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‘Blame China, praise Taiwan’ - what's behind the strange narrative of Western powers?
The West is irrationally elevating the Chinese island’s response to the outbreak above its neighbour's purely to score political points, explains KENNY COYLE
People in Taiwan wear faces masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
BRITAIN’S shambolic response to the Covid-19 crisis has become an international scandal as well as a domestic disgrace. The situation in the US, despite Trump’s bluster, is no better.
The recently concluded World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) should have concentrated on global co-operation to research and fight the coronavirus.
Instead it became a shadow war over the international status of the island of Taiwan whose official name is the Republic of China (ROC), and attempts to cast the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the worst possible light.
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