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05.19.20
What Are the Right and the Wrong Ways for the U.S. to Support Taiwan?
What are the right and wrong ways for the U.S. to support Taiwan? Traditionally, America’s goals have been to deter the mainland from aggression and coercion, support Taiwan’s democratic system, strengthen economic ties, and help it maintain...
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05.09.20
How Will China Shape Global Governance?
How is the Trump administration’s contempt for, and retreat from, multilateral bodies affecting China’s position and weight within them—or indeed its overall strategy for relations with these organizations? Do China’s leaders aspire to supplant the...
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05.09.18Taiwan Blames China for Absence from U.N. Health Meeting
Reuters
China is disregarding the health of the people of Taiwan by blocking the island’s participation in an annual U.N. health meeting later this month, the Taiwan government said.
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02.15.18China Confirms First Ever Human Case of H7N4 Bird Flu
Guardian
A 68-year-old patient from Jiangsu province, who has since recovered, developed symptoms on Christmas Day and was admitted to hospital
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05.18.17Taiwan’s Vice President Talks to TIME about the Global Health Risks Arising from the Island’s Isolation
Time
When the World Health Assembly (WHA) convenes in Geneva on Monday, it will do so for the first time in nine years without Taiwan, a self-governed democracy that also boasts some of the highest medical standards in Asia.
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07.26.14Congratulations! Inoculations!
Economist
The World Health Organization gives China a glowing report for its lowering of infant and maternal mortality rates.
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07.08.14Coca-Cola Offers Expats China Pollution Hazard Pay
Australian Financial Review
American beverage giant Coca-Cola is offering a hefty “environmental hardship allowance” to its China-based expatriate employees, as foreign companies struggle to attract and retain staff with many people scared off by chronic pollution.
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01.16.14Beijing Air Pollution At Dangerously High Levels
Associated Press
The PM2.5 density was calculated at 26 times higher than what is considered safe by the WHO.
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09.24.13China’s Plan to Curb Air Pollution Sets Limits on Coal Use and Vehicles
New York Times
This plan represents the most concrete response yet by the Communist Party and the government to growing criticism over allowing the country’s air, soil and water to degrade to abysmal levels because of corruption and unchecked economic growth.&...
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08.13.13Can China Clean Up Fast Enough?
Economist
China is going through an industrial-powered growth spurt and the urge to get rich outweighs the desire for clean air. However, China is beginning to clean up its act.
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05.07.13How Much Should We Fear H7N9
New Yorker
Based on the virulence, or severity of the illness that the virus causes; and the communicability, or how easily the virus is passed from person to person, we shouldn’t be losing sleep over H7N9.
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04.25.13China Cooperating With International Organizations On H7N9
Xinhua
Premier Li Keqiang said China is cooperating closely with WHO and other international organizations on the H7N9 avian flu. The government attaches great importance to public health and has been working to effectively prevent and control...
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04.23.13No Poultry Contact In Some Chinese Bird Flu Cases
Reuters
W.H.O. spokesman Gregory Hartl confirmed that “there are people who have no history of contact with poultry”, after a top Chinese scientist was quoted as saying this applied to about 40 percent of those infected.
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04.16.13Human Infection With Influenza A (H7N9) Virus In China
World Health Organization
At 2:00 PM 9 April 2013 there is no evidence of ongoing human-to-human transmission. W.H.O. does not advise special screening at points of entry with regard to this event, nor does it recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be...
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04.12.13New Bird Flu Strain Spreads In China As Fourth Dies
Bloomberg
The extent of the outbreak, the source of infection and the mode of transmission are being investigated, and it’s too early to tell whether the cases may signal a pandemic, according to the W.H.O.
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03.14.13Was S.A.R.S. Fallout A Lesson For China In Global Citizenship?
Christian Science Monitor
The Chinese government’s views on transparency, in regards to issues of interational health, have changed drastically since the S.A.R.S. outbreak ten years ago, but some areas have yet to improve.