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How China Is Deploying Drones and
Data to Tackle Coronavirus WSJ 9 March 2020
How China Is Deploying Drones and Data to Tackle Coronavirus
Video WSJ
9 March 2020
From drones that scold to neighbors who snitch,
China is relying on its vast surveillance network
to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
WSJ takes a close look
at its national monitoring experiment
that’s made up of human volunteers and big data.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awfoSQ0mVGg
The coronavirus cat rescuer of Wuhan The Guardian 14 February 2020
The coronavirus
cat rescuer of Wuhan Video
The Guardian 14 February 2020
It is estimated
that more than
30,000 pets have been left stranded
after the Chinese
government sealed off Wuhan
following the
coronavirus outbreak.
In response,
people trapped in Wuhan have been volunteering
and checking in on
the animals
whose owners are stuck outside the city.
Here's Ye Jialin's
story of helping
those who are currently
not allowed to return home
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCmYk_f1uw
China Doesn't Like That I'm a Single Woman,
Here's Why NYT 13 February 2020
China Doesn't
Like That I'm a Single Woman, Here's Why | Op-Docs
Video The New York Times
13 February 2020
“Sheng nu”
(“leftover women”)
is a term used
to describe
single women who are 27 or older in China.
Most of these
women live in cities
and lead rewarding professional lives.
The term was
coined in 2007
by a government organization
responsible
for the protection
and promotion of women’s rights and policies.
That same
year,
the Ministry of Education added
“sheng nu” to the official lexicon.
In this
Op-Doc,
based on the
Independent Lens
feature documentary “Leftover Women,”
we follow one
of those women — Qiu Huamei,
contending
with the stigma and social pressure
forcing her to go on a
grueling quest
in search of a husband.
She grew up
in
a small village five hours south of Beijing
and is the
second youngest of five sisters.
Ms. Qiu is a
successful lawyer,
fluent in English and opinionated
— but those
qualities do not outweigh one key flaw:
She is not married.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCVS20gj_8
How China Trains
the World’s Autocrats to Surveil Their People NYT 24 April 2019
How China Trains the World’s
Autocrats to Surveil Their People
Video The
New York Times 24 April 2019
Is Chinese-style surveillance
becoming normalized?
A Times investigation
found the Chinese surveillance
state
is spreading past its borders.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8WAIFatAqw

A factory
worker
in Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia, in 2005.
Due to a lack
of environmental safety standards
they would get
ill after one or two years on the job.
Photograph:
Lu Guang/Contact Press Images
Opinion
A Photographer
Goes Missing in China
Lu Guang’s
images
have shown the world China’s dark side.
NYT
Dec. 8, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/
opinion/sunday/lu-guang-photographer-missing-china.html
China
FR / UK / USA
https://www.npr.org/series/650482198/chinas-global-influence
https://www.theguardian.com/world/
china
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/15/
the-eye-of-the-storm-how-76-days-captured-wuhans-covid-lockdown-up-close
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/15/
new-year-new-outbreak-china-rushes-to-vaccinate-50-million-as-holiday-season-looms
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/13/
956282429/province-in-china-on-lockdown-after-biggest-coronavirus-spike-in-months
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/07/
great-walls-of-china-beijings-burgeoning-graffiti-scene-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/15/
marianne-faithfull-i-was-in-a-dark-place-presumably-it-was-death
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/dec/31/
wuhan-a-year-after-covid-struck-everyone-wants-to-reset-2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/
world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/29/
951258654/u-s-and-eu-condemn-jailing-of-lawyer-who-reported-on-coronavirus-in-wuhan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/21/
hong-kong-activist-nathan-law-applies-for-asylum-in-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/21/
hong-kong-london-uk-eu-china-asulum
https://www.propublica.org/article/
leaked-documents-show-how-chinas-army-of-paid-internet-trolls-
helped-censor-the-coronavirus - Dec. 19, 2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/19/
947946765/a-doc-about-wuhans-lockdown-was-too-real-for-my-wuhan-born-dad-im-glad-i-watched
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/17/
hector-retamal-agency-photographer-of-year-2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/
938876826/for-chinas-overburdened-delivery-workers-the-customer-and-app-is-always-right
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/
world/asia/covid-coronavirus-china-wuhan.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/
913650298/as-u-s-views-of-china-grow-more-negative-chinese-support-for-their-government-ri
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/18/
a-12-storey-pig-farm-has-china-found-a-way-to-stop-future-pandemics-
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/30/
world/asia/china-1950s-echoed-today.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/22/
893767828/timeline-the-unraveling-of-u-s-china-relations
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/jul/14/
