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"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.
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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.
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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.