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China
10 February 2020 The number of deaths from a coronavirus outbreak in China are pushing the total to 908 and 40 235 confirmed cases. The center of the outbreak is China's Hubei province where millions remain under lockdown and people are complaining of food shortages. There were also 3,062 new cases. There is a five-day supply of pork and eggs, and a three-day supply of vegetables. (Source: VoANews)
February 9, 2020 The travel patterns broadly track with the early spread of the virus. For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, five millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and planes as the first wave of China’s great Lunar New Year migration broke across the nation. Map location data from Chinese tech giant Baidu shows that in the two weeks before Wuhan’s lockdown, nearly 70% of trips out of the central Chinese city were within Hubei province. Another 14% of the trips went to the neighboring provinces of Henan, Hunan, Anhui and Jiangxi. Nearly 2% slipped down to Guangdong province, the coastal manufacturing powerhouse across from Hong Kong, and the rest fanned out across China. The cities outside Hubei province that were top destinations for trips from Wuhan between Jan. 10 and Jan. 24 were Chongqing, a municipality next to Hubei province, Beijing and Shanghai. Officials finally began to seal the borders on Jan. 23. The initial spread of travelers to provinces in central China with large pools of migrant workers and relatively weaker health care systems puts a big burden on the hospitals of those resource-limited provinces. Zhejiang province was not a top destination from Wuhan this year, according to Baidu data, but now has among the highest numbers of confirmed cases. Baidu gathers travel data based on more than 120 billion daily location requests from its map app and other apps that use Baidu’s location services. Only data from users who agree to share their location is recorded. Baidu’s publicly available data does not include trips by people who don’t use mobile phones or apps that rely on Baidu’s popular location services. Shanghai, Beijing and several Chinese provinces ordered businesses to remain shut through today, leaving the nation’s great megalopolises feeling like ghost towns. The top 10 global destinations for travelers from high-risk Chinese cities around Lunar New Year were Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Australia. In Africa, Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria and Kenya topped the list. (Source: WashingtonTimes)
February 9, 2020 The death toll from China’s coronavirus outbreak is climbing to 811. Hubei’s capital Wuhan opened the doors of a new 1,500-bed hospital. The municipal government of the city said it would begin carrying out twice-daily disinfection of hospitals, markets, public toilets and other facilities. Beijing unveiled sweeping food subsidies and said the government would compensate farmers and medicine producers who had to ask staff to work overtime. (Source: MorningStar)
February 8, 2020 Food stocks in supermarkets ran low shortly after Beijing imposed travel curbs and extended the Lunar New Year holiday to keep factories, offices and other businesses closed and the public at home in an attempt to prevent the virus from spreading. That also kept trucks off the road, disrupting supplies of food to markets, feed to farmers and poultry to slaughterhouses. As the shutdown of Wuhan expanded to cover cities with a total of 60 million people, villagers set up their own roadblocks to keep outsiders and possible infection away. Vegetable supplies were uneven and some “daily necessities” were sold out. Even getting out to shop is a challenge in some cities that are under almost total quarantine. Only one member of each household is allowed out each day to shop for food in Hangzhou, an industrial metropolis of 10 million people southwest of Shanghai, and in Huanggang, a city of 1 million near Wuhan. Users of China’s Weibo microblogging service have left hundreds of thousands of messages mourning Li’s death and criticizing the authorities over their treatment of him and other whistleblowers. Following the criticism, the government announced a team from Beijing would be sent to Wuhan to investigate “issues reported by the masses involving Dr. Li.
