Is The Coronavirus Outbreak Putting An End To Chinese President Dreams Of A Chinese Century?

Illustration by Edel Rodriguez for TIME

Charlie Campbell, Time: The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Derail Xi Jinping’s Dreams of a Chinese Century

It took eight hours for a doctor to see Wu Chen’s mother after she arrived at the hospital. Eight days later, she was dead.

The doctor was “99% sure” she had contracted the mysterious pneumonia-like illness sweeping China’s central city of Wuhan, Wu says, but he didn’t have the testing kit to prove it. And despite the 64-year-old’s fever and perilously low oxygen levels, there was no bed for her. Wu tried two more hospitals over the next week, but all were overrun. By Jan. 25, her mother was slumped on the tile floor of an emergency room, gasping for air, drifting in and out of consciousness. “We didn’t want to see my mom die on the floor, so we took her home,” says Wu, 30. “She passed the next day.”

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WNU Editor: The above is a sobering essay on how China's political system made the Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic into the disaster that it is today.

Update: We shall see .... Is the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak threatening Xi's hold to power? (Ted Regencia, Time).

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