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China’s Covid Success Story is Also a Human Rights Tragedy
China's Official Covid Rates Are Down
But Has That Come at the Cost of Human Rights?
I imagine January has been a relatively good month for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
- Yaqiu Wang
- MSNBC
- HRW
The Covid-19 pandemic appears to be largely under control in his country, and China’s is the only major economy in the world expected to report growth for 2020.
Meanwhile, several thousand people a day are dying from the virus in Xi’s archrival across the Pacific, the United States.
The resurgence of infections keeps sending shock waves through the U.S. economy…