Commentators say the Internet 2.0. report casts further doubt on the narrative from China about the origins of the virus.
“He who pays the piper and so on.”
In Confucian ethics, social harmony ultimately relies on virtuous citizens rather than sophisticated institutions.
Joy unconfined in the Western media yesterday as China announced that, contrary to western critics who say that the country is entirely self-interested and will never do anything substantive on Climate, they would actually make a big move to save the planet. Starting soon, the country announced, it will no longer fund coal-fired power plants…….. […]
It was originally scheduled for October 2020 but was subsequently postponed several times.
The Memorandum allows for the selection of teachers from China to teach in Irish schools along with a “language advisor if required
Speaking to Portlaoise County Council personnel during his tenure as President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox lauded the EU’s commitment to liberal democracy and its institutions. By contrast, he described in graphic terms the charade that was China’s National Peoples’ Congress. It was, he observed, a bloated assembly of ‘yacking donkeys’ whose brays might be heard […]
A new investigation has questioned the Covid-19 origin story as it was presented by China and retailed by most of the world’s scientific, media and state authorities. Its publication comes as reports from China point to another apparent wave of infections from the Delta variant. The report released by the ranking Republican member of the […]
The introduction of vaccine certification in this country and elsewhere, apart from leading to instinctive revulsion among those not yet inured to greatly increased state curtailments of basic freedoms, has led to comparisons with other systems of control. The requirement for proof of vaccination has been likened to the internal passport system that was in […]
In a surprising development, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has over-ruled objections from China, and has backed a decision to again investigate the possibility that Covid-19 originated in a leak from the Wuhan virology laboratory. The initial finding of a joint investigation by WHO and the Chinese research team was criticised as being inadequate and […]
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has now acknowledged that a prior push to dismiss the possibility that the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from a lab in China had been “premature”. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that the virus, which has caused […]
Despite all the recent troubles with Russia or Belarus, the EU diplomats know well that, as The Economist put it not so long ago, the Taiwan Strait is geopolitically the most challenging part of the world. Any conflict in this area could draw major nuclear power into a war, over an island, which is not […]