Lack of COVID-19 Raw Data in China Hinders the Investigation,
Tedros Adhanom: Virus Leakage From a Laboratory Has Not Yet Excluded
The pandemic has spread for over one and a half years. The WHO specialist team published a report in March indicating that the Covid-19 virus was “extremely unlikely” leaked from the laboratory. Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the WHO, said on 15 July that the lack of raw data of the early epidemic situation in China affected the origin investigation. The claim of the virus outbreak due to the laboratory leak was excluded too early. He pointed out that he was an immunologist, and it is common to have accidents in the laboratory. The investigation of the source of the pandemic is important. In addition to preventing the next pandemic, it is also necessary to be responsible for millions of people who died in the pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom pointed out that the conclusion came too fast after publishing the report in March as China has not provided any original data to the specialist group yet. He then called for a continuous deep investigation. He reiterated a similar point of view at the press conference yesterday and hoped that China would cooperate to provide comprehensive information. It is too early to exclude the probability of the virus leakage from the Wuhan laboratory without sufficient information.
Source: Stand News #Jul16
https://bit.ly/2WTX7bn
#China #WHO #Wuhan #TedrosAdhanom #COVID19 #leakage #WHO
Tedros Adhanom: Virus Leakage From a Laboratory Has Not Yet Excluded
The pandemic has spread for over one and a half years. The WHO specialist team published a report in March indicating that the Covid-19 virus was “extremely unlikely” leaked from the laboratory. Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the WHO, said on 15 July that the lack of raw data of the early epidemic situation in China affected the origin investigation. The claim of the virus outbreak due to the laboratory leak was excluded too early. He pointed out that he was an immunologist, and it is common to have accidents in the laboratory. The investigation of the source of the pandemic is important. In addition to preventing the next pandemic, it is also necessary to be responsible for millions of people who died in the pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom pointed out that the conclusion came too fast after publishing the report in March as China has not provided any original data to the specialist group yet. He then called for a continuous deep investigation. He reiterated a similar point of view at the press conference yesterday and hoped that China would cooperate to provide comprehensive information. It is too early to exclude the probability of the virus leakage from the Wuhan laboratory without sufficient information.
Source: Stand News #Jul16
https://bit.ly/2WTX7bn
#China #WHO #Wuhan #TedrosAdhanom #COVID19 #leakage #WHO
China snubs senior US official in worsening diplomatic stand-off
Beijing has snubbed the US by refusing to grant Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state, a meeting with her counterpart during a proposed visit to China that would have been the first top-level engagement since acrimonious talks in Alaska.
The US halted plans for Sherman to travel to Tianjin after China refused to agree to a meeting with Le Yucheng, her counterpart, according to four people familiar with the decision. China offered a meeting with Xie Feng, the number five foreign ministry official who is responsible for US affairs.
The Biden administration had been negotiating what would have been the first high-level engagement since their first meeting in Alaska, which erupted into a public spat between Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, and Yang Jiechi, the top Chinese foreign policy official.
Source: Financial Time #Jul16
https://t.co/gIwoW9Omjj
#China #US #Beijing #Tianjin
Beijing has snubbed the US by refusing to grant Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state, a meeting with her counterpart during a proposed visit to China that would have been the first top-level engagement since acrimonious talks in Alaska.
The US halted plans for Sherman to travel to Tianjin after China refused to agree to a meeting with Le Yucheng, her counterpart, according to four people familiar with the decision. China offered a meeting with Xie Feng, the number five foreign ministry official who is responsible for US affairs.
The Biden administration had been negotiating what would have been the first high-level engagement since their first meeting in Alaska, which erupted into a public spat between Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, and Yang Jiechi, the top Chinese foreign policy official.
Source: Financial Time #Jul16
https://t.co/gIwoW9Omjj
#China #US #Beijing #Tianjin
U.S. Warns Businesses Over Rising Risks in Hong Kong Under China Crackdown
The Biden administration is warning American businesses about the increasing risks of operating in Hong Kong as China’s tightening grip on the city causes business conditions to deteriorate.
In an advisory issued Friday, the Biden administration cautions businesses and individuals working for them that they are subject to a restrictive national-security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong a year ago. The advisory cites the risks of electronic surveillance without warrants and of being compelled to surrender corporate and customer data to the government.
Source: WSJ #Jul16
https://t.co/kTon5TwP3g
#US #HongKong #China #Business #Risk
The Biden administration is warning American businesses about the increasing risks of operating in Hong Kong as China’s tightening grip on the city causes business conditions to deteriorate.
In an advisory issued Friday, the Biden administration cautions businesses and individuals working for them that they are subject to a restrictive national-security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong a year ago. The advisory cites the risks of electronic surveillance without warrants and of being compelled to surrender corporate and customer data to the government.
Source: WSJ #Jul16
https://t.co/kTon5TwP3g
#US #HongKong #China #Business #Risk
Canadian voters are likely to face foreign cyber interference in the next election, say cyber spies
Canadian voters are likely to face some form of foreign cyber interference ahead and during the next federal election, warns Canada's cyber spy agency, including false information about voter fraud.
