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Russia Joins China’s Wuhan Virus Lie Campaign

Russia Joins China’s Wuhan Virus Lie Campaign
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images
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From the beginning of the COVID-19/Wuhan virus epidemic, China’s communist government has lied about the disease, its origin and its transmissibility. It has also avoided an accurate accounting of the contagion’s health and economic consequences within the People’s Republic, always insisting Chinese Communist Party leadership has minimized the pandemic’s effects.

Austin Bay
Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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