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China / Covid19 / Health / Policy / World

China’s first virus cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in the southern Chinese coastal province of Guangdong fell […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology

World’s most famous medical journal is accused of doing China’s dirty work – by denouncing the Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th June, 2012) Earlier this year, the prominent German psychiatrist Thomas Schulze sent a proposal to Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of world-renowned medical […]

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China / World

Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong

Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying bags for passengers at the railway station in […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology

Beijing’s useful idiots

Published by UnHerd (8th June, 2021) Just over a year ago, I stumbled across an intriguing scientific paper. It suggested the pandemic that was ripping around the world […]

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China / World

China’s Communists cannot gloss over their history

Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as a ‘credible, lovable and respectable’ country that is […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Is ‘Patient Su’ Covid’s Patient Zero?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th May, 2021) A mistake by a leading Chinese official may have disclosed the name, address and details about one of the […]

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China / Covid19 / Feature / World

What a Wuhan lab leak would really mean

Published by UnHerd (26th May, 2021) It has taken 17 months since the new coronavirus supposedly erupted, but the lab leak hypothesis has finally come in from the […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Why China’s bid to woo the world with vaccines is backfiring

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd May, 2021) China’s Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, rolled out rapidly around the world and proclaimed by President Xi Jinping as a […]

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China / Covid19 / World

How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) Scientists studying bat diseases at China’s maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were engaged in a massive project to investigate animal […]

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China / Covid19 / World

What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid

Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in […]

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China / Economics / World

Nike’s shows the conflict between ethics and profits

Published by The i paper (29th March, 2021) Like most modern multinationals, the sportswear giant Nike likes to present itself as a force for good on the planet, […]

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China / Covid19 / United States / World

‘A lab leak isn’t 100% certain but it seems to be the only logical source of Covid’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th March, 2021) A cluster of researchers from China’s secretive Wuhan laboratories fell sick with ‘Covid-like’ symptoms at least six weeks before […]

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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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