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China / Economics / Taiwan / Technology / World

Why we should all pray China does not invade Taiwan

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th August, 2022) The fertile fields surrounding Tainan, the former capital of Taiwan famed for its fireflies, food and hundreds of historic […]

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China / Taiwan / World

Facing down the Dragon in ‘the most dangerous place on Earth’

Published by The Daily Mail (23rd August, 2022) Kneeling on the floor, Kate Wang pressed a bandage to stem the flow of blood from a nasty-looking wound, while […]

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China / World

How Hong Kong was swallowed by the Chinese dragon

Published by The Daily Mail (30th June, 2022) For almost half a century, the glitzy Jumbo Floating Restaurant was one of Hong Kong’s best-known sights as it sat majestically […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Will China’s ‘Zero Covid’ crackdown ruin the Olympics?

Published by The Daily Mail (17th January, 2022) The timing could not be worse. Omicron has seeped into China on the eve of the Winter Olympics, forcing the government […]

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China / Covid19 / Health / Policy / World

So why did the science establishment try so hard to silence those who feared Covid leaked from a Chinese lab?

Published by The Daily Mail (12th January, 2022) Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the world-famous Wellcome Trust, has condemned the policy failures of politicians in the pandemic while […]

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Canada / China / Covid19 / World

Call for probe into ‘Covid’ outbreak at wuhan games 2 months before world was alerted

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th January, 2022) A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the ‘Ground Zero’ of Covid two months before China officially […]

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China / Europe / Lithuania / World

Democracy is under assault

Published by The i paper (3rd January, 2022) New Year is a time of hope and renewal. Yet it is hard to be optimistic about the state of […]

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China / Covid19 / World

How China made Covid worse

Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory disease. The 41-year-old accountant was called Chen and […]

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China / World

Exposed: China’s 18 concentration camps

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st November, 2021) As he strolled along the street in the Chinese city of Urumqi, trying his best to look like a tourist, […]

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China / World

Confessions of a Chinese torturer

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th October, 2021) As we sat in the cafe of a smart hotel, the beefy man beside me disclosed how he beat, […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Leading US scientist: I was told about the Wuhan outbreak two weeks before Beijing warned the world

Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th September, 2021) One of the world’s top epidemiologists admits he first heard about the pandemic outbreak in Wuhan more than two […]

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China / Covid19 / United States / World

China lashes out at US over ‘fake news’ ahead of key report into COVID origins

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd August, 2021) The Chinese government has stepped up its aggressive resistance against efforts by Western scientists to probe Covid’s origins – […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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