WeChat Censorship Tightens with Chinese State Media Articles Containing Sensitive Words Blocked Too, Says University of Toronto Study

A report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab released this week shows that censorship on WeChat has been tightened. The lab tracked changes to WeChat’s list of censored words between this January and May. It was found that over 2,000 words relating to the pandemic have been marked sensitive and blocked. An article by the state media, too, would disappear from the platform if it contains any of those sensitive words, shwoing that the freedom of expression on WeChat is even more limited than that allowed by the state media.

As WeChat censors contents on a remote server, it was not possible for the researchers to understand how the censorship works by inspecting the codes. What they did instead was to create three dummy accounts with one Chinese and two Canadian numbers. They then started a group conversation where they shared Chinese-language articles from media organizations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. By observing which articles were blocked, they identified the words deemed sensitive by WeChat.

The study reveals that more than 2,000 words relating to the Wuhan virus pandemic were blocked by WeChat between this January and May, even if they came in an article by the state media. That WeChat banned certain topics allowed by the state-controlled media is a sign that it adheres to an even more stringent standard.

The investigation shows how WeChat has manipulated the narrative on the pandemic from the start. It was found that back when Wuhan was placed under lockdown, WeChat was already blocking texts containing the name of the whistle-blower Li Wenliang. Reports of the Chinese authorities informing the US of the outbreak as early as on 3 January were also blocked. Articles containing the terms “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” and “SARS-CoV-2”, too, were banned from being circulated.

As the epidemic spread to the rest of world in March, WeChat began blocking articles mentioning such international organizations as the WHO and the Red Cross and those that dealt with outbreaks in countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, and the UK. Articles containing keywords about the US and international relations were also banned.

#UniversityOfToronto #UofT #CitizenLab #China #WeChat #Censorship #Pandemic #WuhanVirus #Coronavirus #LiWenliang

Source: Apple Daily #Aug29

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#Interview

French-based Hongkonger, went through 51 hours of bitterness to fly back for voting

(16 Aug) As she wants to remain anonymous, we will call her Anonyme, a female artist who was born in Hong Kong.  The art industry is not appreciated in Hong Kong, but it is well perceived in France. At the end of February this year, she arrived in France and lived there for five months. The art village provided food and accommodation, and the government provided monthly living expenses.  What’s more exciting is that she met a local boy and they were flirting. However, she didn’t want to go into detail, “Maybe people are talking about me colluding with foreign forces.  I don't want to be accused of colluding with a foreign penis." She vowed that she would not leave unless there was an election. if there is, she will go through all the troubles to fulfill her civil duty - vote for the legislative councils.

//There were a lot of people at the line-up, and I begged every single one of them to let me go first.

//“You (Carrie Lam) said the Hongkongers are not cooperating? It seems that you are the one who doesn't want to cooperate. Look at me, how well I am cooperating and desperately risking my life to return to vote to fulfill my civic duty!”

//Carrie Lam takes away my legal rights!

//the Paris Municipales election at the end of June... Voting happened as usual during the epidemic, while the local government warned of health risks. 

//Whether or not to cancel should be decided by all Hong Kong voters and those who participated in the election.

//It took her 51 hours to go from her Paris residence to her home in Hong Kong.

//Seems like I went to outer space for five months and now my hometown was lost.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/French-based-Hongkonger-went-through-51-hours-of-bitterness-to-fly-back-for-voting-09-10

Source: Apple Daily
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#LegcoElection2020 #Coronavirus #France

#Newspaper

Chinese media's disclosure that Wuhan Pneumonia vaccine may increase severity retracted in less than a day

(31 Aug) On 30 August, Yicai Media published a report titled "Exclusive evidence: COVID-19 vaccine may cause aggravated immune response". An anonymous expert from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center told the media, "our latest study found that ADE [antibody-dependent enhancement] exists and its prevalence is not low. The results of relevant studies are awaiting publication."

The expert admitted, "COVID-19 presents a risk of ADE, which will be a challenge for the vaccine but it will depend on the specific antigen it uses." He also claimed that earlier this month, the Center for Drug Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration released the "(Preliminary) Guidelines for the Clinical Evaluation of Prophylactic COVID-19 vaccination", which did not mention the risk of ADE in vaccines. The reality is that many countries have continually deliberated on the ADE issue in COVID-19. As of yet, no in-depth studies exist in the world. He is unsure if his team's findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals. The report from Yicai Media was deleted a day after [its publication].

