Amid condemnation from Chinese officials, two U.S. aircraft carrier groups conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea, the Navy said in a statement Tuesday.The Navy said that the Nimitz Carrier … ( read original…
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Best of travel: Beijing and its surprising contemporary art scene
To tide us over until we’re able to travel again, we’re republishing classic travel stories from our archives. This week The post Best of travel: Beijing and its surprising contemporary art scene … ( read…
Here’s Something: Biden should boycott Beijing Winter Olympics
While all eyes are on Tokyo’s upcoming Summer Olympics, America should take a stand against the Chinese Communist Party by boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics, set to commence a year from now. ( read original…
WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab
A World Health Organization expert says the coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal … ( read original story …)
WHO mission to China fails to find source of coronavirus
The WHO mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus failed to identify the source of a pandemic which has swept across the world, but the team Tuesday ruled out the Wuhan lab-leak…
WHO backs Beijing’s claim Covid did NOT leak from a Wuhan lab
WHO scientists researching the origins of Covid in China say it is ‘extremely unlikely’ the virus leaked from a lab and have called for no further study into the theory. Instead Peter Embarek, leader … (…
Beijing presses forward with vaccine program
Beijing has completed vaccinations for the nine key groups of individuals in an effort that began at on Jan 1, a senior city official said at a news conference on Tuesday. Pang Xinghuo, deputy head…
With Mission to China, W.H.O. Tries to Rehabilitate Its Image
A lead scientist said the research showed that the virus most likely spread naturally from animals to humans, playing down the possibility that it emerged from a laboratory. ( read original story …)
‘No such indication’: WHO mission to China fails to find animal source of coronavirus
WHO foreign expert Ben Embarak, who was based in the WHO’s Beijing office for two years from 2009, backed up the assertion saying there was no evidence of ‘large outbreaks in Wuhan’ before then. (…
WHO backs Beijing’s claim there’s ‘no evidence’ of Covid in China before December
Peter Embarek, leader of the WHO team in Wuhan, said on Tuesday that researchers had not uncovered any evidence that Covid was present and circulating in China before December 2019. ( read original story …)
Thoughts on the Unfolding U.S.-Chinese Competition: Washington’s Policy Towards Beijing Enters Its Next Phase
A decade ago, when I was a junior staffer on Capitol Hill, the congressman I worked for pushed the House Armed Services Committee to launch a series of … ( read original story …)
WHO’s Covid fact-finding mission in China gives first report
The long-awaited trip, which was delayed by China, is part of what will be a lengthy process of piecing together the virus’s origin. ( read original story …)
Number of registered newborns in China drops 15% in 2020
Births in China fell sharply last year as the coronavirus pandemic intensified the scale of the demographic challenge facing the world’s most populous nation. They dropped 15 per cent from 2019, … ( read original…
