Important article: What if the Shanghai lockdown isn't about COVID at all?

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7. I don't find him credible

Seems he's very anti China in his publishing, and that's fine, but this piece is written like something you'd find on Newsmax, full of grand assertions with little to back them up.

And the piece he's citing is from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yeah, this guy is out there. New Eastern Outlook is Literal Russian propaganda that goes back to the USSR.

In 2020, the United States Department of State (DOS) described New Eastern Outlook as part of "Russia's disinformation and propaganda system", where Russian state actors teamed with others whose connection to Russia was less clear, in order to get wide attention for their ideas. According to the 2020 DOS report:[5]

New Eastern Outlook is a pseudo-academic publication of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Oriental Studies that promotes disinformation and propaganda focused primarily on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. It combines pro-Kremlin views of Russian academics with anti U.S. views of Western fringe voices and conspiracy theorists.