January 2021

Over a year since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, WHO investigators were due to arrive in China.

https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-wuhan-china-united-nations-82f38100db0fa1462ec3ae74fc74cf09

However the investigators were then blocked from entering the country, while the Chinese government deleted evidence and studies from the Wuhan Laboratory.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9129681/New-cover-fears-Chinese-officials-delete-critical-data-Wuhan-lab.html

The Sinovac vaccine was shown to be barely above 50% effective.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/china-vaccine-s-low-efficacy-due-to-high-risk-group-says-ceo

And CNN reports that China is hitting back with a dangerous misinformation campaign.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/19/china/china-vaccine-disinformation-intl-hnk/index.html

A large number of Chinese warplanes deliberately entered Taiwanese airspace

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55788359

Human Rights Watch says that with persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong, China is in its darkest period since the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 when thousands of civilians were killed and wounded by the military.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-group

Dozens of pro democracy activists including lawyers, politicians and professors in Hong Kong are arrested by Chinese authorities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55555299

Chinese military affiliated companies such as China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are being de-listed from the New York stock exchange.

https://www.ft.com/content/edf87d72-8ef5-45fc-bbf5-ff84c322d396