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James Morrow is the Daily Telegraph’s National Affairs Editor. James also hosts The US Report, Fridays at 8.00pm and co-anchor of top-rating Sunday morning discussion program Outsiders with Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean on Sundays at 9.00am on Sky News Australia.

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FILE - In this March 10, 2020 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Americans are increasingly hostile to China as the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on the U.S. and global economies and after three years of Trump administration antagonism toward the country, according to a nationwide poll released on Tuesday. The poll conducted last month by the non-partisan Pew Research Center found that two-thirds of those surveyed, or 66%, had an unfavorable view of China. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)

China’s information warfare extends far beyond coronavirus

The Chinese Communist Party remains adamant its handling of COVID-19 was exemplary. So why are they stifling criticism and enlisting trolls to spread confusion and lies, asks James Morrow.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 13, 2019, former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani speaks during a conference in Manza, Albania. - President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani returned to Ukraine on December 4, 2019, shrugging off the scandal over seeking dirt from Kiev on rival Democrats. The New York Times said Giuliani had traveled to Budapest on Tuesday and Kiev Wednesday to speak with former Ukrainian prosecutors who could have information that would support Trump's battle against impeachment. (Photo by Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP)

China sent ‘Death Ambassadors’ around world

Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani has lashed China for allowing Wuhan residents to travel overseas as the virus took hold saying more than a million Chinese went into the world “almost like ambassadors carrying the disease”, writes James Morrow.

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Celebrity chefs inspire mealtime

Top chefs like Dan Hong, stuck at home just like us, have taken to social media to share tips and tricks even the humble home cook can apply to dinnertime.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 11, 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO heardquaters in Geneva. - Congressional Republicans on April 16, 2020 urged President Donald Trump to condition US funding for the World Health Organization on the resignation of its chief over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Seventeen Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said they had "lost faith" in Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's WHO leadership, even as they stressed the organization is vital to tackling the world's health problems. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

The secret history of the WHO

If you think the World Health Organisation’s coronavirus failings are anything new, think again. The global bureaucracy has been dropping the ball for decades thanks to politics and incompetence, writes James Morrow.

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BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 22: Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with delegates from the 2019 New Economy Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China November 22, 2019. (Photo by Jason Lee-Pool/Getty Images)

Is China secretly conducting nuclear tests?

First it was lying and attempting to silence doctors who tried to warn the world about coronavirus and now some intelligence figures are concerned Beijing may be conducting nuclear tests.

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In this Tuesday, March 10, 2020, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a novel coronavirus in mid-January, ordering preparations even as they downplayed it in public. Internal documents obtained by the AP show that because warnings were muffled inside China, it took a confirmed case in Thailand to jolt Beijing into recognizing the possible pandemic before them. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)

Damning new evidence in China COVID cover-up

New evidence of China’s coronavirus cover-up has shown officials may have known about the virus for six days before warning citizens of the outbreak.

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This photo taken on February 6, 2020 shows a laboratory technician working on samples from people to be tested for the new coronavirus at "Fire Eye" laboratory in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. - BGI Group, a genome sequencing company based in southern China, said it opened on February 5 a lab in Wuhan able to test up to 10,000 people per day for the virus. The official Chinese death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose on February 7 to 636, with the government saying total infections had climbed past 30,000. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

Did coronavirus escape from a lab during ‘risky’ research?

While many experts believe the coronavirus came from one of Wuhan’s infamous wet markets, a more sinister theory is gaining credence, writes James Morrow

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(FILES) In this file photograph taken on January 11, 2020, members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drive their vehicle as they leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei, Province, where the Wuhan health commission said that the man who died from a respiratory illness had purchased goods. - A second person has died in China from a mystery virus that has stricken dozens and appeared in two other Asian countries, officials said. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

Wuhan wet markets add insult to injury

Australians may be locked up at home but in Wuhan, China, ground zero of the coronavirus crisis, people are once again allowed to go back to the wet markets with the blessing of World Health Organisation.

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Christians, Jews come together online amid COVID-19 outbreak

Church services are shifting online and jews are hosting ‘virtual seders’ as worshippers prepare to commemorate Easter very differently this year amid the coronavirus outbreak.

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Is suburban sprawl the secret weapon against coronavirus?

While inner-city elites sneer at the suburbs and long for a high-density, high-rise Australia, it turns out our urban sprawl may be the key to beating COVID-19, writes James Morrow.

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