

Opinion
SCMP Columnist
Sino File by Cary Huang
The coronavirus threatens the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power
Authoritarianism has made this outbreak worse, not better. The state’s strength in controlling information and suppressing dissent is a weakness in fighting disease
Updated: 3:35pm, 9 Feb, 2020
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Cary Huang is a veteran China affairs columnist, having written on this topic since the early 1990s. He joined the Post in 2004, and was based in Beijing between 2005 and 2013, first as a correspondent and then as bureau chief. He was previously China editor at The Standard from 1992 until 2004.