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Robin Brant
@robindbrant
Advising on reputation and crisis. Was @bbcnews correspondent in China, Westminster, presenter. @TimesRadio @SpeakersTrust @Monocle
London, England
Joined June 2011
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    STORY The firms looking to sell snow sports in #Xinjiang off the back of @Beijing2022 and whether you can ‘divorce’ yourself from the genocide claims. That’s what @burtonsnowboard #china boss Craig Smith told me.
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    This is my exchange on @BBCWorld with @VWGroup chief exec Herbert Diess about the company’s investment in Xinjiang with its #China state owned partner SIAC
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    .@Eton_College has told @BBCNews that a number of its pupils have been ‘sanctioned’ after an investigation following an incident during a speech given by @Nigel_Farage
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    #china ‘zero covid’ in Shanghai is pushing some people over the edge. A small scale - but significant - confrontation. Almost three weeks in could we see more of this? @BBCNews @BBCWorld @bbcworldservice
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    What you see on the tele, what you don’t see on the tele @CliveMyrieBBC #china #bbcten
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    #China Wuhan has reported a single new case of #coronavirus, one of 78 confirmed new cases declared today. That means the 5 day streak of no new cases there has ended. (74 of the 78 cases are imported traveller cases acc to Govt figs.)
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    #china Shanghai easing off in #coronavirus status: SHANGHAI, March 23 (Reuters) - The government of Shanghai downgraded the city's emergency alert level on Monday from level 1 to level 2 as the coronavirus spread subsides.
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    This is the long boarded up market in Wuhan where a cluster of the first reported cases came from. Non food business on second floor still open though. The #covid19 team will almost certainly visit #china
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    Jing Guang tunnel was flooded 3 days ago, it’s not clear how many cars and their drivers mat be inside the 2km stretch #china
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    It’s going beyond Tennis. 20M+ followers.
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    This is the most important fig you will see today on #china Shanghai #Covid_19 crisis: officials revealed only 38% of the city’s over 60s are fully vaccinated. The proportion who’ve had two jabs is just 62%.
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    STORY: Dozens of elderly patients at a Shanghai hospital died after testing positive for #Covid_19 but official #china figs say #Omicron outbreak death toll in the city is zero. @BBCNews spoke to relatives and had access to official documents
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    NEWS ABOUT ME: I’m moving on from @BBCNews. This weekend will be my last, after 20+ years on the staff. I started at @BBCR1, then to Westminster, then the best job - foreign correspondent. Thanks to everyone along the way. I’ll miss the camaraderie. Onwards…
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    In the 3 hours since we walked past this spot at entrance to #CUHK #hongkong the protestors have built a wall, with mortar. Using brick from pavement.