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MINI-THREAD: In recent weeks while discussing the #COVID response, two senior Trump administration officials have implied that South Korea is an authoritarian country like China. That's wrong. It is a multi-party democracy with open elections and peaceful transitions of power.
Once is a mistake — but twice is very strange. Yes, these Trump administration officials are public health experts and not necessarily involved in foreign affairs. But this is *basic* geopolitical stuff here, the differences between the governments of China and South Korea.
Appearing on Fox News earlier today, senior HHS official Seema Verma said: "China and South Korea, they had very different approaches. We're a free country."
And in a Fox News interview last month, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said: "We are not an authoritarian nation, so we have to be careful when we say, 'Let's do what China did. Let's do what South Korea did.'"
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