If we learn anything from the spread of COVID-19 around the world, it should be the importance of freedom of speech. The Chinese Communist Party’s decision to silence discussion of the emerging disease and punish doctors who raised the alarm created an ideal environment for this virus to spread throughout Wuhan, then across China, and […]
Author Archives: Kevin Carrico
Kevin Carrico is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Monash University. He is the author of The Great Han- Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today, and the translator of Tsering Woeser’s Tibet on Fire. He is currently researching the emergence and implications of the idea of Hong Kong independence. Wen Wei Po reporters love his work so much that they literally follow him around Hong Kong.