China
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Western media unlocked: Hypocrisy behind COVID-19 reports
Why did apparently stigmatizing names like Chinese virus or Wuhan virus keep making headlines? How have the Western media shaped the narrative of China’s response to the novel coronavirus? As the virus continues to wreck havoc, China Daily investigates how the Western version of propaganda plays out in the global battle against coronavirus. Continue reading
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China rolls out the Health Silk Road
In the Belt and Road framework, China is supplying much of the world including virus-hit Europe with medicine and healthcare items Continue reading
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An interview with four Chinese physicians at the epicenter of the pandemic in Wuhan
Benjamin Mateus of the WSWS had an opportunity in mid-March, through an intermediary, to communicate with four Chinese physicians who were involved from the beginning in the massive response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. To assure the anonymity of these individuals, names and locations have been changed. The correspondence has been edited and reformatted… Continue reading
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China Did Not Deceive Us – Counting Death During An Epidemic Is Really Difficult
The anti-China campaign, which the Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger is running, presented its first of April joke. It leaked to Bloomberg that a secret U.S. Intelligence Report claims that China concealed the real numbers of its Covid-19 cases: Continue reading
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Amid coronavirus crisis, China demonstrates that an alternative to the US-led, neoliberal order is possible
For nearly four decades the United States and its Western allies have proclaimed to the world that “there is no alternative” to neoliberalism, maligning the state and public sector as inefficient and unproductive. If the 2008 financial crisis loosened this myth’s stranglehold on notions of what is possible, the current coronavirus pandemic has shattered it. Continue reading
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8 Day Journey From Hong Kong To Chile, COVID-19 On My Tail
Imagine that you are in Hong Kong, in a city where “you are actually not supposed to be”, in the first place. You are ready to go home, to South America. But just two days before your departure, via Seoul and Amsterdam, your first Sky Team carrier, Korean Air, unceremoniously decides to cancel all flights… Continue reading
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China Wins Big With Covid-19. What Were We Thinking?
China suffered through the H1N1 coronavirus epidemic in 2008 largely because the CDC took 6 months to identify it and, as a result, 300,000 died prematurely. SARS (774 deaths) was the clincher. They created a hair-trigger alarm system, mandated post-mortem pneumonia DNA testing nationwide, and promoted the CDC head, Dr. George F. Gao[1], to Demigod. Continue reading
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Coronavirus pandemic: China and Cuba send medical teams, equipments and medicine to countries
China and Cuba have stepped in with practical measures at international level amidst the near-collapse health care situation in a number of capitalist countries in the face of coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading
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China locked in hybrid war with US
Among the myriad, earth-shattering geopolitical effects of coronavirus, one is already graphically evident. China has re-positioned itself. For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the US as a threat, as stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference during the… Continue reading
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COVID-19: Cuban Interferon in China
The selection by the Chinese health authorities of Cuban interferon alpha 2B(IFRrec) among 30 other drugs to combat the new coronavirus Covid-19 should come as no surprise. Continue reading
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WHO Expert Explains Why China’s Cases Of COVID-19 Are Declining
China, and specifically Hubei province, is where the Covid-19 disease emerged; it’s where 83 percent of the 89,000 cases known to date have been recorded; and it’s where doctors and health authorities have been battling an epidemic for two months — while other countries braced themselves for outbreaks — using unprecedented public health measures, including a cordon sanitaire and lockdowns that affected… Continue reading
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Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the ‘fall of China’
While posing as a grassroots human rights organization, the World Uyghur Congress is a US-funded and directed separatist network that has forged alliances with far-right ethno-nationalist groups. The goal spelled out by its founders is clear: the destabilization of China and regime change in Beijing. Continue reading
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China’s Offers Experience in Europe’s Fight Against COVID-19
8 March 2020 — Telesur The World Health Organization stressed that international cooperation is crucial to managing the outbreak. At an extraordinary council on the COVID-19 epidemic held in Brussels on Friday, the European Union (EU) health ministers agreed to develop a coordinated approach to prevention and protection of people at risk, and establish coherent containment measures, including… Continue reading
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Coronavirus Alarm Blends Yellow Peril and Red Scare
As an Asian-American, I’m not surprised that there are numerous reports surfacing of racist and xenophobic responses arising in the US (and elsewhere) as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, where “coughing while Asian” is being compared to “driving while black.” In case there are any doubts that media coverage is being racialized, reports about… Continue reading
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China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US?
The Western media quickly took the stage and laid out the official narrative for the outbreak of the new coronavirus which appeared to have begun in China, claiming it to have originated with animals at a wet market in Wuhan. Continue reading
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Yellow-caking an epidemic: New York Times spreads the virus of hatred, again
In the face of this sudden and tragic crisis—and the extraordinarily responsible and responsive measures the Chinese government has taken to safeguard public health and prevent its spreading outside its epicenter and regional/national borders—buying the world time to respond—the western media has made a highly political choice on how to report about it. Continue reading
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Coronavirus: What the Western Media Doesn’t Tell You: High Recovery Rates in China
Western media hype: Fear and panic, disruption of the global economy. That makes the headlines. But not a word is mentioned that the COVID-19 pandemic in China is under control: people are being treated in hospitals and they are recovering. Continue reading
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Most coronavirus patients in nearly all Chinese regions recover
More than 87% patients in all Chinese regions, except for the Hubei province in central China, have recovered from diseases caused by the novel coronavirus, a spokesman at the National Health Commission Mi Feng told a news conference on Wednesday. Continue reading
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China suppressed Covid-19 with AI and big data
China used locational and other data from hundreds of millions of smartphones to contain the spread of Covid-19, according to Chinese sources familiar with the program. Continue reading
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The Viral Blame Game: Xenophobia, Attribution and Coronavirus
Moralising the way diseases and viruses are transferred is a very human, and particularly nasty trait. “We don’t need this kind of riff-raff on our shores,” screamed The New York Times in 1892 in response to Russian Jewish immigrants arriving at Ellis Island by boat. (The occupants hosted lice which, in turn, led to typhus.) Continue reading
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