theguardian.com China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest Apr. 11th, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/china-clamping-down-on-coronavirus-research-deleted-pages-suggest China is cracking down on publication of academic research about the origins of the novel coronavirus, in what is likely to be part of a wider attempt to control the narrative surrounding the pandemic, documents published online by Chinese universities appear to show. Two websites for leading Chinese universities appear to have recently published and then removed pages that reference a new policy requiring academic papers dealing with Covid-19 to undergo extra vetting before they are submitted for publication. Research on the origins of the virus is particularly sensitive and subject to checks by government officials, the notices posted on the websites of Fudan University and the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) said. Both the deleted pages were accessed from online caches. the first weeks of the pandemic – when there was a cover-up by local officials – may be considered particularly sensitive. “If these documents are authentic it would suggest the government really wants to control the narrative about the origins of Covid-19 very tightly,” said Tsang of the reports of new regulations. China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) appears to have published and then deleted new requirements that academic papers dealing with the origins of the virus be approved by China’s ministry of science and technology before publication. The university’s academic committee was expected to first go through the research “with an emphasis on checking the accuracy of the thesis, as well as whether it is suitable for publication,” the regulation said. “When the checks have been completed, the school should report to the Ministry of Science and Technology [MOST], and it should only be published after it has [also] been checked by MOST,” it said. Despite its name, the geosciences university announced elsewhere on its website that it was carrying out coronavirus research. A separate document obtained by the Guardian, which could not be independently verified, appears to be from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University and also said publication of research into the origins of Covid-19 would need approval from the science and technology ministry. Another notice, which appears to have been published on 9 April by the school of information science and technology at Fudan University in Shanghai, called for “strict and serious” management of papers investigating the source of the outbreak. Papers could only be submitted for publication after being approved by a special office. Email, names and phone numbers provided on the notice suggested that office was part of China’s ministry of education. A source who alerted the Guardian to cached versions of the websites, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they were concerned by what appeared to be an attempt by Chinese authorities to intervene in the independence of the scientific process. The person said researchers submitting academic papers on other medical topics did not have to vet their work with government ministries before seeking publication. A technical analysis of the cached websites indicated that the posts were published on verified university websites before they were removed. The Guardian could not independently verify that they reflected a new government policy. The notices appear to be part of a broader push to manage research on the virus. The science and technology ministry said on 3 April that ongoing clinical research on the coronavirus must be reported to authorities within three days or be halted. In March China’s president, Xi Jinping, published an essay that included “tracing the origin of the virus” on a list of national priorities. It was referenced by the science and technology ministry shortly before the universities posted their orders. The Chinese government did not reply to a request for comment sent by the Guardian to the Chinese embassy in Washington. While the exact origin of the pandemic is still not certain, one commonly held hypothesis is that it began following an interaction between a human and an animal at the Huanan seafood “wet market” in Wuhan. Scientists have said the virus probably originated in bats and then passed through an intermediary animal before infecting the first human. Scientists believe the transmission was similar to that in the 2002 outbreak of Sars. Some criticism of China has focused on why the government did not shut down wet markets after the previous outbreaks of coronaviruses. Kevin Carrico, a senior research fellow of Chinese studies at Monash University, said he was not aware of any specific recent change to rules for academic research in China in connection to Covid-19, but the documents were generally consistent with efforts by China to control the narrative of the pandemic. “They are seeking to transform it from a massive disaster to one where the government did everything right and gave the rest of the world time to prepare,” Carrico said. Carrico said those efforts had been evident in communications ranging from government pronouncements at the highest level to public sentiment on social media. “There is a desire to a degree to deny realities that are staring at us in the face … that this is a massive pandemic that originated in a place that the Chinese government really should have cleaned up after Sars,” he said. Around a month ago senior Chinese diplomats, officials and state media all publicly encouraged speculation that the new coronavirus could have come from outside the country. The foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian suggested without evidence that the US military might have brought the virus to Wuhan.
You're the king of fake news. I'm 100% convinced that you work for the same lying pieces of shit that started this fake Coronavirus crap. You just keep going even though about 70% of the world know it's all a coverup for something else that's happening or about to happen. The proof is all around us and you keep going. Like your superiors are telling you to keep grinding until the wheels fall completely off.
yet another redistribution of wealth and assault on civil liberties and as a matter of fact, Russia is the only country that benefits from this whole game
real news: the poor get poorer the rich get richer, governments help this process to go on. do not know about USA, in Russia small business is destroyed, big ones are full of cash and begin to invest this cash anywhere. Firstly, buy the commercial real estate from bankrupted small guys. Secondly, buy the client base (it is valid for IT, service companies, etc. where client base is valuable asset). And so on. example: all the small cafes in Moscow are closed because of quarantine but the local government admitted McDonalds like ‘strategically important business’ and allow to keep working for take away and delivery. The average sale of McDonalds before C19 was 3.3$, now 11.5$, the av. amount of purchases was 2500, now 700. So revenue was 8250$ and now 8050$. Decline? Yep, but all halls are closed (less workers needed), rental fee declines so profit arise. I know such details because my close friend is one of the key managers of McDonalds in Moscow. Got it? McDonalds have enough resources to keep closed for many months, but the government let it work (via special permission). Small cafes do not have cash to be closed for even 1-2 month without massive personnel dismissing, but the government close them and oblige to pay at least 65% of salary the same time. After quarantine we will see a lot of closed small cafes and Mac, Burger King, KFC and other will take the free place. Catering is just example, this happen in almost all sectors. Big fish eat the small with help of government, not because of honest market competition. The point is: it’s all about the money.
[QUOTE yet another redistribution of wealth and assault on civil liberties here agree 100%. The informational context does not matter. C-19, invasion from Mars, who cares. and as a matter of fact, Russia is the only country that benefits from this whole game [/QUOTE] here I disagree read my post above regarding Russia Russia as country is in deep ass now because of oil price fall. Russian poor people are in the deepest ass possible. Russian middle class destroyed. The oligarchs are full of cash.
mr themickey, you have a way of cutting to the chase, my man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_management now, where's the hell those lambo keys get off to.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/russian...fections-found-in-china-on-saturday-1.1420586 Russian Flight Had Half of Infections Found in China on Saturday Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News 2hrs ago. (Bloomberg) -- More than half of the coronavirus infections reported by China on Sunday stemmed from a Russian flight to Shanghai the day before, underscoring the possible severity of the outbreak in Russia. Shanghai’s Municipal Health Commission said 51 of 52 imported cases on Saturday were of Chinese nationals who were diagnosed to have Covid-19 after they landed in the city. The travelers accounted for more than half of 97 imported infections China disclosed on Sunday morning. No other information was provided about the flight. Russia has emerged as a fresh source of imported virus infections for China, which seems to have tamed its own outbreak and has now pivoted toward staving off cases from elsewhere. China has grounded all but one inbound flight per week for foreign airlines in a bid to limit imported cases, but new infections have also found their way back to the country through land borders, especially the one with Russia.China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province has reported more than 100 imported infections from Russia at its land borders so far this month. Russia is tightening a lockdown of its capital amid a worsening spread of the virus that is straining local health systems. Russia on Sunday reported the number of new coronavirus cases in the country increased by 31% overnight to 2,186. That took the total to 15,770. Twenty-four deaths related to Covid-19 were reported, double the count in the previous period and bringing the nation’s total to 130.