The Lowy institute excluded China from its ranking of Covid-19 response by country. Just look at that farcical ranking:
They can't put China in the list because of "lack of publicly available data on testing". What planet are you living in
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? These are the 2 researchers credited for that ranking. All that news, all that scientific data coming out of China? That don't count? Why is Taiwan on the list instead of China? What a sly way to portray Taiwan as 'separate' from China. A-holes!
I don't buy their "lack of publicly available data on testing" excuse:
1) It can't be language barrier. They have no problems getting data from Taiwan.
2) It can't be 'Communist govt' problem, because Vietnam is on the list.
3) It can't be a 'remoteness' problem, because they could obtain data from Rwanda, and Libya.
4) It can't be unreliable data, because India still made it on their list.
Imagine if China was on the list. It would be at the top based on the performance to population ratio. Then the #1 on the list won't be a democratic, Caucasian, anglophone country anymore.
So who are the Lowy Institute:
Yeah. "Providing high-quality research" my butt. Its a shame that some news media would even take reference from this farcical research by the Lowy Institute.