The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is fighting a nationwide COVID-19 outbreak and has shut down at least 10 regions as of Monday—coming about two weeks after a New Year’s Eve party in Wuhan, which some experts pointed out was merely a propaganda exercise to promote the CCP as other countries grapple with the virus.
The CCP-backed Global Times newspaper proclaimed that the party in Wuhan was a sign of things to come and the West “should get used to it.” The regime effectively stopped reporting its true CCP virus figures early last year after the virus emerged in Wuhan in 2019, becoming a global pandemic. Human rights experts have said the CCP’s disregard for human life and cover-up campaign exacerbated the spread of the virus worldwide.