ADE is the acronym for "antibody-dependent enhancement". The presence of ADE means that after inoculation, the immune response in a portion of the population would exacerbate the disease. As the second wave of the Wuhan Pneumonia sweeps the globe, a man from Reno*, Nevada in the US is re-infected with symptoms much worse than the first time. Although it is still uncertain whether the "ADE phenomenon" caused it, scientists warn that if the Wuhan Pneumonia virus produces ADE, the mortality risk of the second wave will be much higher.

Editor's Note:
* The original article incorrectly states that the man's name is Reno.

Source: Itn
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#ADE #ChineseVaccine #Coronavirus

Chinese Virologist: SARS-CoV-2 Genome is Genetically Manipulated; Coronavirus comes from Military Research Laboratories

Yan Meng-li, a Chinese virologist who used to work at the University of Hong Kong before fleeing to the United States, released a pre-print paper with her research team under the affiliation of Rule of Law Society & Rule of Law Foundation in New York.

The title of the paper is entitled "Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of its Probably Synthetic Route.”

Yan told Fox News earlier that her colleagues at the University of Hong Kong ignored her research. Academic papers with similar topics have been effectively censored.

This non-peer-reviewed report of Yan and her team concluded the following:

// 1. If it [coronavirus SARS-CoV-2] was a laboratory product, the most critical element in its creation, the backbone/template virus (ZC45/ZXC21), is owned by military research laboratories.

2. The genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 has likely undergone genetic engineering, through which the virus has gained the ability to target humans with enhanced virulence and infectivity.

3. The characteristics and pathogenic effects of SARS-CoV-2 are unprecedented.

The virus is highly transmissible, onset-hidden, multi-organ targeting, sequelae-unclear, lethal, and associated with various symptoms and complications.

4. SARS-CoV-2 caused a world-wide pandemic, taking hundreds of thousands of lives and shutting down the global economy. It has a destructive power like no other. //

The research team urges for an immediate independent audit of the P4 laboratories run by the Chinese government-controlled Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the laboratories of their close collaborators.

Source: Taiwan News; Zenodo #Sept14
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4009390

#Covid19 #WuhanPneumonia #WuhanLaboratory #Coronavirus #Pandemic #YanMengLi

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Yan Limeng and team's Pre-print Academic Paper:
https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X2DPTWhKiUn

Unscientific and Unethical, Says US Expert as Chinese Pharma Pushes Wuhan Virus Vaccine Not Fully Tested

The Chinese pharmaceutical CanSino was reported to have been negotiating with several countries for urgent approval of the use of its Wuhan virus vaccine, which is still in phase 3 trials. Public health experts have voiced concerns as the vaccine has yet to be fully tested for its safety and effectiveness on a mass scale. They stressed that the experimentation and the trials must be transparent and that CanSino must disclose data concerning the vaccine’s trials in the Chinese military.

A senior manager at CanSino revealed to The Wall Street Journal that the pharma was negotiating with several countries, requesting emergency approval for the use of its experimental Wuhan virus vaccine before its phase 3 trials are completed. If approved, the early-stage vaccine will be in use globally for the first time, with health professionals and essential workers like soldiers and police officers being the first to get the shot.

Public health experts worry that despite the new evidence indicating the vaccine’s effectiveness and safety, it is highly risky to put it to public use before large-scale trials are completed. Dr Amesh A. Adalja, a senior expert at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security, said there is some data showing the vaccine’s effectiveness and safety following its trials in the Chinese military. “It is crucial, however, to use the vaccine in accordance with the data obtained at Phase 3 clinical trials,” he added. “Its effectiveness can be determined only in an environment where many people are exposed to the virus, and it is necessary to look into a better sample group to know if the vaccine is safe.” CanSino, he said, should disclose the data obtained at trials in the military to reassure the public.

Pierre Armand Morgon, Senior Vice President for International Business of CanSino, said giving several million people the vaccine before the clinical trials conclude helps ascertain its safety and effectiveness and create a database of safety information. Morgon declined to name all of the countries the pharma is in talks with, saying only that they include Pakistan, Latin American countries and a number of developed countries. None of them has approved the vaccine for use, he said.

