One U.S. agency says with moderate confidence the virus infected humans after a lab incident, but four others say with low confidence it emerged naturally.
Monthly Archives For August 2021
Biden Pushes China to Release ‘Critical’ COVID Info After Beijing Warns of ‘Counterattack’
Biden vowed to pursue answers to questions that remain about the origin of COVID-19 and to pressure China to cooperate with investigations.
US intel reports fail to determine COVID-19 origins, Biden blasts China
A three-month investigation by the US intelligence community has failed to determine the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden said Friday, …
What’s the end game for China’s crackdown on private tutoring? Beijing wants a fair and sustainable society
Beijing’s grand plan to revamp the country’s education system is one piece of the Chinese leadership’s bigger goal to engineer a fairer society.
U.S. intelligence finds China did not know about COVID-19 before outbreak, still divided over origin
The Biden administration report on the origins of COVID-19 found the virus “was not developed as a biological weapon.” It also concluded China “did not have foreknowledge of the virus before the …
One U.S. intel agency believes Covid likely emerged from lab accident in China
One U.S. agency says with moderate confidence the virus infected humans after a lab incident, but four others say with low confidence it emerged naturally.
Iraq to build first solar projects with China to reduce dependence on Iranian power imports
Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity signed on Wednesday a contract with China’s state-owned Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) to build its first solar power plants with a capacity of …
China tech rally ends on report of new IPO rules; Alibaba Group falls 3.9%
The Hang Seng Tech Index closed 0.2 per cent lower in Hong Kong after rising as much as 2 per cent in the morning …
Fed chair Powell signals stimulus tapering could start this year, but warns of Delta variant risks – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news …
Genes may add to ethnic COVID-19 disparities; sickest patients unwell a year later
The varying impacts of COVID-19 among ethnic groups might be partially due to genetic differences in the cell-surface protein the virus uses as a gateway, an international research team found. In the …
US intelligence: Origin of COVID-19 remains unclear, but China’s leaders did not know about virus before outbreak began
Origin of COVID-19 remains unclear, but China’s leaders did not know about virus before outbreak began.
US intelligence still divided on origins of coronavirus in new report
U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on the origins of the coronavirus but believe China’s leaders did not know about the virus before the start of the global pandemic, according to results …
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Split on Covid-19 Origins, Offer No High-Confidence Conclusions in New Report
The U.S. intelligence community said Thursday that it was divided over the exact origin of Covid-19 in China. In May, President Joe Biden ordered a closer intelligence review of what he described as …