February 8, 2020 Chinese authorities said fatalities in China from the coronavirus reached a single-day high of 86 yesterday. They said they confirmed 3,399 new cases of infections from the virus that causes respiratory illnesses, bringing the total to 34,546. Globally, there have been 34,886 confirmed cases and 724 deaths, the World Health Organization said today, with over 99% of the cases and all but one death in China. (Source: WSJ):
Feb 8th 2020 Beijing starts rounding up sufferers and videos show hazmat suit-clad goons dragging people from their homes in Suzhou, near Shanghai. /videos, photos/ (Source: TheMail): https://tinyurl.com/sltf7hp
February 7, 2020 China’s web watchdog has stepped up its policing efforts, saying yesterday it could conduct “targeted supervision” on the biggest social media platforms together with Weibo, Tencent’s WeChat and ByteDance’s Douyin. The regulator has already frozen a raft of social media accounts, then stepped up on-line scrubbing to quiet a wave of confused outrage over the dying of the physician that first raised purple flags concerning the illness. On this setting, U.S.-based Twitter has emerged because the vacation spot for locals looking for details about the unfold of the virus. It’s formally banned within the nation, however many individuals hop the Nice Firewall and entry the platform through digital non-public networks. Wuhan locals have filmed a few of the most chilling movies in the course of the outbreak, together with photos of untreated corpses, discontent amongst quarantined sufferers in hospitals and police knocking on doorways to implement censorship. Our website did not independently verified the authenticity of these movies. (Source: Bloomberg)
7 February 2020 "In 'wartime condition". China orders Wuhan to round up all suspected coronavirus patients and put them in quarantine camps as Beijing warns officials who run away from the 'war' will be 'nailed to the pillar of historical shame'. China's Vice Premier has instructed Wuhan officials to send workers to every household to take the temperature of all family members in order to block the source of the outbreak. Wuhan officials are now carrying out door-to-door health checks to identify potential carriers who would need to be isolated. China has demanded four types of people in Wuhan to be put into mandatory isolation in quarantine stations: confirmed cases, suspected cases, people who have close contact with the former two, and those who have fever. Wuhan has built two dedicated coronavirus hospital - 1,000-bed Huoshenshan Hospital and 1,600-bed Leishenshan Hospital - from the ground up since late January, converted more than a dozen sports halls and exhibition centres into makeshift wards and set up 132 quarantine stations. These facilities, dubbed 'fang cang' or 'shelter' hospitals, would bring some 10,700 more beds to those in need. The emergency facilities, which have more than 25,870 beds in total, are not enough to keep confirmed and suspected patients of the disease which has killed 638 people. Local officials have ordered construction workers to set up many more makeshift wards 'as fast as possible'. 20 more fang cang hospitals were due to be built. The city's government today instructed four universities to be turned into isolation centres with a total of 5,400 beds. Leaders of Hubei Province, of which Wuhan is the capital, last week directed that all hotels, hostels and empty factories should be prepared to be transformed into quarantine stations. Temperature-taking drones were spotted. The difficulty of containing the coronavirus is that so many patients have mild, cold-like symptoms and don't realise they have the infection – but it can quickly turn deadly. China's National Health Commission reported 73 new deaths and 3,143 confirmed cases overnight. Experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be 100,000, or even as high as 350,000 in Wuhan alone. Once someone has caught the virus it may take between two and 14 days for them to show any symptoms – but they may still be contagious during this time. The director-general of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gao, yesterday said the virus was mutating and adapting as it spread through people. (Source: TheMail)
2/7/20 Chinese scientists believe pangolins could be an intermediate host for the coronavirus. Research was conducted by scientists at the South China Agricultural University, Lingnan Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory. The pangolin is a widely trafficked scaly mammal used in food and medicine in Asia. Coronavirus has killed 637 people in mainland China, according to the World Health Organization. The virus may have originated in bats and spread to humans via another animal. (Source: Politico)
February 7, 2020 A Chinese doctor who tried to warn the public about the Wuhan coronavirus has died of the disease. Li told colleagues about the presence of the virus all the way back in December but was accused of rumor-mongering by Wuhan police after his messages were posted on social media. Li is being hailed as a hero, and his death has sparked anger among Chinese citizens, who say they feel like they were lied to and Li was unfairly attacked for speaking out. Li's death comes as China prepares to ramp up its response to the virus, which has topped 30,000 cases. Officials said every household in Wuhan will be checked for people with symptoms, and anyone affected will be sent to one of more than 130 quarantine centers in the city. (Source: CNN)
