Wuhan

Did Covid first emerge at the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

3 November 2021 7:49 am

The net around the Wuhan Institute of Virology continues to tighten. A letter from Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the…

How China tried to suppress the lab leak investigation

14 August 2021 11:53 am

The lead figure in the World Health Organisation’s work on the origins of Covid-19 has givena remarkable interview to Danish…

A volte face over what caused the pandemic needs explaining

31 July 2021 9:00 am

Sir Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust, writes that ‘the last year has been an eye-opener for me.…

WHO knows? We still can't be sure of Covid's origins

3 April 2021 9:00 am

We still can’t be sure where the virus originated

china

The China election

1 September 2020 4:19 am

Bill Clinton, in a speech heralding China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2000, remarked that ‘by joining the WTO,…

Sink or swim: China’s ‘zero Covid’ strategy

29 August 2020 9:00 am

Is China’s virus strategy paying off?

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How Britain can tame China

23 July 2020 11:18 pm

Chinese leaders love to use the phrase ‘win-win’, but they actually hope to win twice and leave other nations in…

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Taiwan, the WHO and the tactical struggle in US-China relations

12 May 2020 2:18 am

Over the coming weeks, a battle between Washington and Beijing over the inclusion of Taiwan as an observer at the…

government

How government can learn from disasters

11 May 2020 10:17 pm

Soon enough, Congress will hold hearings to investigate the federal response to the Wuhan virus pandemic. It is almost a…

fourth turning

Are we now in a Fourth Turning Crisis?

28 April 2020 2:01 am

Back in 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe released The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy that articulated a roughly 80-year…

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Half of Americans want their state to sue China for coronavirus damages

25 April 2020 6:49 am

Public opinion is rapidly turning against China as and intelligence agencies have exposed the full extent of the communist state’s…

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The fatality rate of our CCP virus overreaction

22 April 2020 6:05 am

This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. I think it was Sir Charles Dilke…

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Sovereignty rules

15 April 2020 1:55 am

This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Washington, DC At the end of…

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French Hill: Congress should conduct ‘full oversight’ of WHO funding

11 April 2020 12:52 am

Rep. French Hill is on board with President Trump’s threat to withhold funding from the World Health Organization because of…

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The case for reopening the country now

10 April 2020 6:57 am

More and more people, I suspect, are padding about muttering lines from Psalm 13: ‘How long, O Lord,…How long must I…

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Questioning coronavirus origins is not a conspiracy

5 April 2020 6:13 am

The exact origins of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, remain unknown. We know only that it began in the Wuhan province…

world

How will the world be changed by the war against coronavirus?

3 April 2020 4:06 am

The world as we have known it for the past 40 years has come to a stop. We have a…

democrats

The Democrats just made a huge mistake

24 March 2020 6:55 am

‘Never let a good crisis go to waste.’ When Rahm Emanuel said that during the economic meltdown of 2008-2009, his…

covid-19

COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda

12 March 2020 11:26 pm

The president delivered an address last night about the Wuhan flu, aka novel coronavirus, aka (if you want to sound…

China’s response to coronavirus shows a one-party state in action

1 February 2020 9:00 am

The handling of the coronavirus shows a one-party state in action

The whole of China is in an eerie state of shutdown

1 February 2020 9:00 am

 Shanghai ‘Do you want me to scan your temperature?’ asks the receptionist, brandishing an infrared thermometer. Arriving at my hotel…