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Coronavirus tests China's censors | World wildlife day

Posted by: The Conversation Global

Date: Tuesday, 03 March 2020

 

Editor's note

As the coronavirus known as COVID-19 spreads worldwide, fears of a global pandemic are running high. In China, the death in February of 34-year-old Dr. Li Wenliang, who first sounded the alarm back in December, sparked outrage across the country as people began to openly criticise the government’s mishandling of the crisis on social media, evading censors. China’s bravest investigative journalists joined the outcry. The government quickly burst this bubble of free speech. But Yuqi Na, who studies online communication in China, sees the public anger at coronavirus as an unprecedented show of power and unity by the Chinese people.

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