The Forgotten Workers of Tiananmen Square “The 1989 massacre didn’t just end China’s democracy movement. It ushered in a new era of US-inspired worker suppression.”
Op-Ed: In Tibet, it’s a crime to even talk about the value of mother-tongue education
Bloomberg News Killed Investigation, Fired Reporter, Then Sought To Silence His Wife 《So as not to offend China》
China reclassifies dogs as pets, not livestock, in post-virus regulatory push
How China’s fake news machine is rewriting the history of Covid-19, even as the pandemic unfolds
Here’s How China Is Rewriting the History of the Coronavirus Pandemic to Make Itself the Hero
School instructions for online learning has special section about students from China who might not be able to access certain resources due to the Great Firewall…
“Seeing like a state of exception” Gabriele de Seta on the role of machine vision in China’s COVID-19 mitigation efforts
Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong might be more instructive examples (compared with China’s authoritarian approach.)
Taiwan has millions of visitors from China and only 45 coronavirus cases. Here’s how.
The WHO sent 25 international experts to China and here are their main findings after 9 days
China Sentences Hong Kong Bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 Years in Prison
There has been a steady drip of epidemiologists (inside and outside China) saying that: COVID-19 Will Probably Go Pandemic. This article explains what that would mean.
China: Uighur Woman Who Spent 10 Months In Detention Camp Faces Deportation From Kazakhstan
Xinjiang Action List Useful list of actions US Citizens can take to help — from Darren Byler
A Rare Online Revolt Emerges in China Over Death of Coronavirus Whistle-Blower
Because the WHO incorrectly lists Taiwan as part of China, Taiwan has to struggle to keep countries from banning flights in the face of the virus outbreak. (So far, only 10 cases recorded in Taiwan.)
Xenophobia for breakfast
There’s a NY Times article about Anti-Chinese Sentiment in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. I saw this first hand this morning. While waiting for breakfast at our hotel, an elementary school teacher from Chengdu was berated by the cook. She told him that all Chinese have the virus and his kids were coughing too. I intervened to try to explain that there is no chance they have the virus, since they’ve been traveling since before the outbreak and come from a different part of China, etc. Some young Malaysian women were there (college students?) and helped out too, but to no avail. Later, I suggested to the manager that he should tell the staff not to speak to guests this way, but he seemed more worried that he would lose staff if he made them work with Chinese guests.
Confusion and lost time: how testing woes slowed China’s coronavirus response