Josh Hawley says 'accountability' is next after Biden signs COVID declassification bill
FOX NewsJUL 2023
COVID accelerated the decline of press freedoms in a nation that already suffers from a dearth of them. Fang Bin and others took grave risks to speak the truth about China's COVID façade, and they should be commended for their bravery, not punished. All similarly imprisoned journalists must be freed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Provoked by Western actors with a vested interest in destabilizing the country, these so-called citizen journalists — who violated Chinese laws — were duped into spreading falsehoods, distorting China's robust COVID response. The West should scrutinize its own handling of COVID before condemning others.