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Years after SARS, a more confident China faces a new virus

by Associated Press
| January 22, 2020 4:35 AM

BEIJING (AP) — As a viral outbreak spread from the central Chinese city of Wuhan this week, the ruling Communist Party's central political and legal affairs commission issued a stern warning: “Whoever deliberately delays and conceals reports will forever be nailed to history's pillar of shame.”

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