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The Vatican Remains Silent on the Persecution of Chinese Christians 04/23/2021 at 5:46 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White By Fr. Mario Alwxis Portella, Crisis Magazine, April 12, 2021 Last November, Pope Francis, for the first time, called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years. However, during his solemn Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing on Easter Sunday, Francis snubbed the Uighurs as he carefully omitted any re...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Francisco Urdinez Source: Getty Summary:  During the pandemic, Chinese medical and equipment supplies to Chile have come mostly from a diverse cast of Chinese players with local experience in Chile. They adapted to Chile’s unique system of emergency and disaster management. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Preface China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this ha...

WHO Investigators Detail Political Environment During China Field Research Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Feb 16, 2021 Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origin of COVID-19, has walked back comments he made in Wuhan that seemed to endorse controversial Chinese government narratives. During a February 9 press conference that marked the end of the WHO’s China field research, Ben Embarek suggested that the virus might have been imported into Chi...

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on China 80th pre-session Attacks on women’s rights activists including in the context of the #MeToo movement (Articles 1, 2, 3, and 7) Two years after the #MeToo movement took off in China, Chinese women’s rights activists face a political environment in which the Chinese Communist Party’s control over the internet, media, and independent activism is tighter than the previous 30 years.[1] Since the Chinese gov...

How Middle-Power Democracies Can Help Renovate Global Democracy Support Source: Getty Summary:  Middle-power democracies should not tread water while waiting for the United States to address its own democratic crisis. They must help revamp global democracy support using their comparative strengths. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary Democracy is on the defensive globally. Elected governments are struggling to stand up to emboldened autho...

-0:00 Fauci Warns New Virus Mutations Are a ‘Wake-Up Call’ On Friday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci warned that new virus variants, despite the global vaccine distribution, should offer a wake-up call to the continuing dangers of the pandemic. We’re all aware of the variance that we knew dominated — the U.K. B.1.1.7 , the B.1.351 in South Africa and other variants, such as the P.1. in Brazil. When these variants were first recognized, it became clear that we had to look at, in vitro, in the test...

Voices from China’s COVID crisis: ‘If I survive this, what will I do?’ SECTIONS Voices from China’s COVID crisis: ‘If I survive this, what will I do?’New York Times Last Updated: Jan 23, 2021, 11:48 AM IST Share Synopsis A year after the COVID-19 lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan — the first in the world, and still one of the harshest — NYT asked six people, some of whom we spoke to at the height of the outbreak, to describe what they have been through. AFP People walk along...

25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped China’s Grasp The most famous doctor in China was on an urgent mission. Celebrated as the hero who helped uncover the SARS epidemic 17 years ago, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, now 84, was under orders to rush to Wuhan, a city in central China, and investigate a strange new coronavirus. His assistant photographed the doctor on the night train, eyes closed in thought, an image that would later rocket around China and burnish Dr. Zhong’s reputati...

Detention of Canadians Kovrig and Spavor Reaches Two Year Mark Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Dec 10, 2020 December 10, 2020 marks both international Human Rights Day and the two year anniversary of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig’s detentions in China. The two Canadians were seized by Chinese police ten days after Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver. She is currently under house arrest in Canada while undergoing extradition proceedings to the United States on fraud charges relate...