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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (4720)	3/11/2020 9:12:23 PM
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Sounding exactly like Fat Daddy Donald Trump, the Communist Party chief of Wuhan, Wang Zhonglin, says the citizens of Wuhan -- still under lockdown -- are not appreciative enough to the Party and First Citizen Xi. "It is necessary to carry out gratitude education among the citizens of the whole city, so that they thank (President Xi Jinping), thank the Chinese Communist Party, heed the party, walk with the party, and create strong positive energy," Wang reportedly said. Wang's comments attracted widespread criticism online, and have since been mostly scrubbed by the censors, though some state media reports including the quote remain accessible. Yet while Wang appears to have gone too far in the eyes of many -- creating a public relations headache the propaganda apparatus had to clean up -- the sentiment he was expressing is nevertheless widely shared. As the coronavirus spreads around the world, China has been increasingly vocal about what it appears to feel is a lack of appreciation from the global community for its efforts to contain the outbreak, and preventing the crisis from being even worse than it may turn out to be. The Party accuses many citizens of becoming ill merely to embassy the Party China activist who called Xi clueless on coronavirus Xu Zhiyong is being held in secret detention and faces years in jail for 'inciting subversion of state power'. Xu published an essay last month, which called on Xi to resign for what he saw as his lack of ability to govern China, citing the coronavirus crisis and the mishandling of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. “You didn’t authorise the truth to be released, and the outbreak turned into a national disaster,” Xu wrote. “Whenever you face looming crisis, you’re clueless … Mr Xi Jinping, please step down.” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNBC last week that it had been "incredibly frustrating" to work with the Chinese government to obtain data on the coronavirus, "which will ultimately be the solution to both getting the vaccine and attacking this risk." He blamed the initial response to the virus -- during which Chinese officials copied Donald Trump's lead and downplayed information about its severity -- as putting the US "behind the curve" in coming up with a response and forcing Trump to lie like a dog.