China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from around the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 from the military, as it struggles to stamp out a COVID-19 outbreak.
Monthly Archives For April 2022
Shanghai extends COVID lockdown as China deploys 38,000 health workers
Health officials in China have dispatched more than 38,000 health workers to Shanghai as the city of roughly 26 million remains in an extended lockdown from a roaring outbreak of the …
FirstFT: Beijing maintains silence as west condemns Russian atrocities
China reacted mutedly to allegations that Russian troops had committed atrocities against civilians in Ukraine as Beijing attempted to balance its support for Moscow with the growing fallout from the …
Kansas researcher to mount defense over China ties at trial
The FBI agent who oversaw the investigation of a researcher accused of illegally keeping secret work he was doing for China while employed at the University of Kansas testified Monday that he didn’t …
New COVID variants found in the UK and China; How to prepare for a new wave of infections
Two new COVID subvariants have been found – one in China and another in the United Kingdom. How dangerous are they and should the US be concerned?
China Made Its Largest Corn Buy Since May, and It May Be Just the Start
Of the 1.084 million tonnes China purchased, 676,000 is old crop. Another 408,000 is for new crop. Samuel Hudson of CornBelt Marketing says the purchase had been rumored, but the big Monday buy still …
ASPI Note: Beijing Risks Being Trapped by its Zero-COVID Policy
The zero-COVID strategy that for much of the pandemic has been a source of pride for Xi and China — previously lauded by state media as having demonstrated “China’s remarkable institutional advantages …
China’s Economic Vulnerabilities
An economy the size of China’s has unavoidable vulnerabilities; and, perhaps surprising to some, bad policy choices over the past fifteen to twenty years have created new vulnerabilities. While …
China’s Support for Myanmar Further Shows the World Dividing into Autocracy versus Democracy
When the Myanmar junta first launched a coup, in February 2021, there was some discussion in the following months of the possibility that China, which had enjoyed a close relationship with the prior, …
Hunter Biden could have produced ‘blackmail opportunities’ for China: Sen. Grassley
MSNBC, ABC, CBS SIDESTEP AUTHENTICATED LAPTOP THEY DISMISSED IN 2020 WHILE ADDRESSING DOJ PROBE. SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY: Well, if there’s going to be a special counsel, …
DNA: COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai – How big threat is China’s new variant?
The new variant of Corona has once again worried the world. This new variant of Corona has also been found in China. Last time the coronavirus was spread from Wuhan city of China and once…
Gen. Kellogg: China’s Xi probably regrets his handshake with Putin
Fox News contributor Gen. Keith Kellogg (Ret.) said Monday that China may be regretting its alliance with Vladimir Putin as Russian forces fail in their military campaign against Ukraine.
Video Shows 282 Dogs, Some Destined for Meat Trade, Being Rescued in China
Conditions were so poor on the truck carrying the dogs that 12 puppies had died by the time it was intercepted by local police and activists.