6 Feb 2020 Wearing a protective mask might also damage his reputation as a strong leader. Chinese citizens are particularly concerned by the disappearance of their President, and are using social media to communicate their worries and speculate as to where he might be. These posts are being "swiftly deleted by censors. The state leader hasn't been seen in several days, missing his regularly scheduled media appearances. It's even stranger for the President to vanish during a public health crisis. He has now been absent from Chinese media, which he typically dominates, for several days. One theory is that he has retreated into the background to minimise his perceived involvement with the coronavirus crisis, allowing other officials to take the fall. This means lower-ranking Wuhan politicians will probably be blamed for the economic and societal devastation caused by the outbreak. Another theory is that Xi has effectively quarantined himself because he's wary of catching the coronavirus from an infected member of the public. (Source: DailyStar)
February 5, 2020 As deaths reacging 490, no sign of a slowdown in China; 3,887 more people had been infected. So far, it is known that 24,324 people have been infected. The coronavirus mortality rate is approximately 2 percent. (Source: TheNewYorkTimes)
2020/02/05 The "internal" data held by Beijing may not reflect the true extent of the epidemic. According to multiple sources in Wuhan, many coronavirus patients are unable to receive treatment and die outside of hospitals. A severe shortage of test kits also leads to a lower number of diagnosed cases of infection and death. In addition, there have been many reports of doctors being ordered to list other forms of death instead of coronavirus to keep the death toll artificially low. On late Saturday evening (Feb. 1), Tencent, on its webpage titled "Epidemic Situation Tracker" may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths. Over the weekend Tencent briefly listed 154,023 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus. It listed the number of suspected cases as 79,808, four times the official figure. The number of cured cases was only 269, well below the official number that day of 300. Most ominously, the death toll listed was 24,589, vastly higher than the 300 officially listed that day. (Source: TaiwanNews): https://tinyurl.com/twwpv9g
04 02 2020 Chinese health officials confirmed the number of fatalities has reached 425, with over 20,400 people infected nationwide. Hong Kong has also reported a coronavirus death, bringing the total outside mainland China to two. (Source: DW)
4 February 2020 A clear symptom of a drop in business activity. China's daily crude consumption has slumped by 20%, the equivalent of the UK and Italy's oil needs combined. In response Asia's largest oil refiner Sinopec, which is owned by the Chinese government, has cut the amount of crude it is processing by around 600,000 barrels per day, or 12%, its biggest cut in more than a decade. The scale of the fall has shocked the energy industry. (Source: BBC)
Feb 04, 2020 It took authorities about five days to contact Harmo, a college student studying in Wuhan, after he returned to his hometown, Linhai, in eastern Zhejiang province. He said he had already been under self-imposed isolation when local officials asked for his personal information, including name, address, phone number, identity card number and the date he returned from Wuhan. Within days, the information began to spread online, along with a list of others who returned to Linhai from Wuhan. Local officials offered no explanation but returned a few days later to fasten police tape to his door and hang a sign that warned neighbors that a Wuhan returnee lived there. The sign included an informant hotline to call if anyone saw him or his family leave the apartment. Tang said he received about four calls a day from different local government departments. “It’s not a caring tone they’re using. It’s a warning tone", he said. In the northern province of Hebei, one county offered bounties of 1,000 yuan, or about $140, for each Wuhan person reported by residents. Images online showed towns digging up roads or deputizing men to block outsiders. Some apartment-building residents barricaded the doors of their towers with China’s ubiquitous ride-share bikes. In the eastern province of Jiangsu, quarantine turned to imprisonment after authorities used metal poles to barricade shut the door of a family recently returned from Wuhan. To get food, the family relied on neighbors who lowered provisions with a rope down to their back balcony. Across the country, the response from local authorities often resembles the mass mobilizations of the Mao era rather than the technocratic, data-driven wizardry depicted in propaganda about China’s emerging surveillance state. Checkpoints to screen people for fevers have popped up at tollbooths, at the front gates of apartment complexes and in hotels, grocery stores and train stations. Often those wielding the thermometer guns don’t hold them close enough to a person’s forehead, generating unusually low temperature readings. Such checks were worthless, for instance, against one man in the western province of Qinghai, whom police are investigating on suspicion that he covered up his symptoms to travel. Authorities have used computerized systems that track ID cards - which must be used to take most long-distance transport and stay in hotels - to round up people from Wuhan. (Source: IndiaTimes)
