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China’s response was inept, dishonest and utterly inconsiderate of the world. We need to teach the Chinese government a lesson. Glenn Harlan Reynolds| Opinion columnist| USA Today| April 7 2020| Read original article here There are many lessons to be learned from the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. More

Zoom has a myriad of privacy issues, being reported every day. Shubham Verma, India Today. April 9, 2020. Read the original news here. Zoom has admitted that calls from North America were routed to China. Zoom CEO said this happened due to surge in traffic on local datacentres. Zoom has said it has rectified the issue now. More

Delhi residents are stunned by how blue the sky really is as a strict lockdown cuts back drastically on air pollution. At Connaught Place, a shopping and restaurant hub in New Delhi on Tuesday. More

Kalden Lodoe and Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Read the original article here. Chinese authorities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region recently announced a campaign aimed at stamping out rumors and misinformation, but Tibet analysts say that its true purpose is to stifle freedom of expression, especially among advocates of Tibetan independence. More

Live Mint. 7 Apr 2020. Read the original news here. More

Taiwan was more prepared for the coronavirus than any other country, but the WHO puts politics first. By Wilfred Chan| The Nation| Read original news here| APRIL 3, 2020 Commuters exit a metro train in downtown Taipei, March 16, 2020. More

The US has the third-highest number of reported deaths from COVID-19 in the world. Aljazeera News| 7 April 2020| Read original news here The United States death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University statistics. More

Cui Tiankai for The New York Times. Read the original article here. This is a time for solidarity, collaboration, and mutual support. WASHINGTON — New York is my favorite American city. I used to live and work there and have been a frequent visitor since I became China’s ambassador to the United States. More

Edmund DeMarche for Fox News. Read the original article here. Just as China is about to lift travel restrictions in Wuhan—the city considered to be the country’s one-time epicenter of the coronavirus—Beijing has reported an increase in asymptomatic cases there, which raises new concerns about the second wave of infections. More

By Adam Shaw | Fox News| 5 April 2020| Read original news here China has been appointed to a panel on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, where it will help vet candidates for important posts -- despite its decades-long record of systematic human rights abuse that the U.S. has said fueled the coronavirus pandemic. More

Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping By Minxin Pei | Foreign Affairs| April 3, 2020| Read original here Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with villagers in Huzhou, China, about the coronavirus, March 2020Ju Peng Xinhua / eyevine / Redux Over the past few years, the United States’ approach to China has taken a hard-line turn, with the balance between cooperation and co More

The populist Five Star Movement has become China’s chief enabler as Beijing spreads disinformation about the origins of the coronavirus while sending aid shipments to EU countries where it seeks influence. More

Though the credo is mainly a PR exercise to massage China’s image, it leaves plenty of cause for global concern. More

Tara Van Ho. Opinio Juris. April 2, 2020. Read the original article here.   In the first part, I set out how ‘business as usual’ with regard to shareholder primacy has exacerbated human rights concerns associated with COVID-19. In this post, I want to set out a path forward for a more sustainable and appropriate approach. Before I do, I want to briefly address the title of these posts. More

Sanjeev Miglani| Reuters| Read original here| 2 April 2020 The shutdown, which has brought Asia's third-largest economy to a shuddering halt, is due to end on April 14 PM Modi had ordered India's 1. More

The Chinese Communist Party wants to control the diaspora and suppress foreign criticism. Mongolians, Tibetans and Uighurs are not only silenced inside Xi Jinping’s empire, but abroad Standpoint Magazine Features| Read original here| 25/03/2020 (Illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck) You may not have heard of the United Front Work Department. More

Press Trust of India. April 03, 2020. Read the original news here. Washington: There are news reports that the CIA is doing an independent assessment of COVID-19 figures in China and has advised the White House not to believe the numbers being provided by Beijing. More

Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on its response to the outbreak, said Tuesday that China’s public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus. More

The COP26 UN climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19. GOV.UK| Read original here| 1 April 2020 From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP The COP26 UN climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19. More

China’s burgeoning role in the Arctic could translate into direct competition with Russia. More