Source: Apple Daily #Aug29

#China #CanSino #WuhanVirus #Coronavirus #COVID19 #Pandemic #Vaccine #Ethics

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#Newspaper

Beijing hoses down its own vaccine propaganda

//mass vaccination would be unnecessary, as long as citizens keep wearing masks and maintain a safe distance from others in public venues.

//Beijing may have spread its propaganda too far and now must tell its people they would not need vaccines because their availability may not meet popular expectations.

//“Beijing may have realized that it can neither ensure absolute safety and effectiveness of its vaccines or ratchet up production in short order, so now it has to ask people like Gao to manage people’s expectations,”

//A colleague of Gao at CDC told state broadcaster China Central Television on Tuesday (September 15) that ordinary Chinese people can expect to get their shots as early as November.

//In August, Communist Party mouthpiece Guangming Daily quoted Liu Jingzhen, president of China National Pharmaceutical Crop (SinoPharm), as saying that the company, the largest state-owned drugmaker, could only turn out 200-300 million doses a year. 

//That output will fall short of domestic demand, not to mention Beijing’s pledges to donate vaccines to several Southeast Asian and African nations.

//in August Xinhua said in a feature story that the nation’s annual output would hit a billion doses.

//Hong Kong’s government has unveiled a scheme to procure doses for twice the entire city’s population. The city has reportedly budgeted more than HK$8.4 billion ($1 billion) for no less than 16.5 million doses from a wide swath of suppliers across mainland China and the West. 

Full article: Asia Times, (18-Sep)

#Vaccine #China #ChineseVaccine #Coronavirus

China’s Diplomatic Offensive Sees Major Setback as Discontent Grows in Europe, Says New York Times

With Sino-US relations having remained tense in recent years, Beijing has arranged for its foreign minister Wang Yi to visit Europe in August in what was said to be an attempt to show goodwill to Europe and strike a new balance in international relations. But a New York Times commentary said more and more European countries are voicing dissatisfaction at China’s trade tactics, policies towards Hong Kong and Taiwan, human rights record, and other issues. The growing discontent, it said, has seriously undermined China’s diplomatic offensive in Europe.

Steven Lee Myers, head of The New York Times’ Beijing bureau, pointed out that while China believes Europe, given its pragmatism, could play a stabilizing role as Sino-US relations deteriorate, Europe’s changing perception of China poses a major challenge for the Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Myers wrote, “In the short term, it threatens to undermine the country’s post-pandemic economic recovery by stifling new investments as the United States restricts them, especially in high tech. In the longer term, it could blunt his ambitions for China to offer an alternative to the United States as the global leader dictating the rules for governance and trade.”

Myers sees China’s authoritarian system as representing very different political values from those of Europe, noting that the same goes for the new National Security Law in Hong Kong, which “has been used to crack down on dissent in the semiautonomous territory.” Janka Oertel, director of the Asian programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said similarly that “[i]t makes it really hard for [China] to convey a message of cooperation and peacefulness and harmonious society, if at the same time you see schoolgirls being beaten up by the Hong Kong police.”

Europe’s dissatisfaction at China’s policies has become even more pronounced amid the Wuhan virus pandemic. China’s attempt to conceal its mishandling of the outbreak in the beginning and its subsequent ‘mask diplomacy’, which exposed the poor quality of its protective gear and medical supplies, have had a knock-on effect on attitudes towards China, especially in the Netherlands and Spain. According to the results of last week’s ECFR poll, only 7% of Europeans see China as a useful partner in the fight against the pandemic with 62% of the respondents viewing China negatively.

Sources: Apple Daily #Sep18

#Europe #US #HK #China #NewYorkTimes #NationalSecurityLaw #NSL #WuhanVirus #Coronavirus #Pandemic #COVID19 #Diplomacy

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Outgoing US Ambassador to China Criticizes Beijing for Covering up Wuhan Virus Epidemic

The outgoing American ambassador to China Terry Branstad condemned Beijing’s initial handling of the Wuhan virus outbreak in an interview with CNN on 18 September, noting that “what could have been contained in Wuhan ended up becoming a worldwide pandemic.” He agreed with Trump that China was responsible for the pandemic, saying that the “Chinese system was such that they covered it up and even penalized the doctors who pointed it out at the beginning.”

