Year: 2021

On April 3rd, Former Premier Wen Jiabao released four commentaries on Macao Herald, mourning his mother who passed away in December last year, reminiscing about her education, his career in the Chinese government, and his aspirations for China. These articles were once widely circulated on Chinese social media, but now, they were censored. If it is true that even the former premier was silenced, how could people at the grassroots level speak up at all? While Wen Jiabao’s article was deleted, many new “sens

China, according to US President Joe Biden, is “deadly earnest” about becoming the world’s most “consequential” nation. In this week’s podcast, the team analyses Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress. Also, reports of China’s “declining” population are refuted by Beijing even though it has yet to release new figures. SCMP China Desk reporter Sarah Zheng looks behind Beijing’s mask diplomacy and India’s snub of pandemic relief from border rival China.

It was due to Trump’s intervention that the world at large blamed China for mishandling the viral outbreak. In fact, had it not been for Trump, the Democrats in the US, left-liberals across the world and the mainstream liberal media would have portrayed China as more of a victim. Watch the video for more.