Chinese medical portal censored after doubting herbal ‘COVID-19 remedy’

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“NO RIGHT TO BAN THEM” The Chinese government has increasingly promoted traditional medicine at home and abroad in recent years, often with nationalistic undertones. DXY’s coverage prompted criticism that it was targeting traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in order to promote Western pharmaceuticals. The decision to freeze DXY’s social media accountsContinue Reading

Marcos Jr disappointing anti-China analysts

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It is clear now that pundits within and outside the Philippines were wrong in their predictions regarding new President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr’s policy toward Beijing in the South China Sea. They had stridently criticized the policy of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte and predicted that Marcos’ policy would be significantly more favorable to the US, […]

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Assad’s strategy in southern Syria fated to fail

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Smoke rises above opposition-held areas near the city of Daraa during airstrikes by Syrian regime and allied forces on June 28. Russian planes carried out their first raids on the region in a year on June 23. Photo: AFP/ Mohamad Abazeed

On July 27, Syrian tanks rolled into the former rebel stronghold of Tafas, in western Syria’s Daraa province. The aggression, ostensibly to root out supporters of Islamic State (ISIS), came just three days after military leaders suggested the operation could be avoided if the people they sought were voluntarily handed over. Yet no matter what the government claims – or […]

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