Source: Apple Daily #Sep18

#US #China #TerryBranstad #WuhanVirus #Coronavirus #Pandemic #COVID19 #Diplomacy

https://bit.ly/3cBBjF7

American-Chinese Writer Slammed as “Pro-American Traitor” on Internet, Says China Uses Her in Propaganda

American-Chinese writer Fan Jiayang has recently taken to Twitter to fight for a waiver that would allow private nurses to care for her mother, suffering from ALS, at the hospital during the epidemic. The incident was widely reported and hotly debated in China with Fan being slammed by Chinese netizens as a “traitor”, “worshipping America,” and “bringing shame to her extended family.” In a New Yorker article, Fan tells the story of how she and her mother have been used by China in its propaganda.

In her article “How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda,” Fan says she was born in Chongqing, China in 1984. When she was two years old, her father was sent to the US to study biology at Harvard University. At the age of eight, she followed her mother, who was a doctor, to America to reunite with him.

A year and a half after Fan arrived in the US, her father had an affair and left her and her mother. To provide Fan with the best education possible, her mother moved to Greenwich, Connecticut to work as a domestic helper in an affluent neighbourhood—just so her daughter could attend a public school and receive a scholarship to attend a prestigious school. Having been through the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution in China, her mother, as Fan describes, developed her survival instincts out of a “brutal, unsentimental pragmatism.”

Fan eventually graduated from Williams College, became a writer for The New Yorker, and moved to New York City with her mother. In 2011, her mother, then 59, was diagnosed with ALS, which left her paralysed and hospitalized for an extended period of time. Since 2014, she has been unable to breathe on her own and relied on a ventilator at all times. Fan hired a round-the-clock caregiver to take care of her mother. Communication with her would now have to depend on blinking and letter boards.

When the Wuhan virus pandemic broke out in New York City this March, the Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital, where Fan’s mother was staying, banned visitors like Fan, who now had to rely on the caregiver to care for her mother. As a patient was diagnosed with the virus, the hospital expelled everyone other than medical workers on 9 April. The caregiver Fan hired was among those asked to leave.

Fan then gave a detailed account of the incident on Twitter, stressing that her mother required exclusive care, and posted photos of the situation at the hospital. This drew the attention of a number of legislators in New York. With the help of various people, Fan’s caregiver was able to return to the hospital the following day to continue taking care of her mother.

Fan’s story was soon widely reported in China. The Global Times, a state-run media outlet, said Fan had been targeted by the protesters when covering the demonstrations in Hong Kong for The New Yorker last year. The tabloid then said she described her Chinese-looking face as a “liability” on Twitter following the assignment. Other reports said that Fan’s articles endorsed the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and that she has “misattributed the origin of the virus to China.” Fan was attacked by a large number of Chinese netizens on WeChat, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, who criticized her for being a traitor and making a living by slandering the motherland. They hurled at her such slurs as “NMSL” (“your mother is dead”) and threatened to burn, rape and abuse her. A photo of Fan and her mother also circulated on the Internet, where netizen China15z0dj wrote, “Your mother’s gonna die, haha. The 1.4 billion of us wish you a reunion with her in hell, haha.”

Source: Apple Daily #Sep12

#US #HK #China #FanJiayang #TheNewYorker #Internet #Propaganda #WuhanVirus #Coronavirus #Pandemic #COVID19

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#Coronavirus #Border
Mainland Chinese Woman Awaiting Deportation in Hong Kong is Found Postive for Covid After Contacting 23 Officers

According to the Health authorities in Hong Kong, on November 1, they found 7 imported cases of Covid19 in the city.

Among them, a 42-year-old mainland woman awaiting deportation was found positive with Covid-19. The woman was arrested on October 28 during an anti-prostitution operation.

The police said 23 officers were in contact with her and four officers need to be quarantined, due to close contact.

