The World Health Organisation has been left deeply embarrassed after a television interview in which Dr Bruce Aylward, who was the co-lead of WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China, refused to acknowledge any questions he was asked about Taiwan’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Dr Aylward first says he cannot hear the question when asked “Will […]
An amusing little tidbit, and a useful follow up and riposte to Gordon Brown’s call this morning for a one world government to tackle the global crisis. The G7, the group of the world’s seven most powerful economies, has been in talks over the last few days about a global response to the Coronavirus, but […]
The U.S. Ambassador to the Britain, Woody Johnson, has blamed China for the spread of the coronavirus, saying it ‘tried to suppress’ the emergence of the bug and accusing the Chinese government of seeking to “stonewall international health authorities that were offering assistance, requesting access and seeking more information”. “[T]he People’s Republic of China has […]
The right to privacy is something that any democratic government should respect and defend, rather than ignore or even destroy, as the government of China appears to be doing.
It seems the coming days will determine how Taiwan is remembered in the fight against Covid-19.
Showing no respect for social distancing, the drunk elephants fell asleep in a nearby tea garden, happy to have found more than they bargained for at the farm.
It is universally accepted that the Coronavirus outbreak that has shut down the western world originated in the city of Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province. It is less universally, but still generally, accepted that the virus made its way into humans via an animal sold at one of that city’s disgusting wet markets – probably […]
It is now readily acknowledged that China, through a series of unprecedented and restrictive public health and quarantine measures ‘bought the world some time’ in the global fight against Covid-19. Most of those actions would not have been possible in western democracies, relying as they did for their implementation on the authoritarian nature of the […]
For anyone interested, as softies like me are, in wildlife conservation and protection, the People’s Republic of China has long been the world’s greatest and most abominable villain. Nearly all of the poaching of endangered species in Africa, for example, is carried out to meet the demands of the Chinese market. Rhinoceros are regularly shot, […]
His whereabouts remain unclear after friends reported Mr. Ren as missing on Saturday, with police offering no comment on the matter.
The ugly spectre of China’s grim illegal organ trade reared its head again this week with the publication of the final judgment of the London Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting in China. This coincided with front page headlines in most national world newspapers on Tuesday trumpeting China’s first double lung transplant on a coronavirus victim. The patient, […]
Britain and France declare war on China; It is the second major war in the Opium Wars, fought over issues relating to the exportation of opium to China, and resulted in a second defeat for the Qing dynasty. The First Opium War began in 1839 and was fought over illegal opium trade, financial reparations and […]