Tag: China

Beltway Confidential

Trump has met his Hurricane Katrina, media declare for the umpteenth time

Becket Adams · March 10, 2020 1:24 am

Slow coronavirus test rollout marked Trump administration early response to outbreak

Cassidy Morrison · March 9, 2020 7:59 pm

Beltway Confidential

Calling coronavirus ‘Wuhan virus’ isn’t racist, but China wants you to think it is

Jordan Schachtel · March 9, 2020 7:00 pm

Two women wearing masks walk away from the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle, Monday, March 2, 2020. Health officials in Washington state said Sunday night that a second person had died from the coronavirus.

For my family, coronavirus can’t get here soon enough

Daryl Austin · March 9, 2020 4:00 am

Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

‘That would really be historic’: Trump wants NATO to tighten ties with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro

Joel Gehrke · March 7, 2020 11:35 pm

Chinese coronavirus quarantine hotel collapses

Anthony Leonardi · March 7, 2020 7:35 pm

‘Wuhan coronavirus’: Pompeo mocks Beijing claim that coronavirus outbreak may not have originated in China

Joel Gehrke · March 6, 2020 10:01 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.

‘Global espionage operation’: US wages all-out campaign to convince UK to reject Huawei

Jerry Dunleavy · March 6, 2020 8:10 pm

Coronavirus has mutated at least once into two strains, study finds

Zach Halaschak · March 5, 2020 5:25 pm

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

Coronavirus highlights the threat of US-China integration

Emily de La Bruyère and Nathan Picarsic · March 5, 2020 5:00 am

National Security

Chinese company accuses CIA of decadelong hacking campaign

Caitlin Yilek · March 4, 2020 11:42 pm

Signs, reading in Spanish "Drugstore, handicrafts and U.S. 100 meters," are seen at the international border crossing between San Ysidro, CA, and Tijuana, in Mexico.

Washington Secrets

328 Chinese nationals caught entering US illegally

Paul Bedard · March 4, 2020 10:19 pm