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1. Direct progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 pinpointed as originating from Mojiang, China ...: (2021); ... as originating from Mojiang, China by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Independent Science News, 2 Aug 2021 https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/phylogeographic-mapping-of-newly-discovered-coronaviruses-pinpoints-direct-progenitor-of-sars-cov-2-as-originating-from-mojiang/ ...; Created on 03 August 2021
2. What the global battle against the fall armyworm reveals about how the US and China see the future of global food production ...: (2021); China and the United States have found common cause in exerting influence at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Global food production could be permanently changed. By Allan Hruska [EXCERPT ...; Created on 10 May 2021
3. Why China and the WHO will never find a zoonotic origin for the COVID-19 pandemic virus ...: (2021); "No convincing natural zoonotic origin for the pandemic will ever be found by China or the WHO or anyone else – for the simple reason that one does not exist" – scientists Here's an excerpt from an excelle ...; Created on 17 February 2021
4. BBC blocked from investigating SARS-CoV-2 lab leak theory in China ...: (2020); ... sampling of wild viruses is based? --- Covid: Wuhan scientist would "welcome" visit probing lab leak theory By John Sudworth BBC News, 22 Dec 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-553644 ...; Created on 22 December 2020
5. Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic? ...: (2020); ... Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic? Two inquiries are "cloaked in secrecy", WHO lets Beijing vet investigators and it appoints British scientist with links to Wuhan By IAN BIRRE ...; Created on 22 December 2020
6. Summary of evidence that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China ...: (2020); ... originated in laboratory in Wuhan, China, has been published by “an anonymous group of researchers” who claim not to be “affiliated with any company, nation state, or organization”. The document focuse ...; Created on 03 May 2020
7. China jails "gene-edited babies" scientist for three years ...: (2019); "A criminal enterprise" – Center for Genetics and Society comments 1. China jails "gene-edited babies" scientist for three years 2. Heritable genome modification: A criminal enterprise: Center for Geneti ...; Created on 31 December 2019
8. Gene-edited foods are GMOs, says China ...: (2019); New "simplified" (weakened) regulations may apply China's GMO regulator MARA (the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs) has said that "gene edited products fall in the scope of the country's GMO regulati ...; Created on 20 March 2019
9. China confirms birth of gene-edited babies, blames scientist He Jiankui for breaking rules ...: (2019); ... must be established around all forms of gene editing: without regulation, the situation will be a "Wild West" ruled by rogue scientists. --- China confirms birth of gene-edited babies, blames scientis ...; Created on 21 January 2019
10. China set to shock markets with low glyphosate residue limits in food imports ...: (2018); Move follows classification of glyphosate as probable human carcinogen by IARC EXCERPT: China’s action would likely decrease the global use of glyphosate as a desiccant. --- China set to shock markets ...; Created on 11 December 2018
11. Gene-edited babies: China halts work of He Jiankui ...: (2018); He Jiankui caused outrage when he told a genome summit he had altered the genes of twin baby girls EXCERPT: Hundreds of scientists, both in China and around the world, swiftly condemned his claims. ...; Created on 30 November 2018
12. China baby gene editing claim "dubious" ...: (2018); ... said, "If true, this experiment is monstrous. The embryos were healthy - no known diseases." --- China baby gene editing claim "dubious" By Michelle Roberts BBC News online, 26 Nov 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46342 ...; Created on 26 November 2018
13. China: Producer admits illicit sale of GM corn seeds ...: (2018); GM corn seeds were planted on hundreds of acres of land in northwest China Commercial planting of GM crops in China, other than cotton and papaya, is banned. --- Producer admits illicit sale of ...; Created on 12 July 2018
14. GMO seed crackdown in China ...: (2018); ... in China Dimsums Blogspot, 11 Apr 2018 http://dimsums.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/spring-gmo-seed-crackdown-in-china.html [links to sources at the URL above] With spring planting approaching, Chinese provinces ...; Created on 13 April 2018
15. China’s first GM rice gets US FDA approval ...: (2018); Neither China nor the US has approved mass cultivation of the rice amid low acceptance from the Chinese public for GM food As is confirmed by the wording of the letter from the US FDA to the university ...; Created on 23 January 2018
16. ChemChina completes Syngenta takeover, targets emerging markets ...: (2017); Chinese state player wants to double the size of the Swiss agrochemical giant EXCERPT: "Developing countries around the world, including China, need Syngenta for its technology, for its products an ...; Created on 28 June 2017
17. China approves two new GMO crop varieties for import, renews 14 ...: (2017); ... with the United States. — CORRECTED-UPDATE 2 - China approves two new GMO crop varieties for import, renews 14 - ag ministry By Dominique Patton and Hallie Gu Reuters, 14 June 2017 https://www.reuters.com/article/china-gmo-imports-idUSL3N1JB25Z ...; Created on 16 June 2017
18. Syngenta faces 7,000 Kansas farmers in GMO China corn fight ...: (2017); ... faces 7,000 Kansas farmers in GMO China corn fight by Margaret Cronin Fisk and Jef Feeley Bloomberg, 5 June 2017 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/syngenta-faces-7-000-kansas-farmers-in-gmo-corn-dispute ...; Created on 06 June 2017
19. Syngenta defends GMO corn as merger shifts blame to China's door ...: (2017); “The market really never came back” says farmer about China’s rejection of Syngenta’s GMO corn EXCERPT: Stamp and thousands of other American farmers say they have identified a villain for precipitous ...; Created on 24 April 2017
20. ChemChina wins US approval for $43 billion Syngenta deal ...: (2017); ... big agrochemical merger/takeovers, is bad news for farmers and consumers, who will face less choice of seeds and a bigger push towards GMOs and their associated pesticides. — ChemChina wins US approval ...; Created on 05 April 2017

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