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17 April 2024
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A China-based researcher had mapped the COVID-19 genetic sequence and uploaded it to an American database by December 28th 2019, it has emerged, raising fresh questions about the virus's origins.
There's been a lot of chatter lately about Wuhan's 'batwoman' and her 'secret' meetings with U.S. officials. But at least as suspicious is the connection between Germany's Christian Drosten and Wuhan, says Robert Kogon.
New documents reveal a secret 2017 meeting between a Chinese scientist, nicknamed 'Batwoman', and the US Government, raising concerns of western collaboration in a potential Covid lab-leak cover-up.
The one source of comfort for Joe Baron going into 2024, with everything else looking so doomy and gloomy, was the prospect of Arsenal winning the league. But he's beginning to doubt that even that will happen.
Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old British and Hong Kong citizen and founder of the Daily Apple, is on trial for "colluding with foreign forces", in a show of power from Beijing that marks the death of freedom in the territory.
With the ever-growing presence of Government surveillance to keep us 'safe' and in line, is a descent into a Chinese-style police state now inevitable, asks Nick Rendell.
The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?
Professor Angus Dalgleish, a co-author of a scientific paper on the origins of COVID-19, emphasises the imperative for the Covid Inquiry to diligently pursue the truth regarding the virus's origin.
Returning to Hong Kong for the first time since Covid, Dr Roger Watson says that the creeping absorption of the region into China is palpable as Beijing dismantles many of its former freedoms.
China gets a lot wrong, but a few things right, says Dr Roger Watson, who finds the country moving ahead in some ways but still lamentable in others.
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