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How the United States Government Failed to Prepare for the Global Pandemic
On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a...
One section of the cable is called “NSC Top Lines: PRC [People’s Republic of China] Propaganda and Disinformation on the Wuhan Virus Pandemic.”
- Vijay Prashad
- CounterPunch
The cable says, “Chinese Communist Party officials in Wuhan and Beijing had a special responsibility to inform the Chinese people and the world of the…
Instead, U.S. officials were instructed by the cable to contend, the Chinese government “hid news of the virus from its…