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1/ Having read the int’l cttee/Chinese gov’t #COVID19 origins report & watched the @WHO presser, it’s clear 1) the report is fatally flawed, 2) there’s currently no credible int’l investigation into pandemic origins, & 3) we desperately need one. Follow this thread for more.
2/ The core problem is clearly structural. The int’l team saw its task as finding a zoonotic source of animal transition in the wild, not seeking the actual source of the pandemic. There’s a big difference. They set out to prove one hypothesis, not fairly examine all of them.
3/ That’s why no one at @WHO fully recognized the massive CoI that 4 int’l committee members had prior working relationships with the #Wuhan Institute of Virology. Surprised the team took #ShiZhengli at her word rather than actually investigating?
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"Governments in Asia and across the world are using the Coronavirus crisis to curtail civil liberties, extend surveillance to an unprecedented degree and seeking to limit freedom of the press, alarming press and civil rights protection organizations."
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Journalists have been reported missing/attacked in Ghana, Iran, Ethiopia, Croatia, Somalia, Chechnya, Libya, Zimbabwe, Jordan, El Salvador, Ukraine, Zambia and Croatia, per CPJ and Reporters Without Borders. Newspapers have been suspended in Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, Jordan and Iran.
In China, #LiZehua and #ChenQiushi are missing after reporting on the initial coronavirus outbreak. In US, Trump Trump has (how fittingly) attacked the Voice of America. Barr asked Congress to craft legislation to suspend habeas corpus.
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The #Chinese regime has muzzled citizens who have sought to reveal the true situation of the #CCPVirus outbreak that originated in #Wuhan.

Those suppressed include #Whistleblower doctors, citizen #Journalists, scholars, and business people. (Thread👇) theepochtimes.com/silenced-stori…
Dr. Li Wenliang

“Seven ‘SARS-like’ cases from the Huanan seafood market have been confirmed,” he wrote on Dec. 30, 2019 on @WeChatApp.

#LiWenliang was among the first people to publicize information about the #CCPVirus outbreak in #Wuhan.
The police statement said he had violated the law.

“Don’t go against the authorities, don’t wear masks, don’t make careless remarks,” hospital colleague Zhao Chen recalled a department director as saying, after #LiWenliang was summoned by police.
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“Quite simply, you don’t get to do business in China today without doing exactly what the Chinese government wants you to do. Period. No one is immune. No one.” — former Apple exec in @supchinanews.

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#Huawei "funded a @Cambridge_Uni college study on global governance reforms in communications and technology" and a Cambridge forum, and "[t]he forum led to a white paper, published online this week, that referred favourably to Huawei."

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“The action taken against [@joshchin @Chao_Deng @PhilipWen11] is an extreme and obvious attempt by the Chinese authorities to intimidate foreign news organizations by taking retribution against their China-based correspondents”—@fccchina.

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@TheJusticeDept @Equifax You don't say.

China's embassy in Denmark called a cartoon "an insult to China" and demanded paper/cartoonist "publicly apologise to the Chinese people." Danish Prime Minister's response to China: "we have freedom of expression in Denmark—also to draw."

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@TheJusticeDept @Equifax You don't say.

"The disclosure of his speech indicates top leaders knew about the [#coronavirus] outbreak’s potential severity at least two weeks before such dangers were made known to the public."

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“Quite simply, you don’t get to do business in China today without doing exactly what the Chinese government wants you to do. Period. No one is immune. No one.” — former Apple exec in @supchinanews.

supchina.com/2020/02/12/the…
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@WHO @LiYuan6 You don't say.

"Chinese officials arrested citizens they accused of spreading rumors about the [#coronavirus] illness online. Journalists have also reported being detained and threatened by Chinese authorities while covering the outbreak." @acollman:

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"The chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department was arrested Tuesday on charges of allegedly lying to the U.S. about millions in Chinese funding he has received," misleading about "participation in China’s Thousand Talents Plan."

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New regulations from China's education ministry "stipulate that authors and editors of teaching materials must 'hold a firm political stance' in line with that of the Communist Party of China." @SixthTone's @YujieXuett:

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Stellen Sie sich vor.

"'Für jedes chinesische Unternehmen, privat oder staatlich, gilt: Wenn die chinesische Staatsführung Druck ausübt, wird man diesem nicht standhalten können.' Ob mit oder ohne Sicherheitsgesetzgebung." @SZ:

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"Chinese recipients of the [@WorldBank] loan program requested tens of thousands of dollars for the purchase of facial recognition cameras and software, night-vision cameras, and other surveillance technology for use in Xinjiang schools."

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Govt is “deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held high-level meetings in response to leaks of classified papers on its mass detention camps for Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities.” apnews.com/c1d08873154907…
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