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The high cost of being a whistleblower in China

While the right to report wrongdoing is recognised in the Chinese constitution, it comes with strict limits.

Al Jazeera

Stories of ‘beating the odds’ in China draw dark responses from wary public

Wave of online scepticism about two stories of survival and success in China point to deeper public dissatisfaction.

Al Jazeera

Chinese Laud 'Great' Gao Yaojie, Dissident Doctor And AIDS Whistleblower

A dissident doctor who became China's most outspoken AIDS campaigner was praised in her home country on Tuesday, days after she died in self-exile in the United States at age 95.

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Chinese Dissident Doctor And AIDS Whistleblower Dies Aged 95

A dissident doctor who became China's most outspoken and celebrated AIDS campaigner, spending years under government pressure before finding refuge in the United States, has died at the age of 95, a long-time supporter told AFP. Gao Yaojie, who dedicated her retirement to helping AIDS patients and orphans, passed away…

International Business Times

One year after protests shook China, participants ponder the meaning of the brief flare of defiance

A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!”

The Independent UK

Li Keqiang funeral in China brings out crowds despite suppression effort

Police line road amid strictly controlled public tributes to premier once seen as antidote to authoritarian Xi Jinping

The Guardian - UK

China seeks to stifle public grief for former premier Li Keqiang

Censorship targets ‘overly effusive’ comments, gatherings or references to Li’s views on economic reform

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Eye of the Storm: Netflix's pandemic melodrama highlights the humanity of healthcare workers

Netflix’s Taiwanese drama, Eye of the Storm, is the latest cinematic depiction of a pandemic. But rather than focus on COVID, it tells the story of the 2003 Sars epidemic through Taipei City Hospital’s Heping branch. This real event, where a devastating outbreak led to the hospital’s lockdown, serves as…

The Conversation

Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the size of the 2003 SARS outbreak, dies at 91

Jiang Yanyong was a Chinese military doctor who revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak and was later placed under house arrest for his political outspokenness.

WEKU

Doctor who exposed China’s cover-up of Sars crisis dies aged 91

Dr Jiang Yanyong revealed true extent of 2003 outbreak and was put under house arrest for denouncing Tiananmen Square massacre

The Guardian - UK

Chinese SARS whistleblower Jiang Yanyong dies at 91

Reports say Jiang Yanyong, a Chinese military doctor who revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak and was later placed under house arrest for his political outspokenness, has died

The Independent UK

Three years later, what we know: How did COVID start?

Scientists lean towards a natural spillover from animals, but China’s opacity means a lab leak can’t be ruled out.

Al Jazeera

On 3/11/20, WHO declared a pandemic. These quotes and photos recall that historic time

Three years ago, the novel coronavirus swept the world. Here are 24 quotes and 13 photos that sum up the reaction in the weeks before the World Health Organization's declaration of a global pandemic.

WEKU

From zero-tolerance into the unknown – a visual guide to three years of Covid in China

In 2019, the world’s first Covid case was detected in Wuhan. This month China abruptly shifted away from efforts to eliminate the virus

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Reuters

In China's Wuhan, a shadow of reserve and resentment even as COVID lockdowns ease

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak nearly three years ago and where thousands died, residents cautiously greeted a relaxation of lockdown measures by authorities this week.

AFP

Tributes pour in for whistleblower doctor after China's zero-Covid U-turn

Beijing (AFP) - Hundreds of Chinese internet users have paid tribute to "martyr" doctor Li Wenliang, who first blew the whistle on the coronavirus outbreak, in the wake of a dramatic reversal of strict Covid rules by the government.

Al Jazeera

China’s COVID-19 protests: What we know so far

People have gathered in at least eight Chinese cities in a sign of the growing anger at Beijing’s zero-COVID strategy.

Reuters

On China's internet, only plaudits for the party and Xi

While financial markets judged the outcome of China's Communist Party Congress harshly on Monday, on China's internet the only permitted response has been full-throated support.

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AFP

The censor cannot hold: the pressure of controlling China's internet

San José (United States) (AFP) - As a teenager in rural China, Zeng Jiajun used his internet know-how to watch a banned documentary on the bloody military crackdown in Tiananmen Square.

The Conversation

China’s COVID crisis and the dilemma facing its leaders, by experts who have monitored it since the Wuhan outbreak

More than two years after a deadly strain of coronavirus was first identified in the central city of Wuhan, China remains locked in a COVID crisis. Around 400 million people are currently thought to be living under some form of lockdown across the country. One of China’s largest cities, Shanghai,…

Tribune News Service

Xi puts ideology before economy with market-busting lockdowns

China’s worst equity selloff since early 2020 reflects a growing concern about President Xi Jinping: He can’t afford the political costs of shifting from a COVID Zero strategy that is pummeling the economy.

Tribune News Service

China web users race to post censored video on lockdown troubles

Chinese internet users rallied to outwit government censors on a video documenting weeks of lockdown in Shanghai, flooding social media feeds as frustration continued to escalate over strict COVID zero rules.

ABC News

China critics get creative after Beijing scrubs viral video of angry Shanghai residents from social media

Social media users try innovative ways to get around Beijing's censors to share video of residents complaining about the lack of food and medicine and heavy-handed tactics in locked-down Shanghai.

Bangkok Post

Chinese battle web censors to vent lockdown anger

Chinese internet users have rallied to outwit government censors on a video documenting weeks of lockdown in Shanghai, flooding social media feeds as frustration continued to escalate over strict Covid Zero rules.

The Guardian - AU

China internet censors scramble as lockdown frustration sparks ‘creative’ wave of dissent

Experts say volume of dissent from Shanghai over zero-Covid measures challenging attempts to control information

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