Images and videos of the lockdown of Shanghai have proved shocking in Taiwan. While less widely reported on in pan-Blue media, stories about new incidents of brutality in the course of the lockdown circulate widely in the Taiwanese media and among the general public...
Lab leak theorists seized upon a suspected case of contamination at Academia Sinica in Taiwan earlier this month in order to bolster claims that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan and was of manmade origin. Nevertheless, such claims are spurious and disregard many details of what took place in Taiwan...