is-uk-golden-era-relations-china-over-podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/14/
china-global-leadership-beijing-coronavirus
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/14/
855122795/wuhan-diary-brings-account-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-to-english-speakers
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/
health/coronavirus-hospital-aerosols.html
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2020/apr/25/
reporting-in-wuhan-i-thought-sars-wouldnt-be-repeated-this-was-worse
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/
coronavirus-exposed-china-history-racism-africans-guangzhou
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/
donald-trump-bank-of-china-debt-report
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/
us/politics/coronavirus-china-disinformation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/
business/china-coronavirus-propaganda.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/
to-understand-the-medical-supply-shortage-it-helps-to-know-
how-the-us-lost-the-lithium-ion-battery-to-china - April 21, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/
us-urges-china-to-let-human-rights-lawyer-return-home-after-unjust-detention
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/20/
people-have-been-awakened-seeking-covid-19-answers-in-wuhan
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/
business/media/coronavirus-us-china-journalists.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/
business/china-coronavirus-economy.html
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/160420/
les-silences-coupables-de-la-chine
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/160420/
l-oms-une-marionnette-chinoise
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/13/
832995379/china-reports-169-new-coronavirus-cases-highest-in-5-weeks
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/
technology/coronavirus-doctor-whistleblower-weibo.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/
china-infections-rise-as-some-spanish-companies-prepare-to-restart-work
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/
us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/
britons-evacuated-from-wuhan-regret-coming-home-coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/
chinese-writer-fang-fang-faces-online-backlash-wuhan-lockdown-diary
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/10/
829842284/a-son-in-wuhan-wants-a-moment-alone-with-his-fathers-remains-the-government-says
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/
831988148/white-house-attacks-voice-of-america-over-china-coronavirus-coverage
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/
business/economy/coronavirus-china-economy-stimulus.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/08/
829929473/expat-in-post-lockdown-wuhan-things-will-never-be-the-same
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/08/
829574902/as-chinas-wuhan-ends-its-long-quarantine-residents-feel-a-mix-of-joy-and-fear
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/apr/08/
wuhan-ends-coronavirus-lockdown-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/
world/asia/trump-who-coronavirus-china.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/
critic-xi-jinping-clown-ren-z
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/
world/asia/wuhan-coronavirus.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/
liberation-as-wuhans-coronavirus-lockdown-ends-after-76-days
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/
china-reports-zero-daily-deaths-from-coronavirus-for-the-first-time-since-january
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/
china-outraged-after-brazil-minister-suggests-covid-19-is-part-of-plan-for-world-domination
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/
china-quarantines-human-rights-lawyer-wang-quanzhang-400km-from-home
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/
world/asia/coronavirus-china-students.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/
its-not-so-easy-to-return-from-the-dead-coming-back-to-life-after-lockdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/
us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/04/
823825436/the-wuhan-i-know-a-comic-about-the-city-behind-the-coronavirus-headlines
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/03/
826140766/china-enters-the-next-phase-of-its-covid-19-outbreak-suppression
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/
business/china-ren-zhiqiang-censorship.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/
china-steps-up-western-media-campaign-over-coronavirus-crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/
us/politics/china-russia-coronavirus-disinformation.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/
chinas-coronavirus-health-code-apps-raise-concerns-over-privacy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/
china-pivots-to-tackle-silent-covid-19-carriers-as-us-says-a-quarter-of-cases-may-have-no-symptoms
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/mar/30/
lockdown-china-coronavirus-outbreak
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/
business/economy/coronavirus-china-supplies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/
world/asia/coronavirus-china.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/29/
china-coronavirus-anti-foreigner-feeling-imported-cases
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/
