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The Canadian physician, a trained epidemiologist, is one of the most
influential officials in global efforts to beat this pandemic through
his role as assistant director-general at the World Health Organisation
(WHO). Much of his time has been spent in the media, often praising China
for its response to an epidemic that emerged last year in the central
city of Wuhan. Aylward led a WHO mission there last month and was
clearly impressed, even saying if he had the virus he wanted to be treated there. Yet Aylward, raised in one of the world’s most benign societies,
panders to the crude narrative of Communist Party chieftans, who now
pose as heroes of this pandemic. So when a Taiwanese journalist asked about
her country’s laudable response to the virus, he paused for several
seconds, pretended not to hear the question and then appeared to hang up
on her call. The reporter dialled back, but was brushed off with the
reply that “we’ve already talked about China — and when you look across
all the different areas of China, they’ve actually done quite a good
job.”
Such words could have spewed from the mouth of a tremulous Beijing bureaucrat."
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