What do the pandemic outbreaks of avian flu in the 1990s, Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 and now coronavirus all have in common?
They originated in the People’s Republic of China.
The communist Chinese leadership sees itself as an emerging superpower economically, geopolitically and militarily. President Xi Jinping has fiddled the Chinese constitution to make himself de facto emperor for life, with supreme authority over his party, his government and all the Chinese people.
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