is economic failure, and based on his order today to get back to work to avoid that, he’s worried.

Pigs dying, corn attacked by bugs, HK in uproar, Trump giving him an extra twist...now this. All good because if you haven’t figured that China has been on track with the help of the gloabalist and elites to become our lords and masters, you haven’t been paying attention. America First means “Not China First”.

[SpaceBar]

Two more fresh kidneys just popped up on Chinslist.

[SeekAndFind]

Ok, I’ll bite. It’s very easy to blame, but it isn’t helpful in terms of lessons we must learn.

WHAT *SHOULD* the authorities have done to contain and minimize the deaths and infection rate?

Suppose something like this occurred in our part of the world, what should we do?

[hanamizu]

officials must maintain a tight grip on online media and direct public opinion about “winning the war over the virus”.

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To paraphrase HBO’s Chernobyl, “How proud Chairman Mao would be of all of you...this is our moment to shine!”

[kidd]

WHAT *SHOULD* the authorities have done to contain and minimize the deaths and infection rate?

Xi has, until recently, refused help from WHO and the United States.

Today, Xi has relaxed quarantine restrictions because the reduced factory output is hurting China's economy.

In general, Xi has focused on expanding into the South China Sea. It could be argued that more focus should have been spent on improving sanitary conditions in this part of the world, where the flu seems to originate every year.

[Ancesthntr]

An honorable guy, this professor, but unfortunately he is a dead man walking.

[SIDENET]

This situation in China will continue to deteriorate, and their economy will continue to fall apart.

I think there's a good chance that we will see their military used to kill large masses of people to try and preserve the CCP's grip on power.

[Starcitizen]

Dead man walking

[frank ballenger]

The late professor in his last article before falling prey to a mysterious food poisoning case....

[DoughtyOne]

An Excel File for the JHU Coronavirus (COVID-19) Data

LINK

This new version provides a tool to study the "outside China"
numbers without the cruise ship numbers for reference.

Just enter the number of the row you wish to evaluate.

Located in the middle at the top.

[null and void]

Hillary Clinton, call from Xi Jinping on the red courtesy phone
Hillary Clinton, call from Xi Jinping on the red courtesy phone

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[PIF]

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Security held a meeting to remind all police officers that political security was of utmost importance in handling the outbreak.

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and that’s the reason the images scenes stories and the official numbers are at such odds

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, who has been under close surveillance by the authorities, blamed Communist Party leaders

Dude is probably dead

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Precisely. Something bad is going to happen to him. Those are very brave people who speak out against the communists. They are more ruthless, even, than the Clintons.