A weekend national Chinese holiday called the Qingming Festival witnessed greatly relaxed restrictions across the country even as health authorities fear the coronavirus outbreak isn’t over, and as the potential for a new wave of ‘asymptomatic’ spreaders has health officials worried. It comes at a moment Beijing is slowly trying to open the economy back up, especially retail, restaurant and consumer-related businesses — but as citizens especially in previously hard-hit provinces […]
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Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, We have been paying dearly for China’s lies. “This is one of the worst cover-ups in human history, and now the world is facing a global pandemic,” said Rep. Michael T. McCaul, the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, before the US intelligence community concluded, in a classified report to the White House, that China has concealed the […]
As the coronavirus landed in Europe and the US, the former epicenter of the outbreak, China, has exported to other countries medical supplies worth $1.45 billion (10.2 billion yuan) to battle the deadly pandemic. The key supplies, including billions of masks, millions of protection suits and infrared temperature detectors, as well as 16,000 units of ventilators, were sent overseas in one month from March 1 to […]
Authored by Robert Boxwell via The South China Morning Post, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s retweet of an article blaming the US for infecting Wuhan with coronavirus went viral, viewed 160 million times within hours. But where did the story come from? By now, the early history of Covid-19 is well known, if not clear in its details. The virus was first detected somewhere around Wuhan, in […]
As officials in Beijing continue their crackdown on the illegal trade in live wild animals sold for human consumption at China’s infamous ‘wet’ markets – which have been blamed for passing the novel coronavirus to humans via bats, snakes or possible pangolins – Shenzen, the southern Chinese tech metropolis billed as China’s Silicon Valley, has become the first city to ban consumption of cats and dogs. […]
Authored by Richard Bernstein via RealClearInvestigations, China’s announcement this month of nearly a week of no new infections in Wuhan, the hard-hit city where the coronavirus pandemic originated, was both hope-inspiring — and hard to believe. Medical professionals said the draconian set of policies imposed by the Chinese government – including widespread testing, isolation of all infected people and anyone they came in contact with – […]
Thomas Peter / Getty Images China President Xi Jinping on a call with President Donald Trump early Friday morning called for improved relations between the two nations while urging “cooperation.” Xi called on Trump to take “’substantive actions’ to improve US-China relations to develop a relationship that is ‘without conflict and confrontation’ but based on ‘mutual respect and mutually beneficial cooperation.’” The Guardian goes on to report […]
Hubei province, the origin point for the coronavirus and China’s hardest-hit area, has announced no new cases of the deadly illness, just as authorities repeal far-reaching travel restrictions imposed across the region. The province saw zero fresh infections on Wednesday, having counted some 67,000 cases in total since the outbreak began last December. The whole of Mainland China also confirmed no locally-transmitted cases, according to the […]
The worsening tit-for-tat exchange of blame for the spread of coronavirus between Washington and Beijing continues, as on Wednesday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed China’s “intentional disinformation campaign” behind the “Wuhan virus” — something Pompeo says was discussed among the Group of Seven (G7) big economies in a virtual meeting. Pompeo not only emphasized China’s ‘propaganda’ but that it fueled the pandemic by intentionally and recklessly delaying crucial information […]
The city of Wuhan is coming back online, with no new cases of Covid-19 reported in the virus’ first epicenter and residents resuming business as usual. But as China recovers, the US has seen its worst day yet, tallying 163 deaths. For the first time since the coronavirus epidemic spiraled out of control in the metropolis of 11 million, Wuhan reported zero new infections on Tuesday, […]
Over the past two days, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths has seen the largest jump on record, even as the number of newly reported cases plateaus in Europe, as New York and a handful of other US states ramp up testing. On Monday, the US was hardest hit, with states adding 10,168 cases, the largest single-day increase for any country outside of China. […]
China’s Damning US Human Rights Report May Be Propaganda, but It’s Not Wrong By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com March 23, 2020 China’s Damning US Human Rights Report May Be Propaganda, but It’s Not Wrong2020-03-232020-03-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/ap_20077738929320_edited.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A homeless person holds a shoe while camped on a street bench, March 17, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. Ben Margot | AP China just released a 13,000-word report on the state […]
Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The Chinese government has been fast-tracking shipments of medical aid to Europe, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic that first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The largesse appears to be part of a public relations effort by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Communist Party to deflect criticism over their responsibility for the […]
The Chinese air force is moving to standardize the paint schemes of its aircraft, introducing new regulations requiring use of common paints and colors to reduce the fleet’s visibility both to the human eye and to radar. According to the new regulations, aircraft in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) will begin to use common “low observable” paint schemes that will reduce their visibility on […]
Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, Last July, five American analysts who have been consistently wrong told us “China is not an enemy.” Actually, this time they were technically right. China’s communism is not an enemy. It is the enemy. After the coronavirus pandemic subsides, Americans should not forget Beijing’s malicious campaign against their country. For more than a month, the central government’s foreign ministry and the Communist […]
Now that the world is firmly focusing on apocalyptic forecasts about the state of the US and global economy, with St Louis Fed president James Bullard the latest to pour gasoline into the fire with his worst-case prediction of a 50% GDP drop and 30% surge in unemployment in Q2, it is easy to forget that China, which started this whole pandemic, is still in economic […]
Far, far away from coronavirus worries, China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover and Chang’e-4 spacecraft have whirred back to life on the far side of the Moon, with the intrepid rover boldly setting off for unexplored areas. After powering down while the Moon was hidden from the Sun, the mission has now earnestly started its 16th lunar day of work on Earth’s natural satellite. The lander, rover and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107860/65/1078606533_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_689571b9694c4725c34564f5aa15f4cf.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202003191078619482-chinas-wuhan-origin-of-covid-19-reports-no-new-cases-for-first-time-since-outbreak/ Originating in Wuhan, Hubei province, last December, the virus has swiftly spread around the globe, prompting the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March. The Chinese city of Wuhan has reported no new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for the first time since the outbreak, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said on […]
The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s second Type 075 amphibious assault ship is nearing completion. Beijing has ordered at least three of the helicopter carriers, and according to the Global Times, may be developing a tilt-rotor aircraft to fly off them. At the Hudong Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, China’s next amphibious assault ship is taking shape. Photos on Chinese media and satellite images show a completed flight […]
While the Trump administration continues to blame China for “covering up” the coronavirus outbreak in December, government failures closer to home have left the US unprepared for the epidemic hitting its own shores, experts fear. Blaming China’s failure to “use best practices” for two months in lost response time to the Covid-19 epidemic, US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien lamented on Wednesday that “we could have […]
Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, “On current course, China is liable to do significant damage to the rest the world, by accident or intent,” wrote columnist Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal on January 29. “The Chinese Communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large”, wrote the noted historian Victor Davis Hanson on February 20. […]
Some while ago, rare earth metals important in the production of microchips, electronics and electric motors were almost exclusively sourced in China. However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, in recent years, several nations have picked up production again while new players entered the market, diversifying it at least to some degree. You will find more infographics at Statista China was still responsible for almost two thirds of […]
Over the weekend, China-watchers – or at least the ones who don’t really watch China all that closely and instead rely on others’ “hot takes” – were shocked to learn that in February both the Chinese manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs had crashed far below consensus expectations, tumbling to record low levels, surpassing even the economic contraction observed at the peak of the global financial crisis. Meanwhile, […]
The US plans to cap the number of personnel who can work at Chinese government-backed “propaganda” news outlets in the US, reported The Wall Street Journal, citing a senior Trump administration official on Monday afternoon. The move comes after China expelled nine foreign reporters since 2013, and three last month over their reporting of the virus outbreak. The senior official said caps on Chinese media outlets […]