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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 19:52 UTC

Tag: Zhou Xianwang

  • Wednesday, March 18th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

    Whatever you call it, Beijing has made a mess of the Covid-19, 'China virus' and jinbu

    Chinese cultural tradition of blaming the messenger, is still alive and kicking in the Communist Party, and deterred local officials from reporting a dangerous virus

    By Gwynne Dyer – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has run afoul of the language police. Last week, he called the coronavirus, which already has killed 0.000013 percent of the world’s population, the “Wuhan virus.” When challenged about this criminal violation of linguistic propriety, he just said it again. The World Health Organization (WHO) was shocked.