I wrote this explainer about the legal environment of information control in China and the most prominent examples of publicly inaccessible data from recent history. This piece has little to do with COVID-19, although that is the obvious context, so I'm sharing others' views: https://twitter.com/hongkongfp/status/1249502669154254851

Isaac Stone Fish wrote an op-ed (paywalled) in the Washington Post on how media should go about reporting on China's official figures. Here is his Twitter thread on that topic https://twitter.com/isaacstonefish/status/1247589759444279296

Journalist Laurel Chor has an excellent thread about the responsibility of journalists when looking for alternative sources of data in China https://twitter.com/laurelchor/status/1246402297179058176?s=21

Journalist Tianyu M. Fang shares this take on the highly politicized blame game and the West's inadequate virus response https://twitter.com/tianyuf/status/1245980016388657152?s=21