Page 16 - Leszek Kolakowski News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Bret Stephens: China won’t bury us, either By Bret Stephens © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Garry Kasparov has a pithy way of summing up the past 18 months of tribulation. “China gave us the virus,” the chess and human rights champion told me over a recent breakfast. “And the free world gave us the vaccines.” You don’t have to subscribe to the lab-leak theory of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to acknowledge this: Had it not been for the cover-up that Chinese officials tried to orchestrate in the critical early days of the crisis, there might have been a chance for the virus to be contained. Instead, China’s government began with lies and has kept lying ever since, at the expense of public health everywhere. They’ve also sold the world’s poorer countries on a vaccine that doesn’t work too well.

New yorkUnited statesHong kongGreat wallChina generalSouth china seaBrunei generalBret stephensHenry kissingerSteven lee myersNikita khrushchevMao zedongChris buckleyLeszek kolakowskiGarry kasparovNew york times