3 February 2020 Hong Kong closes 10 out of 13 land and sea border crossings with mainland China in a bid to curb the coronavirus outbreak. Only two border checkpoints - at Shenzhen Bay and the bridge to Macau and Zhuhai - will remain open, as well as the airport in Hong Kong where medics feel especially vulnerable because of their cross-boundary links with mainland China and the refusal by the authorities to completely seal off the territory. Many of the territory's pharmacies and shopping outlets have run out of surgical face masks and hand sanitisers. Hong Kong's position as a major financial hub is likely to be doubly threatened: first, if the coronavirus takes a grip in the territory, and secondly, if the borders with the mainland are completely sealed off stifling a raft of international trade, movement and businesses. (Source: SkyNews)
February 3, 2020 How Wuhan lost the fight to contain the virus? According to research published Jan. 26 by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 33 among 585 environmental samples extracted from the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan tested positive for the virus. Of the positive samples, 93.9% came from the western part of the market. But an essay published by The Lancet medical journal said that while wild animals are the most likely source of the virus, there was more than one venue where the virus was passed to humans. The essay, penned by doctors at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, found that only 27 of the first 41 patients diagnosed with the coronavirus infection in Wuhan had contact with the South China Seafood Market. A research report jointly published by the CDC and the Hubei Disease Prevention and Control Center Jan. 29 said evidence showed that the new coronavirus started passing from patients to their close contacts in mid-December. (Source: TheStraitsTimes): https://tinyurl.com/vgc2w6b
February 2, 2020 China's National Health Commission (NHC) has banned yesterday funerals, burials and other related activities involving the corpses of deceased victims of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. Victims who succumb to the virus must be cremated at the nearest facility. No farewell ceremonies or other funeral activities involving the corpse shall be held. The medical staff at the medical facility where the person was being treated are required to disinfect and seal the remains. It is forbidden to open the remains once they have been sealed. The medical staff will issue a death certificate and notify the family. At this point, the local funeral services facility will be contacted. Funeral services personnel will then collect the body, deliver it to the relevant facility, and directly cremate the remains. A cremation certificate will then be issued. No one is permitted to visit the remains during this process. Relatives will be allowed to take the remains after cremation has been completed and documented. (Source: BusinessInsider)
February 02 2020 10 days after locking down Wuhan, authorities imposed similar draconian measures on Wenzhou, a coastal city of nine million people in Zhejiang province, part of the eastern industrial heartland that has powered China's economic rise over recent decades. Only one resident per household is allowed to go out every two days to buy necessities. 46 highway toll stations have been closed. Wenzhou is at a distance of some 800 kilometres from Wuhan. With the Chinese economy suffering, the central bank announced it would release 1.2 trillion yuan ($173 billion) tomorrow to maintain liquidity in the banking system - the day markets re-open after the long holiday break. (Source: NDTV)
February 02 2020 Hong Kong is dealing with hundreds of suspected cases which lead nurses to threaten strike. Nurses say they’ll walk out tomorrow if the city doesn’t seal its border with China. (Source: npr)
2 February 2020 'we don't trust the 'mainlanders'. The coronavirus outbreak is inside the city already, having spilled over from the many boundary crossings and transport links Hong Kong has with mainland China. The high-speed rail link with the mainland was shut down as was the ferry crossing - but only about a week after the entire city of Wuhan was quarantined by the Beijing government. By that time, doctors in Hong Kong estimate about five million people had left the epicentre of the outbreak. One in four cases are severe - Prof Hui, one of the foremost virus experts in the world, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong said. There're also early suggestions that the virus can be passed from human to human and possibly linger active on hard surfaces such as door handles, escalators, desks and toilets. The city has lived through SARS in 2002-2003 (and saw the highest number of deaths outside of mainland China) and is on red alert - this explains the panic buying of facemasks and hand sanitisers. Any outlet which has the masks opens up huge long queues. Some people said they had lined up for six hours to buy a box. Hong Kong is particularly vulnerable to the virus because of the proximity and links to mainland China. Mix this with its recent political history; its experience of SARS and its global reach as a major financial hub... and it becomes dangerously toxic. (Source: SkyNews)
