Category: Thinking About China

Seven Facts About Virus Research in Wuhan: China Should End Gain-of-Function Research

May 26, 2021
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Commentary On May 24, the Wall Street Journal published seven key sets of facts that demonstrate that Wuhan virologists, who claim to have been conducting analyses that would help develop vaccines for a then-non-existent pandemic, might have taken undue risk through gain-of-function research or lax lab safety standards, that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic that killed…

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China Has a Problem With New Working Hands and Minds

May 26, 2021
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Commentary The Middle Kingdom’s population is aging. It has fewer young people to replace the retiring older generation, the one that manned the machinery of China’s huge advances since Deng Xiaoping abandoned Mao Zedong’s economic model. This demographic challenge presents China’s economy with a huge challenge. The problem is one of Beijing’s own making. It…

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Wuhan Gain-of-Function Research and Lies: US Should Declassify Info Now

May 26, 2021
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Commentary New details about China’s inadequately-regulated gain-of-function virology research, and factual omissions by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which secretly collaborated with China’s military, are sufficiently concerning as to require that first, scientific collaboration with the totalitarian country should cease, and second, President Biden should immediately declassify information on the source of the virus. The…

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Dr. Fauci Makes the Case for Investigation of Wuhan Lab

May 26, 2021
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Commentary Dr. Anthony Fauci recently told reporters he is “not convinced” that COVID-19 developed naturally. Then on Monday, the chief White House medical advisor contended it was “highly likely” that the virus “occurred naturally before spreading from animal to human.” In similar style on March 28, Fauci told Margaret Brennan of CBS News that “there…

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China’s Snub of US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Is Our Problem, and Beijing’s

May 25, 2021
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Commentary U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has repeatedly requested, since Biden’s presidency, a meeting with China’s top military officer, only to be rebuffed, according to information revealed by U.S. defense officials in a May 21 Financial Times report. Beijing’s snub of Mr. Austin is being interpreted by some, optimistically, as a petty bureaucratic rivalry….

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China’s Fake Friend: Russia

May 25, 2021
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Commentary China’s top jet-setting-diplomat-who-flies-beneath-the-radar, Yang Jiechi, arrived in Moscow on Monday to talk security with the Kremlin. The Financial Times calls this “the latest sign of deepening ties between Beijing and Moscow.” But I call it baloney. After 116,000 Russian COVID-19 deaths and counting, Putin should be seething beneath that thin smile. Add to that…

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Hungary Embraces China’s Belt & Road, Undermining Efforts to Curtail Human Rights Abuses

May 25, 2021
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News Analysis As the free world unites to condemn and penalize the human rights violations and aggressive expansion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), one European country is moving against the tide. Hungary has demonstrated a firm pro-CCP stance in a series of recent events, after the European Union, the United States, the UK, and…

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Uncontrolled Chinese Rockets May Also Target the Moon

May 24, 2021
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Commentary China apparently plans to cause recurrent waves of panic by launching uncontrolled rockets that threaten people on Earth, and soon, also on the Moon. At first, Chinese space officials thought that the country’s 20-ton Long March-5 booster stage would impact in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on May 9, causing concern in Israel, but it…

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The Dual Faces of Sino-Russian Relations

May 24, 2021
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Commentary Two recent events reveal the duality of the relationship between China and Russia. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony of the biggest nuclear energy cooperation project between the two countries via video conferencing on May 19. Putin claimed that current Sino-Russian relations are at their best, while Xi said that the two countries…

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New Evidence of Sick Wuhan Lab Researchers: Probe the Lab Now

May 24, 2021
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Commentary Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab researchers went to the hospital in November 2019 with symptoms consistent with both seasonal flu and COVID-19, according to a U.S. intelligence report newly revealed by the Wall Street Journal on May 23. Three of the researchers were sufficiently sick to seek hospital care, according to the report….

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