The Chinese Regime Will Pay the Price for Concealing the Pandemic

People are lining up to take COVID-19 tests at a makeshift testing center in Dalian, in China's northeast Liaoning Province on July 26, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images

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China’s state-run media can’t prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from facing consequences for downplaying the severity of COVID-19 when it first broke out in Wuhan city last year and spread around the world. Many Chinese in the mainland and people around the world want to hold the CCP accountable for the pandemic.