However, that meddling is unlikely to match the scale and influence as seen in the U.S., says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in a new threat assessment report published Friday.
"We assess that an increasing number of threat actors have the cyber tools, the organizational capacity, and a sufficiently advanced understanding of Canada's political landscape to direct cyber activity against future Canadian federal elections, should they have the strategic intent," reads the report.
Source: CBC #Jul16
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-security-threats-cse-1.6104745
#Canadian #Canada #Vote #Spy #CSE
Canadian voters are likely to face some form of foreign cyber interference ahead and during the next federal election, warns Canada's cyber spy agency, including false information about voter fraud.
However, that meddling is unlikely to match the scale and influence as seen in the U.S., says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in a new threat assessment report published Friday.
"We assess that an increasing number of threat actors have the cyber tools, the organizational capacity, and a sufficiently advanced understanding of Canada's political landscape to direct cyber activity against future Canadian federal elections, should they have the strategic intent," reads the report.
Source: CBC #Jul16
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-security-threats-cse-1.6104745
#Canadian #Canada #Vote #Spy #CSE
Indonesia has 5 million confirmed cases a day, Korean media criticized relentlessly as “has been pitted by China’s vaccines”
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Indonesia has 5 million confirmed cases a day, Korean media criticized relentlessly as “has been pitted by China’s vaccines”
Indonesia recently is being a COVID-19 pandemic centre globally, and there were 5 million confirmed cases on 14 July. A Korean media reported this situation today (16July), and directly stated “has been pitted by the China’s vaccines”.
Chosun Media in Chinese version used “Indonesia confirms 10% of global cases in one day…has been pitted by the vaccines produced by China” as title on 16July, reported the difficult situation facing by Indonesia nowadays. The official of Indonesia announced on 14 July, there was 54,517 confirmed cases. Reviewed back to mid of May, the confirmed cases were approximately two thousand people, however from 21 June, the daily confirmed cases were over 1.5 million, on 14 July was the first time to over 5 million confirmed cases on a single day, which is 10% of the global cases on that day.
The report stated, the ratio of people who had first dose vaccination in Indonesia is 13.3%, completely vaccinated is 5.5%. However, the problem is occurred in the vaccines, there are 90% from Sinovac. A foreign media reported recently, there were 181 medical staff died from the pandemic during June to the next few days, which mainly vaccinated with Sinovac.
Source: The Liberty Times #Jul16
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3605438
#China #Indonesia #KoreanMedia #ChosunMedia #Sinovac #COVID #Pandemic #Vaccines
Indonesia recently is being a COVID-19 pandemic centre globally, and there were 5 million confirmed cases on 14 July. A Korean media reported this situation today (16July), and directly stated “has been pitted by the China’s vaccines”.
Chosun Media in Chinese version used “Indonesia confirms 10% of global cases in one day…has been pitted by the vaccines produced by China” as title on 16July, reported the difficult situation facing by Indonesia nowadays. The official of Indonesia announced on 14 July, there was 54,517 confirmed cases. Reviewed back to mid of May, the confirmed cases were approximately two thousand people, however from 21 June, the daily confirmed cases were over 1.5 million, on 14 July was the first time to over 5 million confirmed cases on a single day, which is 10% of the global cases on that day.
The report stated, the ratio of people who had first dose vaccination in Indonesia is 13.3%, completely vaccinated is 5.5%. However, the problem is occurred in the vaccines, there are 90% from Sinovac. A foreign media reported recently, there were 181 medical staff died from the pandemic during June to the next few days, which mainly vaccinated with Sinovac.
Source: The Liberty Times #Jul16
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3605438
#China #Indonesia #KoreanMedia #ChosunMedia #Sinovac #COVID #Pandemic #Vaccines
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印尼一天確診破5萬人 韓媒不留情直批「被中國疫苗坑了」 - 國際 - 自由時報電子報
印尼最近成為全球武漢肺炎（新型冠狀病毒病，COVID-19）疫情中心，14日更爆出單日新增5萬確診的恐怖數字，今天（16日）有韓媒報導此一慘況，更直指印尼「被中國產疫苗坑了」。《朝鮮日報中文版》16日以「印尼一天內確診全球10%的病例...被中國產疫苗坑了」為題，報導印尼現今面臨的艱難處境，印尼官方14日公布，一天確診人數多達54517，回顧5月中旬，印尼日確診約2千人，但從6月21日開始，每天確診超過1.5萬人，14日則是首次單日確診超過5萬人，是當天全球新增確診者的10%。
“One Belt One Road” from China has become a dead end, the photo of the construction made into ruins exposed, hundreds of billions of debts to other countries
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“One Belt One Road” from China has become a dead end, the photo of the construction made into ruins exposed, hundreds of billions of debts to other countries
China aims to expand its influence in the world, has announced a project of “One Belt One Road” recently. However, there are more and more argument, including many countries broke into a “debt trap”. Including Montenegro, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Kenya, and other countries, although they once received preferential treatment from China’s “One Belt One Road”, China did half of the construction, but left the construction sites in ruins, and the roads really became “dead roads”.
