even academic experts who study china. as a result, europe has all but pulled out of the deal. or take china s relations with australia, one of the main trading partners. australia has been assertive on trade and human rights but always worked to maintain constructive lags. 4 last year they called for an independent inquiry into the origins of covid-19. in response, china had what could only be called a freak-out. beijing hit australia with all kinds of trade restrictions and the chinese embassy in australia issued an extraordinary charge sheet of 14 grievances accusing australia of poisoning bilateral relations and demanding that the country s media and think tanks stop writing negative things about china. in april, the australian government canceled belt and road agreements made with china. all considered china s handling of relations with india.
intervene when you have a pandemic. that is becoming the official plan of the government and it is in the cdc. now the irony here is the cdc was regarded as the world s great health organization, spread this idea to other countries and like australia, australia has contained the virus using the playbook the cdc handed them. so either countries executed our plan much better than we did. of course it is too simplistic to say it is just that plan. it was a plan, but the plan is was easily adopted to covid and we did not for a bunch of reasons, did not completely internalize the plan. next on gps , michael lewis will tell us more about the woman who predicted the severity of the covid-19 pandemic. that story and more when we come back. [sfx: kids laughing]
house, these two guys and they re real doctors, like an oncologists and an icu doctor reexamine what happened in 1918 and write persuasive papers about how the reason that st. louis had a fraction of the death rate of philadelphia was that they introduced these interventions earlier in relation to the arrival of the disease. and this wisdom ends up being buried in a plan about how you intervene when you have a pandemic. that becomes the official plan of the government and it is in the cdc. now the irony here is the cdc was regarded as the world s great health organization, spread this idea to other countries. australia has contained the virus using the playbook the cdc handed them. so other countries executed our plan much better than we did. of course it is too simplistic to say it is just that plan. it was a plan, but the plan is was easily adopted to
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or al arabiya. one of their reporters famously quit today in protest. we ve been talking to her. she quit saying she needed to tell the truth and was going down into tahrir square to be with egyptians. you don t want to carry a camera down there. i was talking to a couple of colleagues who said that the tension down there is such that you really don t want to walk outside the protection of the building you re in because you will get attacked. chad and i were talking about the cyclone yazi that hit australia. it was a category 5, the highest for a cyclone. in this country you would call it a hurricane. it spins in the opposite direction. the biggest ever to hit australia in living or recorded memory. winds of 300 kilometers. 1 0 miles an hour. it s down to a cat 1 now but still got enormous amounts of rain. it dumped like i think i m trying to put it into nonmetric,