Esper Says CCP Needs to Be More ‘Forthright’ on COVID-19 Pandemic

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4/16/2020|Updated: 4/17/2020

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on April 16 that if the Chinese regime had been more transparent about the COVID-19 earlier, the world would have developed more solutions to controlling the pandemic by this time.

“If the Chinese government, the Party, had been more transparent earlier, it would have helped us in terms of staying ahead of this virus, being able to understand its DNA, develop therapeutics and vaccines much quicker,” Esper said on the Today show.

Venus Upadhayaya

Reporter

Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.

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