Beijing back in lockdown: Parts of the city are fenced off and new travel bans introduced

Chinese authorities were reimposing some travel restrictions in the capital Tuesday as they worked to contain a new coronavirus outbreak and prevent it spreading more widely in a country that previously appeared to have largely contained the virus. As reopenings from Europe to Latin America continued, the resurgence in China highlighted expert calls for vigilance … Read more

Beijing faces ‘very high’ risk of further COVID-19 spreading

Chinese officials have warned that the risk of epidemic spreading of COVID-19 in Beijing is ‘very high’ after dozens tested positive in a fresh cluster. The country’s Vice Premier Sun Chunlan urged the city’s officials to impose ‘the strictest’ virus control measures to stem the new outbreak, which has been linked to a massive food … Read more

Beijing fires another shot at Australia and says Chinese will abandon the country due to racism

‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: Beijing fires another shot at Australia and says ALL Chinese consumers will abandon the country – after warning tourists not to visit because of ‘racist violence’ Chinese state-owned newspaper Global Times unleashes attack on Australia   Comes after Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism told citizens to not visit Recent … Read more

Did China’s ambassador let slip that Beijing ALREADY has a vaccine?

Did China’s ambassador let slip that Beijing ALREADY has a vaccine? London embassy alters transcript of bombshell remarks China ambassador to London claimed his country had a ready-to-use vaccine Liu Xiaoming made the remarks to astonished drugs companies in ‘webinar’ But Chinese diplomats sent The Mail on Sunday a link to an altered transcript Beijing … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: At last, we’re showing backbone against thugs in Beijing over people of Hong Kong 

At last, our Government is displaying a backbone – and a sense of honour – in its dealings with the totalitarian Communist regime of Beijing. Interviewed by the BBC‘s Andrew Marr yesterday, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab declared that unless the Chinese Communist Party revoked its decision last week to apply its own tyrannical and … Read more

Beijing now admits that coronavirus DIDN’T start in Wuhan’s market… so where DID it come from

China has become used to public confessions on television. But this time the words came from one of the nation’s top officials and had seismic global implications. ‘At first, we assumed the seafood market might have the virus, but now the market is more like a victim,’ said Gao Fu, director of the Centre for … Read more

Why escape Brussels to kowtow to Beijing, asks former Australian prime minister TONY ABBOTT

Along with killing tens of thousands of people in countries such as Britain, and inflicting years of subsequent economic pain, the corona crisis should drive lasting change in our perceptions of China. It’s not that this virus has changed the nature of the Chinese regime; but it has made its repressive, secretive and self-aggrandising side … Read more

Beijing accuses America of ‘inciting countries to demand compensation’

China has accused the US of inciting other countries to demand compensation over coronavirus as an economic blame-game over the pandemic escalated today. Beijing vehemently pushed back against suggestions that it should bear financial responsibility for unleashing a virus which has forced countries into lockdown and wiped trillions of dollars off the world economy. Instead, … Read more

Fears of global trade war with China after Beijing slaps an 80 per cent tariff on Australian exports

There are fears Britain could be dragged into a global trade war with China after Beijing slapped an 80 per cent tariff on Australian exports as punishment for demanding an independent coronavirus inquiry – which 100 nations including the UK supported.      The World Health Organization bowed to calls from most of its member states to … Read more

Bill Gates defends China over coronavirus response and says criticism of Beijing is a ‘distraction’

It’s too soon to be talking about whether China deserves blame for the coronavirus outbreak and efforts to shift the focus onto Beijing are a ‘distraction,’ according to Bill Gates, who criticized ‘incorrect and unfair things’ said about the Communist-run country. ‘China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where … Read more