CHINA - COVID ONE YEAR ON - BY GRAY SERGEANT December 2020

to highlight the Communist Party of China’s The economic hit from COVID-19 has been (CPC) negligence in the early outbreak and much harder than first anticipated as countries, catastrophic impact of COVID-19 on the rest of like the United Kingdom, have had to extend the world.1 Of course, since April 2020, when and re-impose lockdown measures designed the report was being written-up, the spread, t. [...] CNN’s ‘The Wuhan files’: System Failures The Economic Cost Furthermore, ‘the Wuhan files’ also points to ‘Coronavirus Compensation’ asked the failings of the health system in Hubei, and its economic impact of coronavirus by comparing general lack of preparedness, which led to the 2020 global economic growth forecasts by errors in the first few months of the outbreak. [...] At the down, bureaucratic constraints on the local time it was thought that Italy and Japan would health system which further prevented it be the hardest hit, with annual projected from adapting to the challenges of the virus growth rates of -0.4% and -0.2%.6 The report outbreak between October 2019 and April also noted that China, despite being the origin 2020. [...] Both are true of the UK which is forecasted to borrow a total of £394 billion, the equivalent of 19% of the country’s GDP.10 Which as the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, noted in his November 2020 Spending Review is the highest recorded level of borrowing in the UK’s peacetime history. [...] Promote — in future negotiations — terms protestation to the WHO, the that China submits itself to binding acceptance of the access granted by the dispute resolution mechanisms as part Peoples’ Republic of China to the team of its accession to any treaty or bilateral investigating the origins of COVID-19.