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China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns.

Discussion in 'News from the UK, Europe and the rest of the World' started by aposhark, Jan 25, 2020.

  1. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

  2. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Seems a fairly balanced viewpoint of China:

  3. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Yes he seems very credible.

    As I've said before my niece lives and works in mainland China and she really likes it as well.
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  4. aposhark
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    I was fascinated by China when I was there back in 1984 but it seemed quite backward on the island of Hainan. Sanya in Hainan became a tourist area in more recent years because the weather is nice down in the south.
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    Hainan in the 90's was just being touted as a holiday spot for Hong kongers.
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  6. aposhark
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    From what I can remember, we stayed in a very old fashioned hotel with rooms all on the ground floor back then.
    I do remember one oil company being completely expelled from China around the same time because one local maid was seen chatting with a "gweilo" (common Cantonese slang term and ethnic slur for Westerners) in his Sanya room.
    How things changed. I met a man in the Congo about five years later who had just come from Sanya and who told me he couldn't get to sleep in his nice Sanya hotel as there were frequent knocks on his door from ladies of the night trying to ply their trade.

    There is some background to the developments of the tourist industry / infrastructure in the epilogue of the following book:
    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kNuEDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=sanya+hotels+1984&source=bl&ots=iIwxSvJUc2&sig=ACfU3U0OWwklqE534_mVZikJdGmkeNB8rQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7h-7Mm7vpAhWZUhUIHbaZA0sQ6AEwEXoECDUQAQ#v=onepage&q=sanya hotels 1984&f=false
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    I notice that all the hotels are closed in Sanya now because of the Covid-19 outbreak.
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    I am glad I got to see certain parts of China before they became too touristy,Kashgar now looks nothing like it did 30 years ago,the market has been sanitised and Xinjiang now has Uighur re-education camps,the KKH is now open 12 months of the year etc.
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    We maybe followed each other for a while. I spent a year working out of the mouth of the Congo river. Used to catch a boat to the rig offshore from a port at the mouth.
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    We must have, John. ;)

    There are two oilfield bases at the mouth of the River Congo - "Banana Base" (Democratic Republic of Congo) on the north side and "Soyo" (Angola) on the south.

    Unless you came out of the Angolan exclave of Cabinda a little further north which is wedged between "Republic of Congo" and "Democratic Republic of Congo".

    I do miss African countries, although you will know that they are notorious for the difficulties in trying to get things done.
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    It was Soyo. We flew in from Luanda. Then either caught the boat out or a helicopter.
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    Fauci warns of 'disturbing' new US surge:

    Link will not post correctly.

    Can be seen at BBCnews.....World
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    When I posted the same link, this happened Jim?

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    Daily new US cases have been growing for over a week, deaths follow about 2 to 4 weeks later or a little more, deaths have been holding steady most weekdays at just over a 1000 weekends are low, so I would expect to see a surge in deaths in the next 2 weeks.

    With luck they will have started using the steroid that the Oxford trial discovered is effective in late stage cases which should mitigate the death rate a bit.
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    It's not a valid link the BBC have done something with that, if I had the time I could set up a special BB Code to translate to an iframe but iframes can be dangerous too.

    the raw link is best without trying to embed it.
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