When Warning Became A Crime: China’s Covid Whistleblowers, Six Years later

When Warning Became A Crime: China’s Covid Whistleblowers, Six Years later

As 2025 draws to a close, December 31 marks six years since China first notified the World Health Organization about a mysterious pneumonia spreading in Wuhan. That date has become a fixed point in global memory. What still provokes debate is not only how the virus spread, but how early warnings were treated inside China at a moment when days and even hours mattered. Despite Beijing’s repeated assertions that it acted decisively once the danger …