Tag: China

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COVID-19 almost cured Chris Cuomo of journalism

Becket Adams · April 14, 2020 11:15 pm

A McDonald's sign is displayed outside the fast food restaurant in Wheeling, Ill., Thursday, April 9, 2020. McDonald's executives took pay cuts as the coronavirus pandemic caused March sales to plunge.

McDonald’s apologizes after store in China displays sign banning black people

John Gage · April 14, 2020 9:48 pm

Tom Cotton is seen.

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Tom Cotton was right: Coronavirus may have come from a Chinese lab

Eddie Scarry · April 14, 2020 7:06 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Washington.

Fauci points to China for late realization coronavirus was his ‘worst nightmare’

Jerry Dunleavy · April 14, 2020 7:05 pm

Josh Hawley bill aims to hold China legally responsible for coronavirus

Kerry Picket · April 14, 2020 6:07 pm

Sun Shuopeng, Vice President of China's Red Cross, right, flanked by respiratory diseases expert from the Sichuan University, Zongan Liang, third from right, speaks to journalists outside the Spallanzani Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Rome, Saturday, March 14, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. In the background doctors from the Spallanzani Hospital.

US officials sounded alarm about Wuhan lab years before coronavirus outbreak

Jerry Dunleavy · April 14, 2020 6:02 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to students and audience after his lecture at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 4, 2014. With a single meeting Thursday, the leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the U.S. and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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We’re all in this together. Well, unless you’re African

Tom Rogan · April 14, 2020 5:55 pm

Chinese inroads into Africa jeopardized over charges of racist coronavirus response

Joel Gehrke · April 14, 2020 5:12 pm

Joe Biden has endorsed a plan by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer that seeks to take more than 63 million gas vehicles off the road over a decade, replacing them with cleaner ones.

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Joe Biden’s defense strategy won’t address China and Russia

Tom Rogan · April 14, 2020 4:47 pm

McSally, other senators, call for international ban on wet markets

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2020 4:00 pm

IMF: Coronavirus pandemic has caused worst economic crisis since Great Depression

Joel Gehrke · April 14, 2020 3:37 pm

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo a woman walks by a Huawei retail store in Beijing. The Trump administration has extended for 90 more days a limited reprieve on U.S. technology sales to the Chinese technology giant Huawei. The U.S. government blacklisted Huawei in May, deeming it a national security risk so U.S. firms aren't allow to sell the company technology without government approval. But numerous loopholes have been exploited, including by U.S. semiconductor suppliers. And the administration says itâs preparing to grand some exemptions.

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Huawei has a new British problem

Tom Rogan · April 13, 2020 8:09 pm