By William J. Furney It’s the most difficult challenge of our time, and there’s one question every country on the planet wants an answer to — except one, unless it
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A Chinese ‘Dystopia’ The UN Ignores
By William J. Furney The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in Xinjiang. Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other
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In China, No News Is Great News
By William J. Furney The omnipotent might and financial clout of the Communist Party in China means the country’s leaders can do as they please, and if the wider world
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China’s Dark Zhang Zhan Corona Moment
By William J. Furney What has China done with a citizen journalist reporting on the early days of the coronavirus pandemic from the epicentre in Wuhan? Praised her efforts at
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At Virtual UN General Assembly, a Call for Coronavirus Reason
By William J. Furney World leaders were not jetting to New York this week for the annual spectacle that is the United Nations General Assembly, but instead, thanks to coronavirus,
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No Surprise as Coronavirus Appears in China’s Reopened Food Markets
By William J. Furney China’s traditional food markets are back open, and coronavirus cases are emerging from them again. Has the country learned nothing from the global pandemic that’s believed
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Awaiting the Next Pandemic
By Wiliam J. Furney Just when you thought the United Nation’s health organisation that’s supposed to help protect the health of the world couldn’t get any worse in their obsequience
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Hong Kong’s Boss Is Tone Deaf, and No One Is Listening
By William J. Furney The sterile halls of power in Beijing will be filled with fiery alarm at the mass insolence in Hong Kong when the omnipotent Communist Party thought
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