The United States and China needed to keep up strong stimulus to help speed the global economy’s recovery from the novel coronavirus pandemic, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina … ( read original story …)
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Trump Suggests China Will Foot the Bill for Coronavirus Stimulus, Doesn’t Say How: They’ll ‘Pay Us Back In One Form or Another’
President Trump suggested that China will inevitably pay for America’s coronavirus relief package if fiscal negotiations with Congress ever see a breakthrough. ( read original story …)
China Denies ‘Coercive’ Diplomacy With Canada, Urges Release of Huawei Executive
China on Thursday denied it had taken two Canadian men hostage, and repeated a call for the release of a Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive held in Canada who faces extradition to the United States…
Beijing 1986: portraits of a forgotten China
A trove of lost photographs, taken by a junior teacher more than 30 years ago, revisits a country on the brink of social change and a landscape near eclipsed from history … ( read original…
A new coronavirus that could be even more dangerous was just discovered in China
A coronavirus strain found in pigs in China is thought to have originated in bats, which is the same route of transmission that the SARS-CoV-2 virus took. The virus attacks the gastrointestinal … ( read…
Coronavirus: China punishes two health officials over hospital cluster
Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the big stories originating in China. In addition, Deng Kai, president of the hospital, was sacked. Both Sui and Deng will … (…
Donald Trump Says China Will Pay for Stimulus Bill: ‘They’re the Ones That Caused This Problem’
The president made the comments amid an ongoing stalemate in negotiations aimed at reaching a bipartisan agreement on a relief package. ( read original story …)
India rejects China criticism of development of border area
India is rejecting criticism from China of its infrastructure building in border areas which Beijing has described as a root cause of surging tensions between the two countries … ( read original story …)
China accuses U.S. of abuse, discrimination after Ant Group report
China vowed to take measures in response to media reports of a U.S. plan to blacklist Ant Group, China’s biggest mobile payments company, which is owned and controlled by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. ( read…
With ‘great concern’: Germany watching Australia-China relationship
Germany is watching Australia’s deteriorating relationship with China with “great concern”, warning that Beijing is seen as a threat in part of the Indo-Pacific as the superpower becomes more … ( read original story …)
Coronavirus: Two health officials in China removed after cluster of 12 cases found at east coast hospital
Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the big stories originating in China. In addition, Deng Kai, president of the hospital, was sacked. Both Sui and Deng will … (…
Russia, China Rush to Fill Covid-19 Vaccine Void Left by the West’s Cautious Approach
While the U.S. and Europe await the results of large-scale clinical trials before deploying coronavirus vaccines, some other nations are moving much faster with emergency-use rollouts of experimental … ( read original story …)
China fires 2 health officials following new coronavirus outbreak
BEIJING (AP) – A hospital president and the director of the health commission in the northern Chinese city of Qingdao have been fired after China’s latest coronavirus outbreak, authorities said … ( read original story…
