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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by mantap on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:44PM (#22198517)
China is an autocratic dictatorship so the rules can and do change at any time, retroactively and arbitrarily.

That said you aren't going to be blacklisted for a single comment on HN. That sounds like the kind of thing the US would do.

Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by jdkee on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:17PM (#22198992)
No, that sounds like the thing China would do once it has perfected pattern recognition in 2023 or so.