U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Southeast Asian counterparts on Thursday that China is taking advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic … ( read original story …)
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China Imposes New Limits as Coronavirus Fears Return
Some northern cities have reported fresh cases and put restrictions on movement, a sign of how hard it will be for China to fully recover from the outbreak. ( read original story …)
China Coronavirus Cases Could Have Been Four Times Higher Than Officially Reported in February, Study Shows
Doubts over the accuracy of the virus figures officially reported by China’s health commission have been raised for weeks. ( read original story …)
Live updates: China boosts WHO funding as global pressure mounts for coronavirus inquiry; U.S. braces for more gloomy jobless figures
Rick Bright, a leading U.S. vaccine expert, says he was pushed out as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority over hydroxychloroquine. ( read original story …)
China To Give WHO $30 Million More After US Freezes Funds
China announced Thursday it will give another $30 million to the World Health Organization to help in the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, days after Washington said it would freeze … ( read original…
U.S. Scientists Not Allowed Into China to Investigate Coronavirus Origins, Mike Pompeo Says
Pompeo has been among the administration’s most vociferous China critics, and has fallen in line behind President Donald Trump in blaming Beijing for the COVID-19 pandemic. ( read original story …)
Coronavirus live updates: China will give WHO more money; Spain’s daily death toll steady
Australia will push for an international investigation into the coronavirus pandemic at next month’s annual meeting of the World Health Assembly; Spain’s daily death toll stubbornly high but steady. ( read original story …)
How coronavirus changes the political outlook in China and the U.S.
To analysts who thought the coronavirus would prove the CCP’s downfall, that view is almost certainly premature. Some U.S. experts argue the coronavirus has revealed the fragility of the CCP and could … ( read…
U.S. Pressures China To Close Wet Markets Thought To Be Source Of COVID-19
The U.S. is calling on China to permanently shut down the country’s wet markets, where the deadly coronavirus is thought to have first emerged late last year, as Australia urged an international … ( read…
China rights lawyer barred from Beijing after prison: wife
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has not been allowed to reunite with his family in Beijing following his release from prison, his wife said Thursday, after Washington urged China to lift … ( read…
Hong Kong reshuffles govt. as debate rages over Beijing’s role
Hong Kong unveiled a government shake-up on Wednesday that it said was aimed at reviving the financial hub’s beleaguered economy and had nothing to do with a recent controversy over Beijing’s role in … (…
Pompeo blasts China, WHO over coronavirus transparency failures: ‘They need to be held accountable’
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Wednesday for structural changes to the World Health Organization (WHO) and greater transparency from China over the origins of the coronavirus. ( read original story …)
China coronavirus cases may have been four times official figure, says study
More than 232,000 people may have been infected in the first wave of Covid-19 in mainland China, four times the official figures, according to a study by Hong Kong researchers. Mainland China reported … (…
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