Vic Liu

I think the only hope to end this pandemic is vaccine. The situation in East Asia seems under control now but only if strict measure continuously maintained, otherwise the second wave will be back if border control lifted. The new normal is not actual normal. The society functions much less active than before though government claims we are back. Obviously the confidence is not back and the fear is still there, the market is not active at all. So unless the vaccine developed, the global market won't be normal as before. news reported several vaccine developed into 2nd phase trial, hopefully at least one will be successfully developed in 2020. Chinese media is optimistic that the first vaccine would be ready in September if every procedure goes well. Hope it true and not be a political weapon whoever develop it first .

It's true. I just combine them based on their views. I have to say NY times reporting fact despite the views and comments.

I will daily get news from the most pro-Chinese government media to the most anti-Chinese government media, so I can get totally different news and views everyday. Here is the pro-Chinese government index of my daily accessing media 10- Chinese state-owned media ( mostly positive news only and lots of criticism on USA ) 7 - Caixin ( private Chinese media with some mild criticism on government and focusing on minority victims ) 5 - BBC/BBC Chinese ( generally negative news based on fact with some reasonable criticism ) 4 - CNN/NY Times ( negative news only with several fake news, the criticism is systematically and ideologically biased ) 3 - Yahoo Taiwan ( fake news family, just like reading jokes and having fun ) 0 - Voice of America Chinese ( full of ideological bias and making me feel I am living in the hell awaiting the rescue of USA )

Nowadays basically no media are 100% objective and your favored media could precisely feed what you want based on your taste. Accessing different major media in different countries is what I can do to try to balance different views. CNN is fake news media is more like a joke to imitate Trump but CNN is truly the first mainstream media to report the rumor and tigger lots of small media to make up stories for clicks. I don't like this "according to our reliable source" reporting style and I feel like jeering it because of this misinformation. But I would not say everything it report is fake and worthless reading, on the contrary, it's a major tool to know and understand American liberals views.

Kim Jong Un show up in both video and photos. So major South Korean and Chinese media and officials are right about this. And CNN is a real major fake news media and many other small ones.

Russian /ex-Korean short track speed skating legend Viktor Ahn retires second time due to long-term knee injury. He retired in 2018 and return in 2019 attempting to persist until 2022 Olympics. Sadly he chose to retire again due to the injury and age.

I heard one saying in South Korea, every Korean wants unification, just not in my generation.

China definitely go through this scenario many times so China will not just let it happen. The best scenario is as you said, his sister take over, everything is still peace and stable. The second best is China and South Korea (maybe USA and Russia together) involved into NK internal political battle without blood, finally a new government recognized by all parties founded with one more step to democracy and unification. The worst scenario is the proxy war happen. China will not allow US army near its border, NK is a perfect buffer zone right now, once this balance break the war will begin. China and South Korea are pretty calm right now so I think Kim's probably still recoverable or prepared for peaceful power take-over. Neither USA or China would rather see a unified Korea ( cruel but true), Neither one will play fool to start a proxy war I guess/hope.

Major Chinese and South Korean media are keep saying or implying Kim's fine these days. It may be true or it means South Korea and China are busy handling this unexpected issue. This is not the first time rumor about Kim's death, according to previous experience, he will show up to end this within 2 weeks. If Kim is really dead, WOW, huge battle between North and South Korea, and China VS USA. Can't predict how it will develop.

Any story about his sister? I didn't read any before except those very formal ones without emotion.

Japanese media said he became vegetative state due to heart surgery failure. And after the surgery NK asked help for China and China sent experts team but still unsuccessful. The whole story written is very detailed and vivid but no one can verify. NK state-owned media continuously publish some text news related to Kim to show he is working normally but with no video or image. To conclude, nobody really knows. Usually the misery will be uncovered within 2 weeks.

Hope we will not see any news someone died of drinking or injecting disinfectant in coming days.

Even a national games have so many dramas? It sounds like Olympics or FIFA World Cup process.

I hope it will be held in West or Central Asia and looking forward to Saudi's response to women's sports as it can't be a men's game only.

I think the village size won't be a big problem again and I'm OK with the naturalization as it will trigger tenser competition and Qatar and Bahrain will do it anyway. If the AG will make Saudi Arabia accept the women's sports and women spectators, it would be a huge progress and I will definitely vote for them.

Why Doha still have motivation to hold another Asian Games given it held once and going to hold the FIFA World Cup. Why not Doha fight for the Summer Olympics? And for Riyadh, I even doubt that if female beach volleyball, diving and gymnastics could be held as usual, spectators and live streaming are also problems.

I saw a lot of fun clips on TikTok about this coffin thing. It's a pity that it can'e be shared here.

Only if you are from Taiwan

Kim can't be happy more if he knows Hyun Bin play as him. I'm sure all Koreans like him. He should send money not missile.

Usually I support the strict measures to contain the spread the virus, but I still think my local government Chayang, Beijing is over-reacted. The thing is that one oversea student back to Beijing found positive at home after 14-day mandatory quarantine who tested negative twice during that. So sadly his 3 family members are also infected. No others infected yet because he found positive just after 2 days coming back home, not too much time and space to infect others. These occasional cases in my opinion is quite normal, it will happen every now and then unless this pandemic is fully over. But the Beijing government is going crazy and list Chaoyang district as the ONLY high risk district in China, apparently many other more dangerous districts still with local transmission are listed moderate. The consequence for me is that I can not leave Beijing, otherwise I may be rejected live in hotel or facing a mandatory quarantine as I am from high risk district. I think the main reason for over-reaction is that some important political conference will be held next week in Beijing. As the capital security and stability are prioritized than economic activities and convenience. It's troublesome for me and really hate it.

Yes. I would rather believe the news from South Korea and I think they must have some kinda secret connection and information sharing system.

I don't really buy it. I just read the full CNN article, no substantial source at all, mostly by imagination and typical fake news. The only seemingly reliable source in it is from South Korean media Daily NK, he conducted surgery in 12th April and back to Pyongyang in 19th April, but not mentioning grave danger.

Rhino horn is illegal for a long time so it won't be prompted to be a medicine. Rhino is precious wild animals need protection but bear is some animal could be raised and feed. That's the rationale to define animal production legal or not. Though Rhino horn is illegal but definitely considered as one of most precious traditional medicine and it's not for strengthening sexual ability, it's for saving life to be short. Since it's banned so it can only be a misery for me.

China doesn't recognize dual citizenship. Once you obtain another citizenship, you will lose Chinese citizenship automatically. But if you don't tell it to Chinese police and use Chinese passports to enter and leave the country, you can temporarily keep the dual citizenship until government knows it. Secretly keeping two passports will make you back to and live in China much more convenient as local. So some overseas Chinese do it including my relatives.

So it means once you are Iranian, you are Iranian forever? Is it also the reason the messy calculation of nationality of the death of the latest air-crush？Canada said they are Canadian while Iran said they are Iranian?