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The politicalization of COVID vaccines in Taiwan
A recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Taiwan has exposed flaws in the government’s pandemic response plans. While the ruling Democratic Progressive Party attempts to get things under control, its political enemies are circling.
China accuses G7 of slander and ‘Cold War thinking’ as Biden emphasizes values
The G7 world leaders concluded their first in-person summit since the beginning of the pandemic by criticizing China over several issues, including human rights. They also agreed to compete with China in infrastructure and vaccine distribution in developing countries.
‘The Ark’: Inside a Chinese hospital during COVID-19
Dan Wei’s documentary, filmed during the pandemic, doesn’t put the coronavirus front and center. Instead, it’s an up-close look at Chinese healthcare, as experienced by an elderly patient and her family.
China fights Delta COVID-19 outbreak in Guangzhou with lockdowns and mass testing
The highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19, first identified in India, is proving hard to control in Guangzhou. Like with other localized outbreaks over the past year, China is attempting to isolate the virus by testing nearly every resident in the city — 18 million tests in just three days.
China reaches 40% vaccine coverage, aims for 80% by year-end
In other Chinese vaccine news, Sinovac Biotech becomes the second China-based company to win WHO approval for its shot, and Chinese vaccine makers promise even greater supply for developing countries.
Taiwan accuses China of blocking Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine supply
As a small surge in COVID-19 cases disrupts life in Taiwan, and the island’s vaccine rollout continues slowly, Taiwanese officials blamed China for blocking some of their vaccine supply.
American students at Chinese universities adapt to pandemic fallout
When COVID hit last year, thousands of international students were stranded — both in the U.S. and China. For many of them, it’s been a long road back to where they want to be.
Scientists reconsider accidental lab leak theory as COVID-19 origins remain unclear
While the dominant origins theory for COVID-19 involves a natural source and no laboratories, the exact way that the pandemic began remains unknown. Some prominent scientists are becoming more skeptical of China’s denials of a lab leak, and want to see more records from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
China domestic vaccination campaign roars ahead, now at four times peak U.S. daily rate
True to form for the world’s most populous nation, China is now administering eye-popping numbers of COVID-19 vaccinations. In a span of nine days, 100 million people in China recently received a shot.
China’s ‘butterfly queen’ dominates Chinese swimming nationals
Zhang Yufei dominated at the Chinese National Swimming Championships, winning five gold medals and a silver.
WHO approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use
Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine is the first Chinese-made shot to ever be approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization. The step affirms China’s growing scientific power, but is expected to have limited impact on vaccine supply in the short term.
China offers to help India deal with catastrophic COVID-19 surge
Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, that he is “very concerned” about the surge in COVID-19 cases in India. China is supplying India with oxygen and other critical supplies to deal with the crisis, but bilateral tensions remain high with a still-unresolved border standoff.
U.S. relaxes COVID travel curbs and lets Chinese students back in
Chinese students are allowed to return to classes in the U.S. — but do they want to?
COVID-19 spurs more — and younger — Chinese people to create wills
Death is a taboo subject in China, which means that many Chinese people die intestate, leaving families to fight amongst themselves or to battle bureaucracy to sort out the assets left behind after the death of a loved one. But one organization dedicated to helping Chinese people write wills says the pandemic caused a spike of interest, even from people in their 20s.
China CDC director worries about ‘not high’ vaccine efficacy, but says his remarks were taken out of context
Gao Fu, the director of China’s CDC, suggested mixing vaccines, adding doses, and looking into mRNA technology to improve the efficacy of COVID-19 shots. He later insisted that he wasn’t “admitting” to a low effectiveness of Chinese vaccines.
After inconclusive WHO report, China says next step of COVID origins search should include U.S. military lab
After the WHO released a report that raised more questions than answers about the origins of COVID-19, Beijing pushed back against accusations that it had interfered in the inquiry. The Chinese Foreign Ministry then suggested that the Fort Detrick biological lab in the U.S. should be investigated next.
China approves fifth COVID-19 shot in push to vaccinate half a billion by end of June
With five approved COVID-19 vaccines, China aims to give shots to 40% of its population in the next four months, while also delivering huge amounts of doses to Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico.
U.S., Japan, and Australia to help India compete with China’s vaccine diplomacy
One billion doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be produced in India and distributed to Southeast Asian countries, with the help of the U.S., Japan, and Australia. The initiative, an output of the informal “Quad” alliance, is an attempt to counter Chinese vaccine diplomacy in the region.
American ‘overall opinions’ about China hit record low
According to a new Gallup poll, 79% of Americans now have an unfavorable view of China — more than right after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Pew, meanwhile, found that nine-in-ten Americans see China as a competitor or enemy.
Expert roundtable on climate change, COVID-19, and healthcare
“We’re at a point now where technology and policy are reinforcing each other, so we have a lot more reason to be optimistic about green finance and climate probably than any other time in the past fifteen or twenty years,” says Damien Ma, Director of the Paulson Institute’s think tank.
