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Beijing’s triumph?

Manchurian candidate warning

9 January 2021

9:00 AM

9 January 2021

9:00 AM

‘A year after coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China’s Xi declares 2020 a triumph.’ The Washington Post thus approvingly headlined the Communist Chinese dictator’s New Year Address to celebrating crowds ignoring social distancing in the streets of Wuhan, the very place from where Xi released a plague onto an unsuspecting world.

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