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Nectar Gan
@Nectar_Gan
China economy & government reporter @business. Formerly @CNN @SCMPNews. Email: [email protected]
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    Nectar Gan
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    Feb 28, 2020
    This is beyond shocking China shut down the lab that published the world’s first genome sequence of the #coronavirus last month, barring its scientists from finding ways to contain the outbreak Their only crime? Publishing the sequence before authorities
    scmp.com
    Lab that first shared coronavirus sequence closed for ‘rectification’
    No reason was given for the closure of the Shanghai facility, which released information about the virus ahead of authorities. One source at the laboratory said the closure has hampered scientists’...
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    Nectar Gan
    @Nectar_Gan
    Feb 6, 2020
    This Weibo post by Li Wenliang from 2012 is now flooded with tributes "Dear friends, from today, you may not be able to reach me anymore, because I'm going to save the Earth. If the sun still rises tomorrow, it means I made it. You don't need to thank me, it‘s what I should do!"
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    Nectar Gan
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    Jun 23, 2020
    Words from @MichaelKovrig in a 90-square-feet Beijing jail cell. If you can, pause a moment to read his letters to his wife. It moved me to tears: dlvr.it/RZ937k "If there’s one faint silver lining to this Hell, it’s this...
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    Nectar Gan
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    Aug 10, 2019
    One of Mao’s most famous lines is now a rallying call for HK protests “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely & gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous.”
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    Nectar Gan
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    Dec 28, 2020
    #ZhangZhan, the citizen journalist jailed 4 yrs for reporting in Wuhan, became so frail during her detention that she attended today's trial in a wheelchair. She had gone on a hunger strike, but was forced fed with a feeding tube and had her hands tied. cnn.it/3hovixU
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    Nectar Gan
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    Feb 4, 2020
    All Dr. Li Wenliang wanted was to save lives. Instead, he was silenced by the #Wuhan police for "rumourmongering" and contracted the #coronavirus when treating one of his patients. He spoke to us from an intensive care bed in hospital. @yongxiong2008 cnn.it/395UK5M
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    Nectar Gan
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    Feb 6, 2020
    The two trending topics censored by Weibo tonight: # Wuhan government owes Dr. Li Wenliang an apology # # We want freedom of speech # Both had tens of thousands of views before disappearing into this dark night.
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    Nectar Gan
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    Feb 8, 2020
    So now Chinese people are even denied the right to be angry. Their outburst of anger over Li Wenliang’s death, we are told, did not come from themselves. It was merely a product of sabotage by “overseas separatists.” # I want freedom of anger #
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    Global Times
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    Feb 8, 2020
    Taking Li's death as a tool to stir up anti-govt sentiment on Chinese social media is part of overseas separatists' customary tactics, as they used in #HK protest. Such move is obnoxious and childish, said experts. bit.ly/2SrlLtL
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    Nectar Gan
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    Feb 5, 2020
    Shocking details in this damming @caixin interview with a Wuhan ICU doctor: - National health experts set ridiculously strict criteria for diagnosing coronavirus cases against all advice - 40 medics infected in a hospital considered a low figure - In one ICU, 2/3 medics infected
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    Nectar Gan
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    Feb 28, 2020
    Replying to @Nectar_Gan
    “The lab at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre was ordered to close for “rectification” on January 12, a day after Prof. Zhang Yongzhen’s team published the genome sequence on open platforms. The release of the data helped researchers develop test kits for the virus.”
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    Nectar Gan
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    Nov 20, 2021
    “She will show up in public and participate in some activities soon.” Doesn’t sound like someone is controlling her movements at all.
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    Hu Xijin 胡锡进
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    Nov 20, 2021
    I confirmed through my own sources today that these photos are indeed Peng Shuai's current state. In the past few days, she stayed in her own home freely and she didn't want to be disturbed. She will show up in public and participate in some activities soon.
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    Nectar Gan
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    Feb 15, 2020
    Just revealed: Xi already held a Politburo Standing Committee meeting on how to contain the #CoronavirusOutbreak on January 7 (not reported by state media at the time). That was when Wuhan officials were blamed for downplaying the outbreak.
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    Nectar Gan
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    May 11, 2022
    Tedros is being censored in China after calling zero-Covid unsustainable. The WHO’s official press account on Weibo posted Tedros’ comments early this morning. It drew a wave of sarcastic comments from users critical of zero-Covid. An hour later the post is “no longer viewable.”
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    Nectar Gan
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    Nov 13, 2019
    Chinese University of Hong Kong just announced the semester is now over, ending it a month early and cancelling all remaining classes.