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China’s COVID-19 response: A year of ‘government secrecy and top-down control’
China’s initial failure to respond quickly to COVID-19 as it emerged in Wuhan was due to a “political logjam,” the New York Times reports. But the AP reveals that political controls have only tightened in the time since, with new research on the origins of COVID-19 monitored and subject to approval by a task force set up by Xi Jinping.
China sentences citizen journalist to four years in prison for challenging COVID-19 response narrative
Zhang Zhan, a freelance video journalist who documented the early days of Wuhan’s lockdown and criticized the government’s response, was convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
More than just censorship: How China shaped public sentiment in the early days of COVID
The Chinese government hired private companies to “flood social sites with distracting chatter,” among other tactics to tamp down public outrage during the worst parts of the coronavirus epidemic in China.
‘Thank God, the vaccine is now available’: China makes inroads abroad with COVID-19 diplomacy
Western countries have begun rollouts of vaccines from firms like Pfizer and Moderna. But from Latin America to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, leaders hope that Chinese companies like Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm hold the key to curbing COVID-19.
China begins mass distribution of COVID vaccines
Countries including Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, and Chile are clamoring for doses of CoronaVac, the vaccine candidate made by Sinovac Biotech. Meanwhile, the maker of another of China’s leading vaccine candidates, Sinopharm, applied last month for market approval.
China has given experimental COVID-19 vaccines to one million people
Five Chinese coronavirus vaccines are in Phase 3 clinical trials, but China has not waited for trials to be complete to inject about one million people since July. Preliminary data suggests that China’s vaccines may be less inoculating than those by Pfizer and Moderna.
The 14 sins of Australia: Beijing expands list of grievances and digs in for extended diplomatic dispute
The Chinese embassy in Australia shared a detailed list of 14 grievances that Beijing has against the country, extending far beyond China’s core interests and directly criticizing internal Australian affairs.
Beijing lists grievances against Australia, giving warning to other countries with tense China relations
After months of vague accusations that Australia had broken “mutual trust” with China, Beijing has made explicit a list of grievances with the country.
How COVID-19 has — and hasn’t — changed Chinese students’ plans for international education
In a world upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese students are rethinking their education choices. And the decisions they made this year are bound to have far-reaching implications not only for universities in foreign countries, but also for higher education in China, where some say systemic reform is long overdue.
China issues temporary travel bans for six countries as COVID-19 spikes in Europe
Chinese embassies in at least six countries — Belgium, France, the U.K., India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines — have said that non-Chinese citizens are temporarily banned from coming to China.
Beijing continues to punish Australia, hobble WHO to prevent independent COVID-19 investigation
China is heightening its barriers to Australian imports in a pressure campaign that began in April, after Australia started to call for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. Meanwhile, Beijing is working to limit the independence of an expected WHO-led team.
China reports over 100 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases linked to Xinjiang garment factory
After a 17-year-old garment factory worker in Kashgar, Xinjiang tested positive for COVID-19, authorities quickly tested all 4.75 million residents of the Kashgar area, finding 164 cases, all without symptoms.
China to test nine million Qingdao residents after 12 COVID-19 cases detected
A small COVID-19 cluster has emerged in Qingdao, China, breaking the country’s nearly two-month streak of no locally transmitted symptomatic cases. All nine million Qingdao residents will be screened for the virus this week in response.
China joins global coronavirus vaccine distribution initiative that Trump shunned
Filling yet another void in global leadership left by President Trump, China said that it had joined COVAX, the World Health Organization–backed program to fund and coordinate the equitable global distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Trump revives effort to shift blame for COVID-19 failures, calling the disease ‘Chinese Plague’
With less than four weeks until the election, Trump is again ramping up his efforts to blame China for his failure to contain the coronavirus. Polls indicate that voters will not buy this.
China might be weeks away from a COVID-19 vaccine
China has already vaccinated vast numbers of essential workers and state-owned enterprise employees without a conventional clinical trial process. As soon as this month, however, Beijing may give official approval to a clinically tested vaccine, and begin public rollout in November.
‘People are hyped up,’ but how many Chinese Americans will vote in an election like no other?
With U.S.-China relations worsening and Trump blaming a “China plague” for ruining the economy, Chinese immigrant communities are more engaged in this election than ever. Whether that translates into voting, however, remains to be seen.
Censoring a pandemic — the banned words of WeChat
China has censored private messages and public posts on WeChat since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report looks at what words have been verboten.
China has been vaccinating essential workers since July 22
China, under an emergency use authorization, has vaccinated an unspecified number of essential workers outside of clinical trials since July 22, a top health official revealed. At the same time, clinical trials for China’s four COVID-19 vaccine candidates are expanding overseas.
When will China roll out a COVID-19 vaccine? Which countries will get it?
Four vaccines developed by Chinese companies have moved on to Phase 3 trials, accounting for half of the global candidates at that final stage of human testing before approval.
