with Simone Gao
As US transmission of the CCP virus trends towards Italy’s, we look to Taiwan, one of the countries that most successfully contained the outbreak. In this episode, we look at facts and numbers, and we discuss these questions with some of the finest minds in the country.
Can we trust the World Health Organization’s findings in China? Who is the real patient zero? And how safe are the laboratories in Wuhan?
On Feb. 12 Hubei authorities announced the largest single-day rise in coronavirus cases. The number of cases was 10 times larger than the previous day. Was it really just a spike, or is China’s epidemic 10 times worse than reported?
The coronavirus has now killed more people in China than the SARS epidemic of 2002-2003. As the coronavirus reaches 25 countries around the world, the Chinese regime is under scrutiny as to whether it is attempting to distort the true nature of the epidemic.
This January, Taiwan will elect their next president and a new Legislative Yuan. Amidst the U.S.-China conflict, Taiwan’s choice will decide their relations with the two most powerful countries in the world.