Zijian Feng and colleagues argue that sustained elimination of SARS-CoV-2 in China offers flexibility in covid-19 vaccination policy and discuss the anticipated challenges and systematic monitoring …
Monthly Archives For December 2021
Better modelling of infectious diseases: lessons from covid-19 in China
More timely, accurate, and relevant data and methodological innovation could exploit the full power of modelling, argue Feng Chen and colleagues Since Daniel Bernoulli studied smallpox inoculation …
Retired Ted Ligety finds path to Beijing Olympics as analyst
If two-time Olympic champion Ted Ligety gave even a moment of consideration to returning to ski racing less than a year after retiring , the persistent numbness in his left foot would deflect such …
Understanding the Pro-China Propaganda and Disinformation Tool Set in Xinjiang
Inauthentic social media accounts attributed to China have been identified as part of a disinformation campaign to defend the country’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
Investing in China’s Second-Largest Stock and the EV Evolution
CATL specializes in making lithium-ion batteries that are used by major electric vehicle manufacturers, including Tesla, BMW, Daimler, BMW, Nio, and Li Auto, the latter two being some of China’s …
China buys U.S., Brazilian soybeans after price drop
Chinese importers bought a small number of bulk soybean cargoes on Wednesday for shipment in December and January from the U.S. Gulf Coast and Brazilian ports, analysts and an export trader said.
Crypto Startup Investors Bypass Asia in Favor of Backing US Firms
For the first time in four years, venture capitalists are looking to back companies in the U.S. instead of Asia, following China’s crackdown on tech and crypto.
TOT BIOPHARM Announces NMPA Granted Marketing Approval for Pusintin® (TAB008, Bevacizumab Injection) in China
SUZHOU, China, Dec.1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TOT BIOPHARM International … striving to build a leading oncology treatments brand worthy of the trust of patients and their family members, and medical …
Beijing warns against ‘old path of militarism’
Anyone who “dares to walk again the old path of militarism and challenge the bottom line of the Chinese people” will “have their heads bashed bloody”, Beijing warned on Wednesday after a speech …
Beijing asks Democratic Republic of Congo to help gain release of kidnapped Chinese miners
Foreign Minister Wang Yi makes the request of his DRC counterpart at a meeting on the sidelines of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Two Chinese citizens were killed and five kidnapped in a militia …
China’s rising vulnerability to foreign investors
The consensus among professional investors is that foreign ownership of Chinese portfolio assets can only continue to rise © Financial Times …
Facebook, now Meta, says China created a fake Swiss scientist to spread conspiracies that the US was falsely blaming it for COVID-19
Facebook said a user named Wilson Edwards for 2.5 weeks spread lies that the US was urging the WHO to blame COVID-19 on China. But he doesn’t exist.
Covid-related social media disinformation campaign by China fell flat
China attempted to use American social media platforms to disseminate a rumor that the United States was pressuring World Health Organization to blame China for the coronavirus, but the rumor never …
