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    CHINA RESPONDS

    Feb 27, 2020 4 minutes
    By Jon Taylor
    Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo

    The author is chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography and professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio

    Imagine the U.S. Government shutting down almost all forms of public transportation, a substantial number of international airline flights, all schools and many businesses during the period between Thanksgiving through the end of the Christmas season and beyond. That is what is currently going on in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, with what has become possibly the largest quarantine in human history.

    Faced with a spreading epidemic, China’s Central Government

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