world/asia/china-coronavirus-wuhan.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/
world/asia/coronavirus-china-youth.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/
us/politics/china-russia-coronavirus-disinformation.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/
how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus
- March 26, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/
business/coronavirus-china-masks.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/
coronavirus-tightens-grip-on-us-as-china-reports-second-day-with-no-domestic-cases
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/19/
818155927/china-reports-no-new-domestic-cases-but-battles-coronavirus-imported-from-abroad
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/19/
818295972/chinese-authorities-admit-improper-response-to-coronavirus-whistleblower
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/
china-reports-no-domestic-cases-of-coronavirus-for-first-time-since-outbreak-began
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/
chinas-coronavirus-lockdown-strategy-brutal-but-effective
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/
world/asia/china-coronavirus-zero-infections.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/
world/asia/coronavirus-china-aid.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/
technology/china-schools-coronavirus.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/
trump-calls-covid-19-the-chinese-virus-as-rift-with-coronavirus-beijing-escalates
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20200317/
china-coronavirus-internet-police/zh-hant/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/
technology/china-schools-coronavirus.html
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/
20200317/china-coronavirus-internet-police/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/
business/china-coronavirus-internet-police.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/
business/wuhan-coronavirus-journalists.html
Wuhan closes last
makeshift coronavirus hospital
as China's infection rate falls
Video
Guardian 10 March 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/mar/10/
wuhan-closes-last-makeshift-coronavirus-hospital-video
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/
business/masks-china-coronavirus.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/
800118582/i-thought-it-would-be-safe-uighurs-in-turkey-now-fear-china-s-long-arm
How China Is Deploying Drones and Data to Tackle Coronavirus
Video WSJ 9 March 2020
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=awfoSQ0mVGg
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/
world/asia/china-coronavirus-cost.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/03/
809965742/personal-essay-from-wuhan-living-in-hell
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/
world/asia/china-coronavirus-wuhan.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/17/
806584471/rights-activist-xu-zhiyong-arrested-in-china-amid-crackdown-on-dissent
China Doesn't Like That I'm a Single Woman, Here's Why
Video - The New York Times - 13 February 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCVS20gj_8
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/11/
804737888/beijing-takes-direct-control-over-coronavirus-response-in-hubei-province
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/feb/04/
daily-life-in-wuhan-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/
world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/
world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/
business/china-coronavirus-business.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/
world/asia/coronavirus-china.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/
world/asia/china-coronavirus-epidemic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/
world/asia/wuhan-china-coronavirus-evacuations.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/
health/coronavirus-masks-hoarding.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/
business/china-coronavirus-economy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/
world/asia/china-coronavirus-photos.html
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=dEkliuqQo-g
Video - NYT - 30 December 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/
technology/china-surveillance.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/
world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/
759902041/chinas-tech-giant-huawei-spans-much-of-the-globe-despite-u-s-efforts-to-ban-it
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/08/
764153179/china-has-begun-moving-xinjiang-muslim-detainees-to-formal-prisons-relatives-say
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/
761962531/people-are-looking-at-your-linkedin-profile-they-might-be-chinese-spies
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/06/
753478775/inside-chinas-crackdown-on-human-rights-advocates
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=RbN-yF5d2QU -
NYT - 19 August 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/21/
725358387/a-dream-of-modern-china
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/
716347646/why-is-china-placing-a-global-bet-on-coal
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=p8WAIFatAqw
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/
opinion/huawei-united-states-lawsuit.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/
