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COP26 postponement
The COP26 UN climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19. GOV.UK| Read original here| 1 April 2020 From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP The … Continued The post COP26 postponement appeared first on Central read more →
This man in Bengaluru has been giving refuge to stranded Tibetans during the lockdown
Source: edexlive.com 30th Mar 2020 06:57 PM | Blessy Mathew Prasad Tashi Wangdu is a Tibetan who was born and raised in Bylakuppe, Karnataka. The 46-year-old been living in Bengaluru since 2010 and runs a guest house called The Himalayan Inn in Bengaluru. Since the pandemic started and the Indian government announced the read more →
China, Russia, and Arctic Geopolitics
China’s burgeoning role in the Arctic could translate into direct competition with Russia. By Ling Guo and Steven Lloyd Wilson| The Diplomat| Read original here| March 29, 2020 Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Christoper Michel In late February, a Russian icebreaker, Kapitan Dranitsyn, successfully carried out … Continued The post China, Russia, and Arctic Geopolitics appeared read more →
Concerns Grow Over Wuhan Doctor Amid Call For Return to Work
Reported by Qiao Long for RFA’s Mandarin Service, and by the Cantonese Service. Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie. March 31, 2020. Read the original news here. Whistleblowing Wuhan doctor Ai Fen is currently incommunicado, believed detained after giving media … Continued The post Concerns Grow Over Wuhan Doctor Amid read more →
Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus
By Gary P. Pisano, Raffaella Sadun and Michele Zanini| Harvard Business Review| Read original here| March 27, 2020 As policymakers around the world struggle to combat the rapidly escalating Covid-19 pandemic, they find themselves in uncharted territory. Much has been written about the practices … Continued The post Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus read more →
Taiwan foreign minister invites U.S. reporters expelled by China
Reuters| Read original here| 28 March 2020 (Reuters) – Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu extended a personal invitation on Saturday for three major U.S. newspapers to station on the island their China-based journalists whose expulsion Beijing has announced. China said … Continued The post Taiwan foreign minister invites U.S. reporters read more →
Coronavirus Crisis Awakens a Sleeping Giant: China’s Youth
By Vivian Wang and Javier C. Hernández| New York Times| March 29 2020| Read original here Students have flooded social media to organize donations for Chinese doctors battling the coronavirus epidemic. Workers have marched in the streets to demand compensation for weeks of unemployment … Continued The post Coronavirus Crisis Awakens a Sleeping Giant: read more →
Can We Forgive China?
If any other country had sparked such a mammoth international crisis, it would now be in the global doghouse. Brahma Chellaney | 27 March, 2020| Open The Magazine| Read original here THE INCALCULABLE HUMAN and economic toll exacted by the spread of … Continued The post Can We Forgive China? appeared first read more →
China’s Weak Excuse to Block Investigations in Xinjiang
Sophie Richardson, China Director| Human Rights Watch| 25 March 2020| Read original here When a journalist recently asked China’s ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai if the Chinese government would allow international human rights monitors into Xinjiang to observe without supervision, Cui … Continued The post China’s Weak Excuse to Block Investigations read more →
Covid-19 relief: FM announces Rs 1.7 trn plan for poor, migrant workers
Package announced includes both food security and cash transfer components BS Web Team & Agencies, Business Standard. March 27, 2020. Read the original news here. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a relief package for the poor and migrant workers in … Continued The post Covid-19 relief: FM announces Rs 1.7 read more →
How the Virus Got Out
By Jin Wu, Weiyi Cai, Derek Watkins and James Glanz| March 22, 2020| New York Times| Read original here The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show … Continued The post How the Virus Got Out appeared read more →
Tibetan capital Lhasa announces relaxation of quarantine policy
International Campaign for Tibet. March 27, 2020. Read original news here. A Chinese government committee relaxed its quarantine policy in the Tibetan capital Lhasa this week, in the midst of Beijing’s campaign to repair China’s economy and reputation around the … Continued The post Tibetan capital Lhasa announces relaxation of read more →
Communist Party Members Share Letter Urging Removal of Xi Jinping
Source : www.breitbart.com by FRANCES MARTEL /24 Mar 2020 Communist Party leaders have reportedly begun circulating a letter demanding an emergency Politburo to address dictator Xi Jinping’s poor performance leading the country, Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed on Monday. The author of the letter, which does not identify him or read more →
The Coronavirus Cover-Up
Sources: thecritic.co.uk By Kapil Komireddi 24 March, 2020 How the West’s fear of appearing racist obscures the blunders at the beginning of this outbreak The calamity unfolding all around us did not emerge from a void. It originated in China. And its eruption into a global pandemic is inseparable from read more →
External Propaganda Casts Beijing As Leader In Global Coronavirus Fight
Global Digitial Times| 24 March 2020| Read original here At the height of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, Zhao Shilin, a retired Minzu University professor and former member of the Central Committee and Deputy Director of the Culture and Arts … Continued The post External Propaganda Casts Beijing As Leader read more →