Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused the Chinese regime of “knowingly infecting people all across the globe” as the country prepares to reopen its border amid a record surge of COVID infections.
China is grappling with an explosive COVID-19 outbreak that has yet to peak. About 248 million people, or 18 percent of the country’s population, were estimated to have been infected by the virus between Dec. 1 to 20, according to a memo from an internal meeting of the country’s top health regulator leaked online.
As the virus swept through the nation of 1.4 billion, the regime announced last week it will reopen its borders on Jan. 8, scrapping one of the last remaining curbs from the strict zero-COVID policy that upended daily life for hundreds of millions and battered China’s economy….