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China gets German children s book about COVID withdrawn
German publisher Carlsen-Verlag has, at the urging of the Chinese embassy, taken a children s book off the market, because it implies a direct link between COVID-19 and China.
The wording will be changed in the next edition of A Corona Rainbow for Anna and Moritz
Whenever China is blamed for starting the COVID-19 pandemic, its government reacts. By describing it as the Chinese virus, former US President Trump drew Beijing s ire for making the country responsible for the pandemic situation. World Health Organization (WHO) experts visiting China were also treated with more than just suspicion when they arrived at Wuhan province to investigate the origins of the virus.
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10 Mar 2021
A German children’s book that stated that the coronavirus came from China has been pulped after the publisher caved to pressure from Communist Party diplomats and local Chinese people.
The book which was published in the summer of last year is entitled A Corona Rainbow for Anna and Moritz. The book tried to help children understand the radically different world they found themselves in following the pandemic.
In the picture book, the childrens’ father says: “The virus comes from China and has spread out from there across the whole world,” according to
The Times.
The book was based on advice from a tropical medicine institute in Hamburg.
No form of censorship is more corrosive than self-censorship, as stifling the expression of one’s thoughts for fear of causing offence has no natural limit. A German publishing house has just