"The argument about the culpability of China’s autocratic regime gained additional strength with the revelation that eight Chinese doctors who acted as whistleblowers about the virus were summarily discredited by the Chinese government as rumour-mongers. One of the eight doctors, [[Li Wenliang]], unfortunately succumbed to the disease soon after Beijing’s effort to discredit him and his colleagues. The sequence of events makes plain that the Chinese regime is primarily responsible for hiding the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan and delaying publicizing it and, consequently, for the great havoc it has caused in the world. No amount of [[whataboutism|whataboutery]] can hide this fact."<ref>https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/is-china-culpable-for-the-spread-of-coronavirus/</ref> China deliberately infected the world. | "The argument about the culpability of China’s autocratic regime gained additional strength with the revelation that eight Chinese doctors who acted as whistleblowers about the virus were summarily discredited by the Chinese government as rumour-mongers. One of the eight doctors, [[Li Wenliang]], unfortunately succumbed to the disease soon after Beijing’s effort to discredit him and his colleagues. The sequence of events makes plain that the Chinese regime is primarily responsible for hiding the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan and delaying publicizing it and, consequently, for the great havoc it has caused in the world. No amount of [[whataboutism|whataboutery]] can hide this fact."<ref>https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/is-china-culpable-for-the-spread-of-coronavirus/</ref> China deliberately infected the world. |