Epoch Times
Date: August 12, 2020
By: Frank Fang
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar (L) speaks as Taiwans Deputy Premier Shen Jong-chin (R) listens during a visit of a mask factory in the Wugu district in New Taipei City on August 12, 2020. – Azar is in Taipei for a three-day visit. (Photo by Pei Chen / POOL / AFP) (Photo by PEI CHEN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Compared to Taiwan’s transparent information-sharing, the Chinese regime showed “failure to share viral isolates from the initial [COVID-19] cases; the failure to disclose rapid human-to-human transmission; failure to disclose asymptomatic transmission; failure to allow in external experts to learn about the disease,” said Azar on Aug. 12, hours before he and his delegation departed Taiwan.
Azar made the remarks during a telephone briefing with journalists that was hosted by the U.S. State Department of State’s Asia Pacific Media Hub in Manila. [FULL STORY]
