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India Savors a Rare Upside to Coronavirus: Clean Air
Delhi residents are stunned by how blue the sky really is as a strict lockdown cuts back drastically on air pollution. At Connaught Place, a shopping and restaurant hub in New Delhi on Tuesday. By Jeffrey Gettleman| New York Times| Photographs by Rebecca … Continued The post India Savors a Rare Upside to read more →
Chinese Campaign in Tibet Rewards Tibetans for Reporting on Each Other
Kalden Lodoe and Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Read the original article here. Chinese authorities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region recently announced a campaign aimed at stamping out rumors and misinformation, but Tibet analysts say that its true purpose … Continued The post Chinese Campaign in Tibet Rewards Tibetans read more →
Covid-19: Govt may extend lockdown as multiple states and experts are requesting
Live Mint. 7 Apr 2020. Read the original news here. Telangana CM on Monday said ‘lockdown is the only weapon we have to control the spread of this disease’ Modi has been asking countrymen to be ready for a long battle … Continued The post Covid-19: Govt may extend lockdown as read more →
The WHO Ignores Taiwan. The World Pays the Price.
Taiwan was more prepared for the coronavirus than any other country, but the WHO puts politics first. By Wilfred Chan| The Nation| Read original news here| APRIL 3, 2020 Commuters exit a metro train in downtown Taipei, March 16, 2020. (Paula Bronstein / … Continued The post The WHO Ignores Taiwan. The World read more →
US coronavirus death toll surpasses 10,000
The US has the third-highest number of reported deaths from COVID-19 in the world. Aljazeera News| 7 April 2020| Read original news here The United States death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins … Continued The post US coronavirus death toll surpasses 10,000 read more →
China and the U.S. Must Cooperate Against Coronavirus
Cui Tiankai for The New York Times. Read the original article here. This is a time for solidarity, collaboration, and mutual support. WASHINGTON — New York is my favorite American city. I used to live and work there and have … Continued The post China and the U.S. Must Cooperate read more →
Asymptomatic coronavirus cases appear to be on the rise in China, report says
Edmund DeMarche for Fox News. Read the original article here. Just as China is about to lift travel restrictions in Wuhan—the city considered to be the country’s one-time epicenter of the coronavirus—Beijing has reported an increase in asymptomatic cases there, which raises new … Continued The post Asymptomatic coronavirus cases appear to be read more →
China joins UN Human Rights Council panel despite troubling record, response to coronavirus
By Adam Shaw | Fox News| 5 April 2020| Read original news here China has been appointed to a panel on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, where it will help vet candidates for important posts — despite its decades-long record of systematic human rights … Continued The post China joins UN Human Rights Council read more →
China’s Coming Upheaval
Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping By Minxin Pei | Foreign Affairs| April 3, 2020| Read original here Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with villagers in Huzhou, China, about the coronavirus, March 2020Ju Peng Xinhua / eyevine / Redux Over … Continued The post China’s Coming Upheaval appeared first on read more →
China Isn’t Helping Italy. It’s Waging Information Warfare.
The populist Five Star Movement has become China’s chief enabler as Beijing spreads disinformation about the origins of the coronavirus while sending aid shipments to EU countries where it seeks influence. BY MATTIA FERRARES| Foreign Policy| Read original here Italy is … Continued The post China Isn’t Helping Italy. It’s Waging read more →
‘Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy’ Fails to Impress – or Reassure
Though the credo is mainly a PR exercise to massage China’s image, it leaves plenty of cause for global concern. By Denny Roy| The Diplomat| April 02, 2020| Read original here Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and paramount … Continued The post ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy’ Fails read more →
COVID-19 Symposium: A Time to Kill ‘Business as Usual’–Centring Human Rights in a Frustrated Economy (Part 2)
Tara Van Ho. Opinio Juris. April 2, 2020. Read the original article here. In the first part, I set out how ‘business as usual’ with regard to shareholder primacy has exacerbated human rights concerns associated with COVID-19. In this post, … Continued The post COVID-19 Symposium: A Time to Kill read more →
PM Narendra Modi plans staggered exit from vast coronavirus
Sanjeev Miglani| Reuters| Read original here| 2 April 2020 The shutdown, which has brought Asia’s third-largest economy to a shuddering halt, is due to end on April 14 PM Modi had ordered India’s 1.3 billion people indoors to avert a massive … Continued The post PM Narendra Modi plans staggered exit read more →
Captive nations and other inmates
The Chinese Communist Party wants to control the diaspora and suppress foreign criticism. Mongolians, Tibetans and Uighurs are not only silenced inside Xi Jinping’s empire, but abroad Standpoint Magazine Features| Read original here| 25/03/2020 (Illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck) You may not have … Continued The post Captive nations and other inmates appeared read more →
COVID-19: China concealed extent of coronavirus outbreak, US intelligence says
Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on its response to the outbreak, said Tuesday that China’s public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus. By: Bloomberg|Published: April 1, 2020| Read original … Continued The post COVID-19: China concealed extent of coronavirus read more →