In October, in front of leaders from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, Xi Jinping stood triumphant in a celebratory keynote address celebrating the tenth birthday of his Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The speech, delivered at the BRI Forum, championed the initiative’s successes and charted a path toward a version 2.0 that will be smaller,
The story, reported from the BBC to the Telegraph to the Guardian, was this: ‘Black women most likely to die in medieval London plague’. The subheading was: ‘Museum of London study also claims “misogynoir” – prejudice against women of African descent – increased deaths during 14th-century disease.’