Thread by @joshuawongcf

1/ Even though causing a spiralling worldwide #CoronavirusPandemic, China has never leant a lesson from its coverups and opaqueness. Even the WHO Representative for China has criticized #Beijing for not being invited to join China’s #coronavirus investigation.

2/ Besides, China now uses its economic clouts to stop people’s search for truth. Recently it blocked #Australia’s beef imports as a punishment to its call for independent coronavirus investigation.

3/ Nothing is more politically hypocritical when China uses its global propaganda campaign to curtail any mentions of #Wuhan as the virus origin, but at the same time, hysterically rejects any calls for probes into origins of disease.

4/ #Coronavirus has become a matter of life and death in every corner of the world. When China claims itself as a “responsible world power”, #CCP should shoulder its responsibility and be completely transparent, instead of merely taking benefits and burying truths.

5/ When #China refuses to be an honest and accountable power, it carries significant implications for future cooperations with China - Can we still hold China to account if faults arise?

6/ In the meantime, China has tightened its claws on #Hongkong and arrested more than 200 #hongkongprotesters and prominent pro-democracy figures over the past few weeks, when other countries are busy combating the virus.

7/ China's liaison office is paving the way for its direct control over #Hongkong by claiming itself above #1country2systems. #Beijing even calls #Hongkongprotesters as "virus" that must be eradicated. The city's autonomy is further in peril.

8/ Therefore, I welcome US senator @LindseyGrahamSC's proposed "Covid-19 Accountability Act”, which authorizes sanctions if China keeps refusing to give a full account of truths leading to the outbreak.