Covid-19

The BBC quoted epidemiologist Wu Zunyou as saying that this may be the beginning of a 'first wave'. He has predicted that the second wave will be in late January when mass travel due to the Chinese New Year celebrations will spread infection.

After facing widespread protests over its zero-covid policy, China backtracked and relaxed its draconian restrictions.

The Zhengzhou plant of Foxconn which earlier employed over 2,00,000 workers, is facing violent protests by employees since November.

Some of the protestors in different cities were seen holding a blank paper in their hands in support of the recent anti-COVID demonstration held in China.

Dr Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of at Stanford University, was one of the victims of Twitter's arbitrary blacklisting policy.

Last month, in three separate cases, the US government charged 13 individuals, including members of China's security and intelligence apparatus and their agents, for alleged efforts to unlawfully exert influence in the United States for the benefit of their government.

ED also seized cash and incriminating documents and froze the properties of various persons involved in this case.

Other than Blank Page Revolution, people are calling it White Paper Revolution and A4 Revolution, referring to the size of the blank paper.

China is following a strict zero-covid policy. It is the world's last program of its sort, due in part to the country's poor vaccination coverage and an effort to safeguard the elders.

Reports suggest that experts in the United Kingdom aided in stopping the covid lab leak theory and dismissed it despite knowing that it is a possibility..