"Someone with a serious political prejudice and a mental issue" - The Global Times. "The BBC's John Sudworth pressed on" - The Wall Street Journal.
May 25, 2021 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
This is a great piece by @JNBPage on the questions surrounding the possibility of a lab-leak, and his attempt to get to the Tongguan mine – a location at the centre of the whole controversy. 1/ wsj.com/articles/wuhan…
His story reminded me of the attempt back in October last year - by me, @ProducerKathy and others - following which I always thought a twitter thread might be a good way of providing a few details that didn’t make it into the final piece. 2/ bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Feb 5, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
It’s not our news that’s fake. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian @zlj517 has got this wrong.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry is accusing the BBC of taking footage of an “anti-terrorism exercise” and using it to falsely portray China’s lock-down enforcement in a bad light.