Silenced in China: the COVID 'truth-tellers' and political dissent
Jul 18, 2021 10:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan in early 2020, one focus of international reporting has been the Chinese authorities handling of the story. The BBC, CNN, the New York Times, AP, among others, have...
Jul 01, 2021 03:42 am UTC| Politics
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in full swing to prepare for the 100th anniversary of its founding this week, with an intense publicity push to crow about its achievements. However, the CCP has little to celebrate...
Why politicians should be wary of publicly pursuing the Wuhan lab-leak investigation
Jun 07, 2021 23:43 pm UTC| Politics Law
The theory that SARS-CoV-2 originally leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan, China, is making a comeback so much so that President Joe Biden has publicly ordered the US intelligence community to redouble its investigations...
Xi Jinping sends message to US on China's rising power in Boao address
Apr 23, 2021 12:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Chinese President Xi Jinpings muscular speech to the Boao Forum Asia annual conference was clearly designed to send a signal to the United States that China regarded the change of administration as an opportunity for a...
Chinese firms on investment blacklist encouraged by Xiaomi win, eye lawsuits against US
Mar 17, 2021 09:56 am UTC| Economy
Chinese firms targeted by former President Donald Trumps investment ban are thinking of suing the US government, encouraged by a federal judges suspension of blacklisting for Beijing-based smartphone maker Xiaomi. A...
How China is controlling the COVID origins narrative — silencing critics and locking up dissenters
Jan 14, 2021 04:54 am UTC| Insights & Views
Just over a year has gone by since the novel coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan and the world still has many questions about where and how it originated. The World Health Organisation is sending a...
China enters 2021 a stronger, more influential power — and Australia may feel the squeeze even more
Jan 06, 2021 04:33 am UTC| Politics
Great power competition in the Asia-Pacific region has been building for years. But COVID-19 has turbo-charged the shifts taking place and China is finishing 2020 in a significantly stronger position compared with the US...