China’s official media makes “a funeral into a wedding”

The World

It’s rare for Chinese citizens living inside their country to dare to criticize their government’s policies. The World spoke with a young Shanghai resident who used the named Ren who says official Chinese news media is using staged footage of heroism to portray the fight against  the coronavirus, while not taking responsibility for what went wrong with the government’s response to the outbreak.  

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