Coronavirus epidemic is the latest in a string of challenges for China's President Xi Jinping.
"This could pose a threat to Xi's image that he is always right and taking China to a better place," Tsang said."But the situation has been so closely controlled that most people in China still do not see the bigger picture."
Jiang Chaoliang, secretary of the provincial Communist Party committee of Hubei province, as well as two other officials, lost their jobs this week in the midst of the crisis. As news began to spread, officials made the extraordinary decision to quarantine the entire city of Wuhan, later expanded to encompass a population of some 30 million.
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