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By Fred Lucas ~

The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates why a lack of knowledge about China’s problems can become the world’s problems, says Rep. Steve Chabot, regarding one of the world’s most powerful, yet also most secretive and oppressive regimes.

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a meeting of members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the China Association for Science and Technology in Beijing on May 28. (Photo: Ju Peng/Xinhua/Getty Images)

“No one fully understands what is happening in China. On the one hand, China seems to be an unstoppable juggernaut posing an existential threat to peace and freedom throughout Asia and the Pacific region,” Chabot, R-Ohio, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Friday at The Heritage Foundation, at an event previewing the release next week of Heritage’s “2021 China Transparency Report.”

On the other hand, they seem to be beset by…