Source: RTHK #Nov1
Image: Cupid News

#Deportation #quarantine

#Coronavirus #FailedState
Carrie Lam boasts care for mainland Chinese, ignoring potential coronavirus outbreak in schools after students visited popular tourist spots among mainlanders

Source: Apple Daily #Nov10; RTHK #Nov6

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Carrie Lam boasts care for mainland Chinese, ignoring potential coronavirus outbreak in schools after students visited popular tourist spots among mainlanders

Chief Executive Carrie Lam summarised her trip to Beijing, reassuring mainland Chinese citizens that the present 14-days quarantine arrangement would only be lifted when the precondition of protecting people's health was met.

She even went on stressing that her administration will neither put local economic benefits nor Hong Kong residents' appeal above health concerns of mainland Chinese citizens.

The compulsory 14-days quarantine arrangement, however, is set to be relaxed to give way to the launch of "Leave Home Safe" app which records people's whereabouts and notify them if they have visited a place which is subsequently linked to a Covid-19 infection.

Testing public response, Chief Secretary for Administration Cheung Kin Chung mentioned that the App will be launched alongside a series of exemptions for residents returning from Guangdong Province or Macau from compulsory 14-days quarantine. Cheung also highlighted details of implementation of “Travel Bubble” in the next few days.

In past few days, number of COVID-19 imported cases continued to increase in Hong Kong, while an invisible transmission chain appeared in Tai Po. In a primary school in Kowloon Tong, 65 children have been infected with respiratory tract infections. The school received calls from parents who said they had taken their children to Ocean Park, Disneyland and Music Farm last week, popular tourist spots among mainland visitors in Hong Kong.

Source: RTHK #Nov6; Apple Daily #Nov10
#COVID19 #School

Hundreds of People Protested Against the Push for Chinese Vaccination in Brazil São Paulo

More than 300 people demonstrated in the central business district of São Paolo, the biggest city in Brazil, on Sunday local times (Nov 1), opposing the measures suggested by the state governor João Doria on the universal COVID-19 vaccination, as well as opposing the authorities on the use of vaccines from a Chinese company Sinovac Biotech.

Protest participants expressed support for President Jair Bolsonaro, who opposed the use of Chinese vaccines. Some even viewed João Doria as China’s ambassador, forcing them to take the Chinese vaccines.

Doria earlier stated that as long as the vaccines were available and sufficient, he planned to force the citizens of São Paolo to vaccinate. However, President Bolsonaro indicated earlier that vaccination was only voluntary. Reports stated that the local Supreme Court would make a verdict on the issue later.

Source: Stand News #Nov02

#Wuhan #Coronavirus #COVID19 #COVID #SaoPaolo #Brazil #JoaoDoria #Doria #JairBolsonaro #Bolsonaro #Vaccines #ChineseVaccine #SinovacBiotech

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#PressFreedom #RightoKnow
Journalist Unions Condemn HK Government for Limiting the Right to Know, As Press Briefing Goes Online Without Consultation

On Jan 3, 2021, the Hong Kong government's Department of Health suddenly announced that, in order to "reduce risk of spreading the coronavirus", the daily COVID press briefing will be held as a live broadcast beginning on Jan 4, 2021. All questions by the press would only be accepted in written format.

The Hong Kong Journalists Association and 8 other press unions issued a statement later that evening, criticizing the government's intention to filter and avoid sensitive questions and infringe the journalists’ right to raise further questions and the public’s right to know.

The journalists' associations also demanded the government to revert the decision and hold the press briefing as the way it used to be.

In the statement, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) together with other unions that represented Stand News, RTHK, hkCNews, Next Digital, Mingpao, the Independent Commentators Association, and the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association criticised the government's unreasonable and sudden decision before consulting the press.

They worried that sensitive questions would be filtered and avoided from now on, further eroding the freedom of the press in Hong Kong.

Source: Stand News #Jan3

#FailedState #Coronavirus #PressBriefing #Whitewash

Wuhan lockdown diarist Fang Fang on writing to preserve the truth

Chinese novelist Fang Fang, the pen name of Wang Fang, was in a funk when she decided to become the unofficial chronicler of life under coronavirus-included lockdown in Wuhan, where the virus was first discovered in December 2019.

Fang Fang criticised local officials’ early mistakes and cover-ups, aspects of the response the Chin­ese Communist party has since airbrushed out of the official narrative. Her descriptions of chaotic events also elicited sympathy for the people of her city, in a tacit rebuke of rightwing commentators in the US who labelled the disease the “Wuhan virus”. Her posts were translated into English and collected as a book, Wuhan Diary. The April announcement of its publication sparked on­line abuse as leftists in China accused her of “handing a knife to foreigners” and spreading “distorted values”.

