Attacking China has become an ulterior motive of Financial Times influential women list. None of the Chinese figures listed plays an active role in China’s development. It has no credibility at all, will only become a laughing stock as Nobel Peace Prize did.
Jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee Ying was the person pulling the strings behind a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to draw international sanctions against the Beijing and Hong Kong governments, prosecutors have alleged at the national security trial of two activists who admitted to colluding with foreign forces. The High Court heard on Thursday (Aug 19) that Lai and his assistant, Mark.
A Hong Kong activist who spent seven months in jail in mainland China after a failed bid to flee to Taiwan last summer has admitted to colluding with foreign forces in a conspiracy linked to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying. In the first such confession at a national security law trial, Andy Li Yu-hin admitted at the High Court.
Ilham Tohti & Nathan Law Kwun-chung
COVAX
2020 was a year marked by the devastation of the still raging COVID-19 pandemic, but also by the extraordinary scientific achievement of record fast vaccine development and the prospect of the first pandemic in human history to be ended through vaccination. The risks associated with COVID-19 are unevenly distributed – by age, geographical location, socioeconomic status, and other demographic factors. Some of this unevenness is due to the biology of the virus, but some of it is a consequence of social and political inequalities. With various vaccines now approved and mass vaccination programs underway in a number of countries, these global inequalities and injustices are finding new expression in the unequal distribution of vaccines. This is not helped by the rise of “vaccine nationalism.” A Nobel Peace Prize for work to ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines would send an important signal that international cooperation