China begins to report asymptomatic coronavirus cases
A line outside a Carrefour supermarket in Wuhan on March 22. Image from People.vgn via Caixin. After days of mixed…
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More manufacturing activity reported in March
New numbers indicate that China’s manufacturing sector is emerging, slowly, from the country’s near-complete economic lockdown in February. Per CNBC:…
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Asymptomatic cases in China get more attention from authorities (but not enough to officially count)
Xi Jinping appeared without a mask for portions of his tour of Anji County, Zhejiang Province, on March 30. Photo…
Continue readingTrump dismisses concerns about Chinese misinformation
President Trump continues to take a non-confrontational tack with China, since his phone call with Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 last week and…
Continue readingWhy did multiple countries receive substandard Chinese medical equipment?
“Don’t sensationalize mask quality dispute,” reads the headline of a Global Times editorial that is being recirculated by the People’s…
Continue readingHidden infections and faulty tests: The fraying edges of Beijing’s PR campaign
China’s “mask diplomacy” is finding immediate success in some quarters. Eric Olander of the China Africa Project says that China’s soft…
Continue readingTrump plays nice in call with Xi
In the last 24 hours, the U.S. has become the country with the most officially diagnosed and reported cases of…
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China in Africa Podcast: An African futurist looks beyond today’s COVID-19 crisis
In his new book, Africa First!: Igniting a Growth Revolution, Jakkie Cilliers of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria examines…
Continue readingEditor’s note for Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Dear Access member, When the COVID-19 epidemic first became severe in China, we suggested ways that our readers could help…
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Europe stuck in uncomfortable middle between ‘America first’ and China’s ‘mask diplomacy’
Photo credit: A tweet from the President of the European Commission, which was featured in a People’s Daily article titled, Foreign…
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China lifts lockdown in Hubei Province except Wuhan, where restrictions remain until April 8
Workers disinfect a subway car in Wuhan, as authorities prepare to gradually resume public transportation and business activity in the…
Continue readingMore indications of massive Q1 economic contraction
Joint data from January and February, released a week ago, gave the first official indication that China’s first quarter might…
Continue readingA rhetorical climb-down from the U.S. and China
After the Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Cuī Tiānkǎi 崔天凯, downplayed conspiracy theories about the origin of COVID-19 that his…
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Is the Chinese Foreign Ministry distancing itself from coronavirus conspiracies?
Screenshot of Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai in an interview with Axios. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhào Lìjiān 赵立坚…
Continue readingWuhan has more asymptomatic cases, not counted in official figures
According to new Caixin reporting (in Chinese; in English), there are new asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, often numbering…
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