‘A COVER UP?’: Beijing envoy grilled on TV over coronavirus response qanda
“So information was blocked from people. People that we would interview would often disappear. Would be put under house arrest … we were detained on numerous occasions. Sometimes … violently and physically detained.”“We think sometimes the Western media failed to give out the information, picked out a piece of a large jigsaw to portray China as a very autocratic country.
“Most of the Chinese people are good people. They’re willing to sacrifice their immediate pleasure and personal income for the greater good. If we let these people out – and there are several cases recently of not communal outbreak, but people-to-people transmission – those people who were infected, what do you say to that?”Source:Supplied
MacIntyre said it wasn’t a comment on the videos specifically but said “just to be the devil’s advocate”, Australia’s laws also allowed it to forcibly isolate someone if they posed a risk to the communities around them.
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