earlier this month thousands of people took to chinese social media to mourn dr levy lindley egg who died from the virus li was reprimanded by police in january for spreading so-called rumors about the merging outbreak in who bay province yet those social media post many with the hash tag we want freedom of speech were wiped by government censors for more on how china is mediating this unprecedented health crisis we're joined from new york by william young he's a journalist who covers the greater china region also in new york we have to go to china researcher at human rights watch and from edinburgh we are joined by maria nikolaevna she's a scholar of chinese political communications and is an assistant professor at georgia state university hello everyone i want to begin by talking to you william catch us up over the weekend it seems to me that pressure is starting to mao in the international press with the criticism being pointed more specifically at president xi is that a fair assessment and if so do you think he's starting to feel the heat. yeah so basically i think the revelation

earlier this month thousands of people took to chinese social media to mourn dr levy lindley egg who died from the virus li was reprimanded by police in january for spreading so-called rumors about the merging outbreak in who bay province yet those social media post many with the hash tag we want freedom of speech were wiped by government censors for more on how china is mediating this unprecedented health crisis we're joined from new york by william young he's a journalist who covers the greater china region also in new york we have to go to china researcher at human rights watch and from edinburgh we are joined by maria nikolaevna she's a scholar of chinese political communications and is an assistant professor at georgia state university hello everyone i want to begin by talking to you william catch us up over the weekend it seems to me that pressure is starting to mount in the international press with the criticism being pointed more specifically at president xi is that a fair assessment and if so do you think he's starting to feel the heat. yeah so basically i think the revelati

earlier this month thousands of people took to chinese social media to mourn dr levy lindley egg who died from the virus li was reprimanded by police in january for spreading so-called rumors about the merging outbreak in who bay province yet those social media post many with the hash tag we want freedom of speech were wiped by government censors for more on how china is mediating this unprecedented health crisis we're joined from new york by william young he's a journalist who covers the greater china region also in new york we have got to she's a china researcher at human rights watch and from edinburgh we are joined by maria nikolaevna she's a scholar of chinese political communications and is an assistant professor at georgia state university hello everyone i want to begin by talking to you william catch us up over the weekend it seems to me that pressure is starting to mount in the international press with the criticism being pointed more specifically at president xi is that a fair assessment and if so do you think he's starting to feel the heat. yeah so basically i think the re