How Democracies and Dictatorships are Reacting to the Virus - Human Rights Foundation

How Democracies and Dictatorships are Reacting to the Virus

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Apr 20, 2024

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, Axios China reporter Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, and Deutsche Welle COVID-19 correspondent William Yang join HRF’s Alex Gladstein to discuss how democracies and dictatorships have handled the coronavirus outbreak.

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