Category: Special Topics

Unprecedented China COVID Surge and White Lung Syndrome

An unprecedented surge of the coronavirus has hit China, with a reported estimate of up to 250 million people being infected in the first three weeks of December. The estimate was provided by an insider officer from the nation’s top health authorities, initially reported by Bloomberg News and Financial Times. One feature of this China…


Chinese Fighter Jet Makes ‘Unsafe Maneuver’ Near US Military Aircraft Over South China Sea: Pentagon

A Chinese fighter jet recently carried out “an unsafe maneuver” while it was close to a U.S. Air Force plane over the South China Sea, forcing the U.S. aircraft to “take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision,” the U.S. military announced on Dec. 29. The encounter on Dec. 21 involved a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy…


Australia to Extradite Former US Marine Pilot for Allegedly Training Chinese Pilots

The Australian federal government has approved a request to extradite a former U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot to the United States where he faces conspiracy charges over allegations he unlawfully exported defence services to China. Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, who held both Australian and American citizenship, was accused of breaking U.S. arms control laws by…


CDC Raises Alert on China, Urges Americans to Reconsider Travel

U.S. health officials are telling Americans to “reconsider travel” to Chinese territory due to the soaring infections in the country. In a travel alert released on Dec. 28, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) flagged China’s mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao as regions where U.S. travelers need to “practice enhanced precaution.” Since the…


EU Declining to Impose Curbs Amid China’s COVID Surge Is ‘Huge Gamble’: Expert

When Milan started testing arrivals from China for COVID amid the country’s explosive virus spread, it found that about half of the travelers on two flights had the virus. That prompted Italy, the first European country to be hit hard by the pandemic in 2020, to impose mandatory COVID testing on all passengers from China…


Italy Mandates COVID Testing of All China Arrivals After Half of Passengers on Two Flights From China to Milan Tested Positive

Italy has ordered mandatory COVID-19 testing of all travelers arriving from China, where the number of cases is surging, the health minister announced on Dec. 28. Despite the COVID outbreak continuing to spread in China, Beijing announced the easing of restrictions on international travel on Tuesday, sparking global concerns. Several other countries, including Japan, India,…


Italy Mandates COVID Testing of All China Arrivals

Italy has ordered mandatory COVID-19 testing of all travelers arriving from China, where the number of cases is surging, the health minister announced on Dec. 28. Despite the COVID outbreak continuing to spread in China, Beijing announced the easing of restrictions on international travel on Tuesday, sparking global concerns. Several other countries, including Japan, India,…


China’s COVID Outbreak Linked to Worldwide Shortage of Over-the-Counter Drugs

News Analysis Amid China’s major COVID-19 outbreak, panic buying of pain relievers and fever medicines has led to shortages in the country and abroad. Experts say the current rate of infections could breed new virus variants and threaten the international community. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sudden move to abandon its zero-COVID policy without a plan forward…


China’s COVID Chaos a ‘Horrible Indictment’ of US Leadership for Emulating CCP Lockdowns: Former White House Adviser

If the world can learn one thing from the COVID chaos in China, it is that “locking down does not work,” said healthcare policy adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. “We don’t even know really the extent of the harms to their population that they inflicted by locking down but we know anecdotally that there were massive…


Podcast Reveals Modern Day Slavery at CCP-Controlled Cobalt Mines in the Congo

A revealing podcast has again brought to light the problem of slavery at Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-owned cobalt mines in the Congo and the hypocrisy of green energy advocates. Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How The Blood of The Congo Powers Our Lives and a visiting Harvard professor, told his host Joe Rogan about his research and…