In the first hour, we will have Amy Hao’s story. After which, we will host Scott Lai Taiwan’s Director General.
After more than a year of mainstream news outlets decrying the theory that COVID19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, after more than a year of Twitter and Facebook removing or “fact checking” posts suggesting the same, there has now been an abrupt change of perspective. The “lab leak theory” has now moved to center stage as a highly plausible explanation. Well, if the main stream can be that wrong for that long, then what really did cause the outbreak? Is there a natural explanation involving a chance encounter between a bat, a pangolin and a bowl of soup? Was there an accident at a lab? Or is there an even more sinister explanation? Join us for the second hour discussion on where COVID came from.
Taiwan’s Director General Scott Lai
Welcome new Director-General Ming Chi Scott Lai of TECO in San Francisco!
https://www.roc-taiwan.org/ussfo_en/post/2780.html
G-7 Countries Back Taiwan’s Observer Status in World Health Assembly
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/g-7-countries-back-taiwans-observer-status-world-health-assembly
Blinken calls for Taiwan to join World Health Assembly in opposition to China
https://thehill.com/policy/international/552370-blinken-calls-for-taiwan-to-join-world-health-assembly-in-opposition-to
The Taboo on the COVID Lab-Leak Theory Lifts
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-taboo-on-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-lifts/
Saagar Enjeti: NYT Journo ADMITS Biased Coverup Of Lab Leak Hypothesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxr6mLG8uzA
As New Evidence Emerges For COVID “Lab-Leak” Theory, Journalists Who Screamed “Conspiracy” Humiliate Themselves
https://mtracey.substack.com/p/as-new-evidence-emerges-for-covid
“Disinformation” is the New Disinformation
The media’s dismissal of the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis tells us much more about the media than about the hypothesis.
https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/disinformation-is-the-new-disinformation
When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/18/mike-bloomberg-lp-nda-china/
How much support does the Chinese Communist Party really have?
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-much-support-does-the-chinese-communist-party-really-have/
Bitcoin falls further as China cracks down on crypto-currencies
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57169726
Why China crypto crackdown sparked a bitcoin crash — and could feed a backlash
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-chinas-crypto-crackdown-helped-spark-a-bitcoin-crash-and-could-feed-a-backlash-11621454947