700474697/chinas-close-government-business-ties-are-a-key-challenge-in-u-s-trade-talks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/
world/asia/china-coronavirus-doctors.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/08/
803766743/critics-say-china-has-suppressed-and-censored-information-in-coronavirus-outbrea
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/
685100866/trump-following-explosive-news-reports-denies-he-worked-for-russia
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/jan/14/
china-muslim-uighur-detention-camps-podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/
if-you-enter-a-camp-you-never-come-out-inside-chinas-war-on-islam
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/
682133702/u-s-officials-view-china-as-americas-primary-long-term-threat-to-power
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/
world/asia/china-wang-quanzhang-lawyer-trial.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/
opinion/sunday/lu-guang-photographer-missing-china.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/
674163524/bolton-u-s-wont-turn-a-blind-eye-to-chinas-trade-practices
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/
661788176/my-family-has-been-broken-pakistanis-fear-for-uighur-wives-held-in-china
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/
666287509/ex-detainee-describes-torture-in-chinas-xinjiang-re-education-camp
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/
665597190/families-of-the-disappeared-a-search-for-loved-ones-held-in-chinas-xinjiang-regi
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/
654281939/chinese-leaders-aim-to-shape-how-the-world-perceives-their-country
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/
636299830/how-the-chinese-government-works-to-censor-debate-in-western-democracies
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/
654084691/china-wants-to-end-trade-war-but-u-s-position-keeps-changing-ambassador-says
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/
654088777/transcript-nprs-interview-with-china-s-ambassador-to-the-u-s
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/
639636532/chinese-companies-get-tech-savvy-gobbling-up-germanys-factories
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/
638297986/will-moroccos-chinese-funded-tech-city-ever-break-ground
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/
627249909/australia-and-new-zealand-are-ground-zero-for-chinese-influence
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/
653312942/china-unbound-what-an-emboldened-china-means-for-the-world
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/
628315251/u-s-and-china-trade-war-which-one-can-endure-the-pain-the-better
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/
627871537/trump-administration-readies-tariffs-on-200-billion-of-chinese-imports
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/
627573168/china-allows-widow-of-prominent-dissident-to-leave-the-country
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/
626453571/china-says-u-s-has-begun-largest-trade-war-in-history-retaliates-with-tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/
opinion/sunday/china-surveillance-state-uighurs.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/18/
578814234/china-reports-its-fastest-economic-growth-in-7-years
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/01/02/
574471694/chinas-most-popular-mobile-game-charges-into-american-market
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/01/01/
573773442/emboldened-by-a-strengthening-economy-china-flexes-its-diplomatic-muscles
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/24/
559004647/what-is-the-motivation-behind-chinese-president-xi-jinpings-anti-corruption-driv
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/18/
558523037/for-clues-to-chinas-crackdown-on-public-expression-look-to-its-economy
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/10/
553484924/in-china-scholars-are-being-punished-amid-growing-squeeze-on-public-expression
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/26/
553463964/wary-of-unrest-among-uighur-minority-china-locks-down-xinjiang-province
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/11/
542904162/india-steps-up-alert-amid-heightened-tensions-with-china
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/07/13/
535965814/chinese-nobel-peace-laureate-and-human-rights-advocate-liu-xiaobo-dies
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/
522879370/trump-can-t-bring-all-those-jobs-back-from-china-here-s-what-he-can-do
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/
opinion/sunday/how-china-fell-off-the-miracle-path.html
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If It Were My Home
The headlines tell a lot
about the crisis in Yemen:
internal strife,
evacuations
of international aid workers,
Saudi Arabian airstrikes.
But you may have
one very basic question
that you can't easily find
an answer for:
How big is Yemen,
anyway?
You can look at maps
and check out Wikipedia
but wouldn't it be great
to just to slap an outline of Yemen
on top of a map of the United States
to get a sense of its size?
IfItWereMyHome.com
lets you do just that.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/04/10/
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http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/
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398767056/whats-bigger-yemen-or-virginia-theres-an-app-for-that
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