February 1, 2020 A large number of patients can only survive on their own in addition to the diagnosis process and statistics. There are currently only two ways to be admitted to hospital. Patients first go to the community to submit lung CT and blood routine reports, the community reports the street, and then according to the priority of the new bed in the hospital, the patient needs to be admitted to the hospital with a hospitalization ticket; The hospital waited in line for 48 hours to get the results. After the diagnosis was made, they could not be rejected by the hospital. Second, go to the designated hospital with nucleic acid test strips, get the results 48 hours, after the diagnosis can not be rejected by the hospital. It is not easy to follow these two paths, and each one may be endless waiting. But for the severely ill, every minute can be a torment of life and death. The criteria for fever personnel are: 1. Fever above 37.5 degrees; Cough 3. Weakness. The suspect's criteria are: 1. CT examination showed ground-glass changes in both lungs; 2. Blood tests for abnormal white blood cells; 3. Contains fever personnel standards. Criteria for critically ill persons are: 1. decreased blood oxygen saturation; Dyspnea 3. Have basic diseases; 4. Those who are older and weaker; 5. Contains fever and suspected personnel standards. Even if the community and hospitals advise patients to be hospitalized immediately, there is no guarantee that there will be beds available. The requirements of infectious diseases for isolation have made medical resources unprecedentedly tight. The other path to hospitalization for patients is to go to designated hospitals to line up for a diagnosis is also quite long. After the hospital's inspection, if the doctor thinks that hospitalization is needed, the patient can be hospitalized and tested for nucleic acid. Applying for a nucleic acid test can only allow doctors to open a suspected case report card, but only in urgent cases will this form be filled out. The test strips are lacking, the doctors don't understand why they are lacking. The test takes one day. The designated hospital can only receive patients based on the report. No bed without confirmed report. Then hospitals admit critically ill patients, but none were diagnosed ilI. Somebody died without a confirmed diagnosis, it would not be counted as the number of confirmed deaths. The mortality rate is much higher than the discharge rate. Because there is no specific medicine to treat this disease, you cannot follow the trend online. Patients at home take two medicines, antiviral and anti-infective, with fever exceeding 38.5 ° C to reduce fever. Inpatient treatment is also a supportive treatment for critically ill patients. (Source: CaijingMagazine): https://tinyurl.com/reuyvg7
1 February 2020 China's National Health Commission said there were 2,102 new confirmed infections in China yesterday, bringing the total to 11,791. Around two dozen other countries have reported another 137 cases. The death toll rose by 46 to 259. In Beijing, counters were set up at the entrances of housing estates, where volunteers wearing red arm bands and masks noted down details of residents coming back from their hometowns after the Lunar New Year holiday. Infections have jumped in two cities flanking Wuhan, raising concerns that new hot spots are emerging despite strict travel restrictions. In one of them, Huanggang, authorities asked households to designate one individual who can leave the home. The city has a population of about 7.5 million. The northern city of Tianjin, home to some 15 million, suspended all schools and businesses until further notice. (Source: Reuters)
Israel
February 9, 2020 Arab media accuse US, Israel of coronavirus conspiracy, being behind the creation and spread of the deadly coronavirus as part of an economic and psychological war against China. They also went on to accuse the US and Israel of being behind other outbreaks over the past several years in China and in the Arab world. "As soon as Egypt announced, a few years ago, that it would rely on poultry [raised in the country], and that it would even export [poultry] abroad – that is, that it no longer needed poultry from the US, France, and so on – [suddenly] there appeared, from underneath the ground, the avian flu virus… with the aim of nipping [Egypt's economic] awakening in the bud," Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan' report said. "Even before this, the same thing was done in China… when in 2003 [the country] announced that it had the [world's] largest dollar reserves [and] they [the Americans] introduced coronavirus' cousin, SARS, into [the country]." At the beginning of February, Syrian daily newspaper Al-Thawra also claimed the coronavirus and other outbreaks were part of a US-China war. "From Ebola, Zika, SARS, avian flu and swine flu, through anthrax and mad cow disease to the corona[virus] – [all these] deadly viruses were manufactured by the US and threaten to annihilate the peoples of the world," the report alleged. "[The US] has turned biological warfare into a new type of war, by means of which it intends to change the rules of play and shift the conflict with the peoples [of the world] away from the conventional path." A report on the Egyptian news site Vetogate.com adds that there is a theorized economic motivation for the outbreak, as the supposed masterminds behind it will reap the billions of dollars spent by China on emergency treatments and medicines, "which, by the way, will be manufactured by an Israeli company." (Source: TheJerusalemPost)
Japan
February 8, 2020 Prime Minister Abe said foreign passengers on Holland America’s Westerdam ship, won’t be allowed into Japan. He said suspected virus patients were on board. The ship, with more than 2,000 people, was near Okinawa and was seeking another port. (Source: AP)
