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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Did the WHO mishandle the global coronavirus pandemic? Lynette Ong comments on WHO’s deferential relationship with China

May 5, 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-who-china-canada-pandemic-1.5549836

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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, centre, who founded local newspaper Apple Daily, is arrested by police officers at his home in Hong Kong on April 18, 2020.

Lynette Ong Weighs in on how the pandemic is giving Beijing political cover for controversial acts

April 28, 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pandemic-covid-coronavirus-china-hungary-bolivia-texas-israel-turkmenistan-1.5541548

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man rides bicycle by lake with mask on

My family in China grappled with coronavirus — now they’re worried for me in Canada: Op-ed by Taiwan Gazette Co-Editor Owen Guo

April 16, 2020

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/04/10/my-family-in-china-grappled-with-coronavirus-now-theyre-worried-for-me-in-canada

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COVID-19 and the New Normal: An Essay by former Asian Institute Director Joseph Wong

April 7, 2020

https://munkschool.exposure.co/covid19-and-the-new-normal

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Lynette Ong

Lynette Ong among U of T researchers profiled for COVID-19 contributions

March 12, 2020

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/we-re-learning-more-every-day-how-u-t-leading-efforts-understand-and-respond-covid-19

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Diana Fu

Diana Fu weighs in on the Coronavirus and democracy

March 11, 2020

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2020/0302/Containing-coronavirus-Where-democracy-struggles-and-thrives

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Lynette Ong offers perspective on Chinese response to coronavirus

February 14, 2020

(CBC Radio: The Current) (CBC Radio: Here & Now) (CBC Online) (CBC News Network) (The Globe and Mail — paywall) (Yahoo! News Canada) (MSN Canada) (The Straits Times)

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Professor Lynette Ong

Lynette Ong explores the impact of criticism of China’s response to novel coronavirus.

February 7, 2020

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-death-of-wuhan-doctor-sparks-rare-condemnations-of-chinese-virus/

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Nhung Tran

Nhung Tran discusses the lives of Vietnamese Catholics in the 17th century for Between, Across, and Through Podcast

January 17, 2020

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University students protest India's new citizenship law, in Kolkata, India

Shivaji Mukherjee on Protests to India’s New Citizenship Law

January 7, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/31/india-thousands-are-protesting-new-citizenship-law-here-are-things-know/

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