NYT weekend editor. Author of Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China. Former NYT Asia editor, WashPost reporter in China, Russia, DC.
Mar 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Not good: Analysts who study disinformation said this was the first time they had seen this scale of amplification between Beijing and Moscow around a conspiracy theory. nytimes.com/2022/03/10/us/…
And now this 🤦♂️
Imposing a travel quarantine on a city the size of 11 million is a big deal. Understandably, some people will not want to stay. During SARS, the party had to mobilize citizens to report on each other and set up roadblocks to check people for fevers. nytimes.com/2020/01/22/wor…
A big challenge is that we know so little about this new coronavirus, how it is transmitted and what the early signs are. If the symptoms are less severe, as they seem to be, it will be more difficult to detect and contain.