The Crushing of Light

February 24, 1990 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The Baltimore Sun" (Baltimore, Maryland) February 24, 2020 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=601ffd06-978b-4221-8c10-8d612f3d22c4 Taiwanese antsy amid China’s lockdown Efforts to contain virus confine visitors for nearly a month. NURSES in protective suits look at a smartphone at a temporary hospital at Ta- zihu Gymnasium in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Friday. ( Chinatopix) By Ralph Jennings TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chen Chi-chuan was grateful when his hotel near the epicenter of the China coronavirus outbreak offered him three free meals a day, from rice porridge breakfasts to specially prepared vegetarian dinners, while he remains barred from leaving China to return to Taiwan. But after nearly a month in the same room at the state-owned Vienna Internati...

February 23, 1990 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "Portage Daily Register" (Portage, Wisconsin) February 23, 2020 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com) Coronavirus did not originate in Wuhan seafood market, Chinese scientists say Analysis of genomic data from 93 samples of the novel coronavirus suggests it was imported from elsewhere The busy market then boosted its circulation and spread it to the whole city, research shows He Huifeng Published: 7:38pm, 23 Feb, 2020

February 22, 1990 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The Charlotte Observer" (Charlotte, North Carolina) February 22, 2020 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=ee96ac0f-a922-4f8f-83ae-c88319625d34 Virus dilemma: Health or work? As businesses wobble along, China risks new infections by urging people to return to their jobs. By Alice Su BEIJING — It wasn’t that Cai didn’t want to go back to work. The small factory owner had been anxious to get his 40 or so employees back to business, making electronic wires for sound systems, phone chargers and earphones. But the list of required documents to reopen his factory in Shenzhen in southeastern China was staggering: application for return to work, temperature records for every employee, protective equipment supply and distribution charts, records of workers’ travel, factory d...

February 21, 1990 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "Southern Ilinoisan" (Carbondale, Illinois) February 21, 2020 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=b36b903d-4720-43d0-bf7d-c60036ec1932 1,000 WORDS: NOVI SANZHARY, Ukraine Tensions rise over virus fears Efrem Lukatsky Associated Press Protesters speak to riot police blocking the road on Thursday outside Novi Sanzhary, Ukraine, as the demonstrators tried to stop buses carrying people from an aircraft chartered by the government for evacuation from Wuhan, China. The effort to quarantine more than 70 people evacuated from China over the coronavirus outbreak plunged into chaos as local residents hurled stones at the evacuees and clashed with police. Officials deplored the violence, and the country’s health minister pledged to share evacuees’ quarantine for two weeks i...

February 20, 1990 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "Albany Democrat-Herald" (Albany, Oregon) February 20, 2020 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=c95d7d9a-4578-4173-a27e-98da5a1423ed China expels 3 journalists Nation takes offense at being called ‘sick man of Asia’ in Wall Street Journal op-ed. By Alice Su BEIJING — Chinese authorities abruptly revoked three Wall Street Journal reporters’ press credentials Wednesday as punishment for an opinion column published in the Journal two weeks ago headlined: “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia.” The three foreign correspondents were told they would have five days to leave China. It was the first time since 1998 that Chinese authorities had expelled foreign journalists — others have been in effect expelled by having their visa renewals denied — and the largest group ex...

February 19, 1990 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The Index-Journal" (Greenwood, South Carolina) "Eastern Europe has shown the only way to reform communism is to end it." February 19, 2020 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com) China bars three Wall Street Journal reporters as media becomes battleground Beijing kicks out journalists hours after US brands state media outlets ‘foreign mission’ but insists move was prompted by ‘sick man of Asia article’ US newspaper says two Americans and an Australian, all of whom had covered Xinjiang, had been given five days to leave the country 17 minutes ago China is world’s biggest jailer of journalists, watchdog says China said the newspaper had refused to apologise publically. Photo: Getty Images

February 18, 1990 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" excerpt from "The Courier-Journal" (Louisville, Kentucky) February 18, 2020 excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times" link to today's digital edition: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/desktop/latimes/default.aspx?edid=0549b451-54e1-4a02-886b-1a75822394fb SCIENCE FILE Stopping new coronavirus may be harder than SARS Halting spread in 2003 was a victory. But COVID-19 is a different bug. AN IMPERIAL guard wears a mask in Seoul outside the Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace during the Joseon Dynasty. South Korea has seen at least 30 cases of the novel coronavirus that began in Wuhan, China. (Ahn Young-joon Associated Press) By Soumya Karlamangla The mysterious virus first emerged in the winter in eastern China, a never-before-seen pathogen that would rattle the world’s sense of safety and ignite a global panic. In the months that followed, hundreds of people began seeking medical...