The lab-leak hypothesis—for decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?
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Why Japanese tigers have flat heads: Painted screen by Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙 | Curator's Corner S06 E04
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Jack Ma disappears from his own talent show
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The Sino-Soviet split: How did Soviet Russia and China become enemies?
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US federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls
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How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
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Finland's parliament approved a bill designed to protect its networks against cyber threats and espionage – may be used to exclude China's Huawei and ZTE
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‘Monster Hunter’ pulled from Chinese cinemas over scene said to be racial slur
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China's Chang'e-5 mission has successfully landed on the moon, will now collect and return the first lunar samples since 1976
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Why China's largest volcano is so unusual
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TikTok can continue to operate in the US, Commerce Department says
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Sweden is banning equipment from Chinese telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE from its new 5G network
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Growing number of unexpected arrivals in Arctic waters around Greenland – shrinking sea ice has fast-tracked a race among powers for control over resources and waterways
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Nokia wins Belgian 5G contracts amid US pressure to exclude the Chinese firm Huawei from supplying key telecoms equipment
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We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: We have lazily repeated false narratives for too long
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Why footbinding persisted in China for a millennium
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Nokia has clinched a deal with Britain's biggest mobile operator BT to supply 5G radio equipment – coming months after UK said it would ban Huawei from 5G networks
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The rat tribe: Meet the million migrant workers living beneath Beijing's streets
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Everything we know so far about the mysterious and confusing deal between TikTok, Oracle, and Walmart
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Court blocks Trump’s WeChat ban from taking effect today
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My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
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India bans PUBG, Baidu, WeChat, Alipay, and 114 Chinese apps in the third ban wave
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The next front in the India-China conflict could be a canal across southern Thailand’s Kra Isthmus
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Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China
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One year later, has the Huawei ban been effective?
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Navigating China’s censorship and India’s apps ban, Tibetan refugees rethink their dependence on WeChat
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The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
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US Intelligence: China opposes Trump reelection; Russia works against Biden
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US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
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A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat - TikTok's algorithm is so good at organizing users into subcultures that it was able to skip the awkward early phases of new social media
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QAF: A Chinese fan-forum that's grown into a hub for volunteers subtitling foreign LGBTIQ media and a support community
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Engineers of the soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China
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China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises
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United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027
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The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern
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Swedish ex-ambassador Anna Lindstedt acquitted – had been accused of going beyond her remit to have talks with a foreign power
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TikTok is getting caught up in the geopolitical conflict between China and the US
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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law
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$100,000 Whales - An introduction to Chinese browser game design
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The Chinese government is engaging in a widespread, systematic campaign of forced birth control and sterilization on Uighurs and other minorities
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Indian government bans fifty-nine Chinese apps for security reasons
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India bans fifty-nine Chinese apps, including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser
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Counter-espionage agency ASIO is conducting a sweeping investigation into allegations Chinese government agents have infiltrated the office of a NSW Labor politician to influence Australian politics
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White House ordered National Institutes of Health to cancel coronavirus research funding, Anthony Fauci says
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The coming chip wars
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New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China Also: 'Cyber attacks' point to China's spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback,...
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
This is a follow-up to these articles posted yesterday:
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At least twenty Indian Army soldiers killed in a face-off with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley
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World Health Organization says new virus outbreak in China needs further testing after 'hypothesis' on cause
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US naval buildup in Indo-Pacific seen as warning to China
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