She has stuck to her criticisms of the Wuhan authorities, even as the party intensified efforts to spin its response as an unblemished success.

Source: FT #Dec04

https://www.ft.com/content/a8995095-7379-4e01-8070-2a54d4b47180?fbclid=IwAR0z3EvrsqivaKNPfrRvf9rrrGfyudlb_KhCjNCQrryAoI0pziYWVziYd_M

#Wuhan #China #Covid19 #Coronavirus #WuhanPneumonia #FangFangDiary

#PoliceState #LockDown
Only less than 2% police officers deployed in support of the City’s first district lockdown, far less than officers involved in PR campaign

On January 23, 2021, Hong Kong government willfully locked down four main locations in Yau Ma Tei and Jordan to carry out compulsory COVID19 test. Over 1,000 officers from five enforcement units were involved in this operation.

Based on media reports and further information that Stand News collected directly from HK Police Force, it showed that only 600 officers (1.67%) of the 35,000-strong Police Force were deployed.

This was even less than the officers took part in the production of the Force’s latest advertising video and the least, in proportion to its total staff, among five enforcement units involved in the operation.

All Bureau heads of the five enforcement units visited the lock-down location. The Director of Immigration mentioned that 300 officers were deployed. The Correctional Services Department said 230, while the Fire Services and the Customs & Excise deployed 650 and 350 staff respectively.

Source: Stand News, #Jan25

#Coronavirus #AsiasFinest #DisciplinaryForce #WuhanPneumonia

#Opinion

China wants the United States to be generous and share the coronavirus vaccines worldwide; China’s hypocritical and rascal acts to shift focus on their responsibility of spreading the coronavirus epidemic

//On the weekend after G20 meeting, leaders from each country gave a speech through the internet meeting and mostly discussed the rebound of the epidemic happening around the world. During Xi Jinping’s speech, he talked through his hat as usual and stated that he fully supports vaccine development and for the vaccine to become public assets in the future, so those poor countries could also get the vaccine. He even suggested developing an international health code cell-phone app for healthy people to travel around the world, to speed up the recovery of the global economy.

//Health codes are QR codes app that is currently implementing in Mainland China, storing all personal health data and location information in the mobile phone so that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Government can track one’s location.

//Even if a person is not concerned about personal’s privacy, one should worry about the credibility of China’s virus testing. If the virus testing has a false result, it would lead to many falsely diagnosed patients traveling around the world, repeating the tribulation of China exporting the coronavirus. The world needs to remember in early 2020, China tried to conceal the in-country epidemic; when it could not be hidden anymore, CCP repeatedly emphasized that the virus was similar to flu and condemned those countries that prohibited the entry of Chinese citizens as an act of racialism, resulting in many Chinese patients exported the virus over the world. China is the origin of the coronavirus epidemic.

//Other countries may not do well in controlling the epidemic, but it cannot counteract the responsibility of China creating the epidemic. It is the same as a fireman being unable to control the mountain fire effectively, but ignore the criminal liability of the arsonist who caused the fire.

//If China really cares about poor countries for not getting the vaccines, why don’t China purchase the vaccines for the countries from the United States? The Chinese government had also been telling the world that the vaccines developed in China were very effective and safe, even releasing them before the US. Since the Chinese vaccines are that good, why don’t the China government distribute them to poor countries for free?

//The Chinese pharmaceutical factories had never published their research and testing data on the vaccines.

Full Translation Here: Hong Kong Echo

Source: The Stand News

#China #Coronavirus #Vaccines #Blame #Pressure

#China uses #coronavirus warning app to stifle #dissent

//China's #COVID19 warning app enables health authorities to move quickly against a virus outbreak. But it seems officials also use the app to stop perfectly healthy people from doing what Beijing doesn't want them to do. And the target is dissidents.//

Watch the video:
https://www.dw.com/en/china-uses-coronavirus-warning-app-to-stifle-dissent/av-62501253

Source: DW #Jul17

#HealthCode #MassSurveillance #Beijing #Authoritarianism