Day: December 16, 2021

Taiwan recently announced that a researcher working in one of their labs had been infected with Covid-19 after being bitten by lab mice on two separate occasions. The incident, which took place in a lab with significantly more stringent safety controls than the Wuhan lab, has renewed the debate over origins of the Covid pandemic. If a worker can get infected at a biosafety level-3 lab in Taiwan they can certainly become infected at a biosafety level-2 lab in China. And contrary to the impression created

One person you won’t see at the Beijing Olympic–the Japanese Prime Minister. He announced today that he has no plans to personally attend the games. A Chinese state media chief is retiring, after years of defending Beijing’s policies. A college instructor lost her job in China over comments about the Nanking, now known as Nanjing, Massacre. Her firing comes amid the 84th anniversary of the incident. Recently-leaked documents suggest that Chinese telecom giant Huawei has closer ties to the Chinese communi