The White House said the program, presented as an alternative to China’s own global infrastructure initiative, will “help narrow the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in the developing world, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.”A senior administration official described the plan, called the “Build Back Better World” initiative, as a “bold, new global infrastructure …
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The “Chinese defector”: is there an official denial?
Technical details provided by the defector, RedState is told, were given to scientists (who were not told how that information was given to the government) who then re-analyzed data from published sources in conjunction with the new data and concluded that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was engineered. And, the defector was able to confirm numerous non-public …
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Elbows are the new hands
How don’t you do. This will be classic one day.
Chinese researchers say new batch of coronaviruses found in bats
Missing link or missing linkage? The researchers said one strain, garnered from the Rhinolophus pusillus bat species, bears a particularly strong resemblance to SARS-CoV-2, though with differences on the spike protein that the viruses use to attach to cells they infect.
The beast from 20,000 years ago
China squeezes Cambodia for its Covid app data
HRW didn’t see it coming. However, what HRW didn’t foresee was the China factor. Shortly after the official announcement of the “Stop Covid-19” app’s launch, Wang Wentian, the Chinese ambassador to Phnom Penh, met with Cambodian officials and requested access to the personal data collected via the new system, according to sources familiar with the …
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America’s secret weapon: logistics
The university show trials: what have I done?
I thought about my colleagues, the small college team I worked with every day. We were friends. We sometimes dined together. We would have walked across campus together after a hearing. It had honestly never occurred to me how that would look to an outsider desperately seeking a fair hearing for her son. In her …
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CDC plans “emergency meeting” on rare heart inflammation following COVID-19 vaccines
So far, the CDC has identified 226 reports that might meet the agency’s “working case definition” of myocarditis and pericarditis following the shots, the agency disclosed Thursday. The vast majority have recovered, but 41 had ongoing symptoms, 15 are still hospitalized, and 3 are in the intensive care unit.
Inflation looms
“Uncomfortable levels of inflation” may be ahead, Deutsche Bank economists warned in a new report, but said US authorities likely won’t take any action until it’s too late.
Online learning too expensive
What other viruses were found in Chinese mine?
From 2012 to 2015, WIV researchers identified as many as 293 coronaviruses in and around the mine. The institute in November 2020 disclosed the existence of eight other “SARS-type” coronavirus samples taken from the site.
Greta Thunberg complains that Chinese state-owned media is fat-shaming her
The Chinese Communist Party is not repelled by the Woke talismans that provide nearly complete immunity to criticism in the West. They don’t play by politically correct rules. None of that critical theory means s**t to China.
Covid is the “forever virus” — Foreign Affairs
Remember when it was “two weeks to flatten the curve”
“Time to go big, bold, and alone.”
The end of the talks will increase pressure on Democrats to pass a sweeping package using a special process that doesn’t require any Republican votes in the Senate.
Biden substitutes “review” for Trump ban on China apps
The new order doesn’t target any companies specifically, but creates the potential for an even broader crackdown on Chinese-owned apps than the Trump administration orders it replaces by mandating a review of all software applications with potential ties to countries such as China.
Big Green beats Big Oil
One day the people who would always come back walk away for good. “You can’t leave California! You can’t leave New York! You can.
The cloudy crystal ball
New at the Belmont Club. Nature makes complex statements. It hasn’t finished the paragraph but bureaucrats might.
Biden persecutes journalists — Wapo
Worse than Trump, even with a progressive discount coupon. After Biden took office, the department continued to pursue subpoenas for reporters’ email logs issued to Google, which operates the New York Times’ email systems, and it obtained a gag order compelling a Times attorney to keep silent about the fact that federal authorities were seeking …