EP | 56 China must be held accountable for the Wuhan Virus Pandemic by the community of nations

The Senate just passed a $2 trillion stimulus package in response to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. This might never have happened, had the Communist Chinese dictatorship acted in accordance with the treaty commitments they previously made to the American people. If China had come clean about the coronavirus just three weeks sooner, the number of current cases might be 95% less, a recent study found. But instead, the Communist Chinese dictatorship attempted to cover it up. The current worldwide pandemic is the result. What did they do? First, in mid-December 2019, Doctors who initially told Chinese health authorities about the “pneumonia of unclear cause” were reprimanded and given hush orders by the Chinese Communist Party, and the Times of London reported China ordered laboratories “to stop tests, destroy samples, and suppress the news." Second, China failed to prevent travel by infected persons and even put out a statement in mid-Jan that said there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus,” even as cases started appearing around the world. China’s cover-up strategy included delays and attempts to withhold information about this deadly new contagion violates multiple international treaties China supported and signed according to human rights attorneys. As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, and one which has been severely impacted by China’s willful intransigence, what can the United States do? What should the community of nations do as a whole? New Mexico US Senate candidate and former Trump administration deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development, and former business professor Gavin Clarkson joins us to discuss his article this week about this subject in the Washington Examiner.