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A wave of anti-China feeling is rising. But it is misplaced – and threatens international peace, says Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet. F rom the very beginning of this pandemic, legitimate questions have been asked about what Chinese authorities have known, and when. The detention and questioning of, then the sanctions imposed on Li Wenliang , the doctor who alerted friends about the existence of a new Sars-like virus on 30 December , indicated a profound fear among government officials about the dangers of allowing information about this outbreak to leak out nationally and globally. He was gagged by...
