U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized China for its continued failure to be transparent about COVID-19, in a recent interview with BBC World News. “It requires countries to be transparent; it requires them to share information; it requires them to give access to international experts at the beginning of an outbreak—things that, unfortunately, we haven’t seen from China,” Blinken said. He added, “My hope is going forward that China becomes a full participant in these efforts to make sure that we can prevent the next pandemic even as we’re dealing with the current one.” China’s cover-up of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, started during the initial stage of the outbreak. In late December 2019, Chinese authorities silenced eight whistleblowers, including ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, when they tried to warn on Chinese social media about an “unknown pneumonia” outbreak in the city of Wuhan. Most recently, …