The Sun from England stated from the report, in countries with weaker economic power such as Asia, Europe, and Africa, China advocates the “One Belt One Road” initiative and makes these countries willing to believe in China, but in the end, it will fall into a debt trap. These countries allow China to carry out construction projects in China, but many projects are only halfway through, resulting in construction sites turned into rubble, and they must make these countries debt with about NT$100 billion.
Source: Stand News #Jul16
https://bit.ly/37Pgd4C
#China #OneBeltOneRoad #HeavyDebt #TheSun #Construction #Infrastructure
China aims to expand its influence in the world, has announced a project of “One Belt One Road” recently. However, there are more and more argument, including many countries broke into a “debt trap”. Including Montenegro, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Kenya, and other countries, although they once received preferential treatment from China’s “One Belt One Road”, China did half of the construction, but left the construction sites in ruins, and the roads really became “dead roads”.
The Sun from England stated from the report, in countries with weaker economic power such as Asia, Europe, and Africa, China advocates the “One Belt One Road” initiative and makes these countries willing to believe in China, but in the end, it will fall into a debt trap. These countries allow China to carry out construction projects in China, but many projects are only halfway through, resulting in construction sites turned into rubble, and they must make these countries debt with about NT$100 billion.
Source: Stand News #Jul16
https://bit.ly/37Pgd4C
#China #OneBeltOneRoad #HeavyDebt #TheSun #Construction #Infrastructure
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中國「一帶一路」變死路！建設做成廢墟照片曝光 害別國背債上千億 ｜ 蘋果新聞網 ｜ 蘋果日報
中國為了擴展世界影響力，近年推出「一帶一路」計畫，但爭議也越來越多，包括有不少國家爆出陷入「債務陷阱」。包括蒙特內哥羅、斯里蘭卡、哈薩克、肯亞等國，雖一度受到中國一帶一路的優惠，但中國把建設做到一半，卻讓工地荒廢成廢墟，公路真的變成了「死路」。 英國《太陽報》今日報導指出，中...
The “Great Firewall of China” is blocking 311,000 domains, including commercial, pornographic, and news media sites.
A team of academics from US and Canadian universities is investigating the China's Great Firewall with in-house developed system called “GFWatch”, to determine China's internet censorship capabilities.
The research team said that the China's Great Firewall blocks newly registered domains by default, until the authorities could filter and categorize their content. Using “GFWatch”, researchers tested 534 million distinct domains from April to December 2020, accessing around 411 million domains on a daily basis, and sorted out about 311,000 domains currently blocked by the China's Great Firewall, in which 40% of them are newly registered domains. The most frequently blocked ones include commercial, pornographic or news media.
Moreover, as the pandemic grew more intense last year some of the COVID-19 related websites are also banned, such as covid-19truth.info. In addition, some domains are accidentally blocked for name similarity with intentionally block sites. For instant, bookreddit.com is also blocked when the Chinese authorities blocks reddit.com, which make Chinese students hard to use those online resources for learning.
Source: Unwire.HK #Jul16
https://unwire.hk/2021/07/16/gfwblockage/fun-tech
#China #Firewall #Internet #Censorship #Pornographic #GFWatch #COVID19 #Reddit #LearningResources
A team of academics from US and Canadian universities is investigating the China's Great Firewall with in-house developed system called “GFWatch”, to determine China's internet censorship capabilities.
The research team said that the China's Great Firewall blocks newly registered domains by default, until the authorities could filter and categorize their content. Using “GFWatch”, researchers tested 534 million distinct domains from April to December 2020, accessing around 411 million domains on a daily basis, and sorted out about 311,000 domains currently blocked by the China's Great Firewall, in which 40% of them are newly registered domains. The most frequently blocked ones include commercial, pornographic or news media.
Moreover, as the pandemic grew more intense last year some of the COVID-19 related websites are also banned, such as covid-19truth.info. In addition, some domains are accidentally blocked for name similarity with intentionally block sites. For instant, bookreddit.com is also blocked when the Chinese authorities blocks reddit.com, which make Chinese students hard to use those online resources for learning.
Source: Unwire.HK #Jul16
https://unwire.hk/2021/07/16/gfwblockage/fun-tech
#China #Firewall #Internet #Censorship #Pornographic #GFWatch #COVID19 #Reddit #LearningResources
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「中國防火長城」封鎖 31 萬個網站 商業、色情、新聞媒體類佔大多數
最近有外國大學組成研究團隊，對「中國防火長城」進行研究。透過採用自身開發的「GFWatch」的系統，審視現時中國網絡封鎖的情況。 研究小組指出，現時「中國防火長城」的機制會先封鎖新註冊的網站，然後再由當局為這些網站進行過濾和分類。據研究數據顯示，「GFWatch」在 2020 年 4 月到 12