<p class="cafe-editor-text">diffident</p><p><img src='https://t1.daumcdn.net/cafeattach/I99o/132a1ea2fd0ed78151629eb58fa3b5817428b4a4' class="txc-image" /></p><p class="cafe-editor-text">Thanking big brother<br />China’s post-covid propaganda push<br /><br />China is handing out medical kit, and making sure the cameras see it<br /><br />Apr 16th 2020<br /><br />NEW YORK AND JOHANNESBURG<br /><br />Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub<br /><br />China calls it the biggest emergency-aid operation that it has mounted abroad since 1949, when the Communist Party seized power. Hardly a day goes by without news of Chinese medical supplies, from masks to ventilators, reaching grateful recipients; and of Chinese medical teams flying to foreign countries to help them fight covid-19. Just a few weeks ago China was by far the biggest victim of the new coronavirus, and its government was widely chided for covering up the initial outbreak. Now China is trying to paint a new picture—of itself as a model for taming the disease, and as the world’s saviour.<br /><br /></p><p><img src='https://t1.daumcdn.net/cafeattach/I99o/df54822c15bd564765f5c0de85f01f7dd2dd93d5' class="txc-image" /></p>
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