Canada: One million respirators acquired from China unfit for coronavirus fight
April 25, 2020By ANDY BLATCHFORD| Politico| 23 April 2020| Read original news here OTTAWA — Canada’s public health authority says around one million KN95 respirators acquired from China have failed to meet federal Covid-19 standards for use by frontline health professionals. As a … Continued The post Canada: One million respirators acquired from read more →
Nomads Appeal Plan to Make Tibetan Schools in Ngaba Teach in Chinese
April 25, 2020Reported by Lobe, Takha Gyal, and Sonam Lhamo for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Eugene Whong. Read the original article here. Tibetan nomads in China’s western Sichuan province have appealed to the Chinese government … Continued The post Nomads Appeal Plan to Make Tibetan read more →
China must not shape the future of human rights at the UN
April 24, 2020Kyle Matthews, Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, The Conversation CA. April 23, 2020. Read original news here. While most of the world is occupied trying to manage the spread of the coronavirus, another frightening development is taking place at the United Nations Human … Continued The post China must not shape the future read more →
China’s Coronavirus Information Offensive
April 24, 2020Laura Rosenberger for Foreign Affairs. Read the original article here. Beijing Is Using New Methods to Spin the Pandemic to Its Advantage From the first days of COVID-19’s appearance in the city of Wuhan, China’s leaders focused on control—not only … Continued The post China’s Coronavirus Information Offensive appeared first read more →
China’s Hidden Crackdown in Tibet
April 24, 2020Kate Saunders for The Diplomat. Read the original article here. On April 1, government officials arrived at a remote rural monastery in Markham, Tibet, where local people were completing the construction of a small building in the temple compound to … Continued The post China’s Hidden Crackdown in Tibet appeared read more →
Coronavirus is both a crisis and an opportunity for China’s aggressive new diplomacy
April 23, 2020James Griffiths for CNN. Read the original article here. Hong Kong (CNN)Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, China has struggled to control the narrative around its role in the crisis. Is Beijing a noble victim, ably controlling an unforeseeable … Continued The post Coronavirus is both a crisis and read more →
How a small Indian state flattened the coronavirus curve
April 23, 2020Oommen C Kurian| The Guardian| 21 Apr 2020| Read the original news here Medical staff test people for coronavirus in kiosks at Ernakulam medical college in Kerala. Photograph: Arun Chandrabose/AFP via Getty Images In early March the alarm bells hadn’t started … Continued The post How a small Indian state flattened read more →
China Goes on a Global Diet
April 23, 2020BY DAVID BARBOZA AND SHEN LU| Wire China| APRIL 19, 2020| Read the original article here China’s effort to acquire resources and technology from abroad has been hampered by its economic slowdown at home and growing hostility to the country’s investments in other parts … Continued The post China Goes on a Global Diet read more →
UK to trial coronavirus treatments using blood from survivors
April 22, 2020Ian Sample Science editor| The Guardian| 20 Apr 2020| Read original news here Health officials have prioritised two clinical trials that will be supplied with blood from recovered Covid-19 patients in the hope that transfusions can help save the lives of people hospitalised … Continued The post UK to trial coronavirus treatments using read more →
Coronavirus update: Covid-19 cases in India surge to 17,656, death toll at 559. State-wise numbers
April 22, 2020By Aparna Banerjea| Live Mint| 20 April 2020| Read original news here| The total number of novel coronavirus cases in India today surged to 17,656, after 1,540 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data of Ministry … Continued The post Coronavirus update: Covid-19 cases in India read more →