China launches final satellite for BeiDou, its GPS competitor
China today completed a decades-long project to construct an alternative satellite positioning system to the U.S.–controlled GPS.
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China’s mass COVID-19 testing moves from Wuhan to the northeast
According to Chinese officials, every resident of Wuhan over the age of six has now been tested for COVID-19--an extraordinary mass testing campaign that at first seemed unclear and unfeasible, but soon became a reality
Oceans of plastic: China’s Sisyphean fight to keep trash out of the water
By one measure, China contributes over a quarter of the plastic in the world’s seas. It’s a problem the government is well aware of — though fixing it has presented a bevy of challenges.
Field of Dreams
Mo Hailong stole corn and went to jail for it. But — as documented in Mara Hvistendahl’s new book The Scientist and the Spy —...
The new normal: Widespread COVID-19 testing
“Large-scale, efficient testing has been proven to be a key to controlling the rampant spread of coronavirus in the global war against the pandemic,” reports...
The Indianapolis-Shanghai partnership that could develop an effective COVID-19 remedy
American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co., based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is partnering with Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. to develop a remedy for COVID-19, and...
The Cruelest Month
“April is the cruelest month,” so goes the opening line to T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” And so it is that April has been exceptionally...
Wuhan revises its death toll up 50 percent
The Wuhan government today released a statement (via Xinhua in English, in Chinese) saying that it was revising its data on the COVID-19 outbreak in...
China reports small wave of virus infections from Russia
Russia, with which China shares its second-longest land border (its longest is with Mongolia), has officially reported almost 20,000 cases of COVID-19. This number has increased rapidly...
Why COVID-19 has spread faster than SARS
SupChina illustration by Derek Zheng, originally for our February 3 coronavirus update when, we noted, “it feels like the entire world is preparing for a pandemic.”...