Bejing says WHO’s intention to take a closer look at the possibility that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab is particularly objectionable and needless.
Monthly Archives For July 2021
China Refuses to Cooperate on WHO Plan to Trace COVID Origins: ‘Impossible’
A senior health official said the WHO’s proposal lacked “common sense,” arguing that the next phase of origin studies should be done globally instead.
China rejects WHO plan for study of COVID-19 origin
China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a …
The door is closing on Chinese tech IPOs on Wall Street. That could backfire on Beijing
Tough US laws requiring audits for foreign companies. A growing crackdown by Beijing that threatens to touch every part of the Chinese tech industry. A botched public offering by one of China’s most …
Why China’s governance model will be exported – whether Beijing likes it or not
Time and again, predictions of the Communist Party’s impending doom have come to nothing as its form of political governance has not only endured but thrived. The party has created a system that has …
China flooding: Death toll rises in Henan as passengers recount horror of Zhengzhou subway floods
At least 33 people have died and eight remain missing in central China, as authorities ramp up rescue and recovery efforts following devastating floods that submerged entire neighborhoods, trapped …
China floods: Drone footage shows the scale of damage as clean up begins
Drone footage has captured the scale of floods in China’s Henan province, showing stranded cars and a highway still substantially under water. And as aerial pictures show the extent of damage, BBC …
Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention center
This is one of an estimated 240 cells in just one section of Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng, seen by Associated Press journalists granted extraordinary access during a state-led tour to …
China ‘Shocked’ By WHO’s Plan To Investigate Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
The second phase of the World Health Organisation’s study into the origins of Covid-19 will also look into the hypothesis that the coronavirus may have escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
All 14 workers lost in tunnel flood in China confirmed dead
Local authorities say they have recovered the bodies of all 14 workers trapped when a tunnel under construction was flooded last week in central China …
China Opposes Studying Lab Leak in Any New Virus Origins Probe
China pushed back against the World Health Organization’s call for another probe into the coronavirus’s origins that includes examining whether it leaked from a lab, saying there’s no evidence for the …
China Offers Oil Reserves in Unprecedented Move to Cool Rally
China offered millions of barrels of oil from its strategic state reserves this month in an unprecedented move to try and quell inflation brought on by rising costs of everything from food to fuel.The …
China’s Most Direct Pushback To Probe On Corona Origin
China pushed back against the World Health Organization’s call for another probe into the coronavirus’s origins that includes examining whether it leaked from a lab, saying there’s no evidence for the …
