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My colleagues and I have won the Pulitzer prize for International Reporting.
An incredible honor. And a real team effort.
Dake Kang
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Dake Kang
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中文名：姜大翼｜Journalist @AP Beijing | 伟大时代的记录者 @美联社北京分社. 推特现在不让没有被验证的账户发私信，你可以用微信联系我（dakekang) 或者电报, Signal, WhatsApp (+1 201 937 9797). 邮箱: [email protected].
- One more interesting tidbit in the Hu Jintao affair today: The man helping up Hu is Kong Shaoxun (孔绍逊), the deputy director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee. His boss is Ding Xuexiang, widely expected to be on the next Standing Committee.
- Protests erupting across the country, demanding the end of zero covid restrictions. Really feels like things are getting to a breaking point.南京传媒学院 同学们一起点亮灯光 齐声高喊 人民万岁！逝者安息！
00:00 - Story time: I was once an intern reporter for the Times of India in Delhi, and went to a Korea-India FDI conference (because ofc what else do you do with the Korean American intern). There I met a POSCO rep who had struggled to get land for a steel plant for nearly a decade...
- I just came back from two harrowing days traveling from emergency ward to emergency ward around Baoding in Hebei, one of the first areas hit by the current wave. The situation is very grim. ICU units totally overwhelmed.My latest #ThoughtofDayonChina: Fever meds in short supply, hospitals overwhelmed, blood shortage, death tolls soaring among the elderly, morgues overflown with body bags --Why China has a man-made crisis after "sudden reopening" wangxiangwei.substack.com/p/fever-meds-i…
00:00 - 1/A few days ago, files from a contractor for Chinese police quietly dumped online went viral. But though analysts thought the files authentic, they weren't 100% confident. Now, after a visit to the company's offices, I can confirm the leak is real:
- Replying to @dakekangIn video we captured, we can see Kong returning back and chatting with Xi at 11:53, about half an hour after Hu was escorted off the stage at 11:19. It appears that Kong comes and is asking something of Xi. Xi says something, Kong nods twice, then walks off.
00:00 - 1/When China suddenly scrapped zero-COVID in December, people were bewildered by the country's lack of preparation. Millions of elderly were unvaccinated, they hadn't stockpiled antivirals. Why? We set out to find the answer. Our findings:
- 1/My dive into China's "Neican" internal reference system, and how it's been changing under Xi's rule. China's Communist Party has long used a powerful internal reporting system to learn about issues considered too sensitive for the public to know.
- 1/Visited several fever clinics in Beijing. I saw short, orderly lines, and no signs yet of overcrowding. If the medical system here can hold up for the next couple of weeks, Beijing might just make it through without a large number of fatalities, which would be a huge relief.
00:00 - As others have pointed out, there's serious factual issues with this piece, including misleading translations of key quotes. I want to point out one more issue: The contents of the WIV biosafety notice was written in *August*, NOT November. That overturns the narrative...Breaking: A new Senate report concludes that SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—likely resulted from “a research-related incident.” The report includes evidence of alarming biosecurity issues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. vntyfr.com/F6VtO8r
- The Beijing that could have been, if Mao wasn’t so enamored of Moscow on his visit circa 1950
- In China, you can pick up your iPhone, push 3 buttons, and have tasty, hot, pizza delivered to you within 15 minutes for $5. 24 hours a day.Only in a capitalist society can you pick up your iPhone push 5 buttons and have tasty, hot, pizza delivered to you within 30 mins for $15.
