#Chinas

Six questions for Xi Jinping, US edition: 1. What exactly was going on in Wuhan that led to the initial emergence of SARS-CoV-2?https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/06/opinion/chinas-three-body-problem/ 2. How big a role did the
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3. After it became clear that there was a full-blown epidemic spreading from Wuhan to the rest of Hubei province, why did you cut off travel from Hubei to the
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Over the weekend, 20,000 people were packed in like sardines at the Huangshan Mountains...during the midst of a global pandemic...that China started.The government even waived admission fees to encourage more
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The latest TDS talking point is that the @WHO is actually the good guy in all this. A quick trip down memory lane for how @WHO has pushed Chinese propaganda
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Excellent @S_Rabinovitch article in the Economist.h/t @andrewbatson https://www.economist.com/china/2020/05/07/a-slump-exposes-holes-in-chinas-welfare-state Good thread as well(am a bit late to this)https://twitter.com/S_Rabinovitch/status/1258564245
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While @DrTedros complains because he was called something mean online, this is a Chinese (government supported) cartoon on how to treat foreigners. Blatantly Racist yet nobody from @WHO has spoken
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Some good recent research on Chinese data reliability: the basic conclusion is that the government has consistently falsified official GDP since 2012.But it's also a bit more complicated than that.
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The fall in consumer lending in China in the past two months has been incredibly steep. If this continues, the growth in consumer debt that allowed Chinese consumption to grow
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The world should’ve listened to @WHO, you say? About which point? No human-to-human transmission? A thread with some more guesses, because @WHO certainly said some things, just not sure any
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china has already tested their vaccine on their own citizens and it's gonna be used in emergency situations starting this month. this post is confusing people in the comments because
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Thread: Adding Ant to the entity list is a terrible idea. If the bar to harsh US actions against a CN company is simply global success and innovation, USG plays
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Petit thread pour reprendre la chronologie des choses qui ont transpiré depuis deux ans et demi. Décembre 2017 :https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/943360341618167808 https://www.wsj.com/articles/twelve-days-in-xinjiang-how-chinas-surveillance
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Turns out America's lobster fisheries depend much more on the American market than on trade with China ..."Americans spend more than twice as much on seafood in restaurants as they
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1/4In my opinion the idea that India's future growth depends on whether or not it joins RCEP or other trade agreements is mostly ideological nonsense. Smaller countries can perhaps advance
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Interesting Romney oped.At least on the trade parts, I would guess that most Democrats are pretty close to Romney. New bipartisan consensus? (curious what others think)https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/mitt-romney-cov
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looked back at 1st thing I wrote about COVID, in Jan. Headline "coronavirus will not be the next Black Death", which is true but kind of downplay-y. I *think* the
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