Feb 8th 2020 Yesterday in Yokohama the tally of coronavirus patients on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship had risen to 61. The newly diagnosed also include 21 Japanese nationals, as well as eight Americans, five Canadians, five Australians and an Argentine. The vessel's quarantine was due to end on February 19. All affected guests were being taken to hospitals. (Source: TheMail)
Philippines
2 February 2020 In the Philippines a 44-year-old man from Wuhan has become the first person outside China to die from the outbreak, while the overall death toll has risen above 300 and the number of confirmed cases of infection increased to more than 14,000. President Duterte approved a temporary ban on all travellers, except Filipinos, from China and its autonomous regions. Among a growing number of airlines suspending flights to mainland China was Qatar Airways. Its flights would stop tomorrow..(Source: LBCNews)
Eurázsia
(2019) A történelem újragondolása? Finnugor és szkíta eredet -egy és ugyanaz? A Duna és a Volga közti sztyeppe lakossága körében a keleti betelepülők által a hun hódítástól kezdve behozott török nyelvek csak évszázadok elteltével váltották fel teljesen a számszerű többségét mindvégig megőrző szkíta őslakosság ugor nyelvét vagy nyelveit. Így vonható le az a következtetés, hogy a Hun Birodalom társadalma egy olyan sajátos vegyesvállalkozás lehetett, ahol a harcos arisztokrata réteget nagyobbrészt a keletről érkezett, mongolid megjelenésű, török nyelvű ázsiai hun népcsoport adta, míg a népesség többségét továbbra is az europid megjelenésű, ugor nyelvű szkíta őslakosság tette ki. A valószínűleg még kizárólag a régi, ugor nyelvet beszélő jazigok betelepülését követően vélhetően több hullámban is ennek a kétnyelvű sztyeppi népességnek érkeztek különböző hullámai a Kárpát-medencébe, a hunokkal érkező hullámtól kezdve a László által kutatott griffes-indásokon keresztül az 896-os honfoglalás népéig. Végeredményben pedig a Kárpát-medence jelentheti a sztyeppének azt az eldugott szegletét, ahol végül a szkíták régi ugor nyelve kerekedett felül és maradt fenn, míg a Kárpátoktól keletre végbement a teljes nyelvcsere és a török jutott egyeduralkodó helyzetbe. Értelemszerű okok között említhetjük a Kárpát-medence viszonylagos elszigeteltségét a sztyepp-övezeten belül, és azt is, hogy elhelyezkedése a sztyeppi folyosó nyugati végpontjában a keletről érkező eltörökösödés epicentrumától a lehető legmesszebb fekvő sarkát képezi ennek a zónának. Hozzájárulhatott még a régi nyelv fennmaradásához, hogy ide már nem terjedt ki az ogur-török nyelvű népeket a besenyőktől kezdve az európai sztyeppén felváltó köztörök nyelvű népek hódítása, akik keletebbről érkezve minden bizonnyal az eltörökösödésnek már egy előrehaladottabb fázisát képviselték, noha korabeli források szerint megjelenésre még mindig alapvetően europidok voltak. Itt kiemelhető, hogy a köztörök nyelvek elterjedésével egyidőben tűnnek el a forrásokból a kétnyelvűségre utaló megjegyzések, és hogy Julianus barát is az utolsó megmaradt ogur-török nyelvű nép, a volgai bolgárok földjén találta meg a magyar nyelv utolsó, keleten maradt beszélőit. Paradox módon a régi nyelv felülkerekedéséhez hozzájárulhatott még a Szent István-i fordulat is, hiszen az addig az eltörökösödés útján járó elitet letérítette erről az irányról, elvágta az eltörökösödés előrehaladottabb fokán álló sztyeppékhez kötődő kulturális szálakat, a török helyett a latint téve az érdeklődés középpontjába, ezáltal megszüntetve a nyelvcserére irányuló nyomást. (Forrás: SoutheastEurope): https://tinyurl.com/wcq7uy2
Australia
February 7, 2020 Tensions between the UK and its allies over Huawei. Byrne, the key member of Australia's Parliamentary intelligence committee who has served on the intelligence committee for 13 years. has strongly criticised British Foreign Secretary Raab in a private meeting over British intelligence claims they can safely allow Chinese telco Huawei to build the country's 5G mobile network. Australian and US officials are frustrated Britain said in late January that it would not ban equipment made by Huawei from being used in its new high-speed 5G network. The Australians were very disappointed by the decision. Mr. Byrne was telling Mr Raab that British spies were "flat-out wrong" to say Huawei can supply 5G equipment and not pose a threat to national security. He argued Australia had never before been in the position where its largest trading partner was also its biggest "security threat". The Trump administration has lobbied to rebuff Huawei, arguing the telco works closely with Beijing. President Trump was "apoplectic" with "fury" over the decision during a phone call with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson granted China's Huawei a limited role in Britain's 5G mobile network, resisting US pressure to exclude the company from next-generation communications on fears China could use it to steal secrets. The US has not ruled out cutting Britain off from intelligence gathered and shared among the Fives Eyes group. (Source: WAtoday)
1 February 2020 Australia said it would forbid non-residents who came to the country from China. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said only "Australian citizens, Australian residents, dependents, legal guardians or spouses" would be permitted into the country from China from today. (Source: TimesMalta)
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