Tag: China

In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, photo, employees work in the pop-up Huoyan Laboratory specialized in the nucleic acid test on 2019-nCoV in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. The coronavirus continues to spread as of Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, China reported more than 31,000 cases.

Pompeo announces increased aid for China and other countries hit by coronavirus

Zach Halaschak · February 7, 2020 11:39 pm

Beltway Confidential

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte strikes another blow at US alliance

Tom Rogan · February 7, 2020 8:46 pm

‘End that son of a bitch’: Philippine president says he will scrap military pact with US

Joel Gehrke · February 7, 2020 5:01 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.

Trump talks with Xi Jinping about coronavirus as Chinese scientists track possible outbreak origin to pangolins

John Gage · February 7, 2020 3:16 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.

States to get CDC coronavirus tests

Cassidy Morrison · February 6, 2020 10:06 pm

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, photo, medical staff prepare beds at a temporary hospital which transformed from an exhibition center for accepting patients who diagnosed with the coronaviruses in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug.

‘Wartime conditions’: Official orders Wuhan round up residents with coronavirus and send them to quarantine camps

Zach Halaschak · February 6, 2020 9:45 pm

A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah.

National Security

Star Wars? Not quite, Pentagon says, but Space Force vision includes weapons

Abraham Mahshie · February 6, 2020 9:37 pm

Trump ‘apoplectic’ in call with Boris Johnson over Huawei decision

Caitlin Yilek · February 6, 2020 8:03 pm

Attorney General Bill Barr gives the keynote address to the CSIS China Initiative Conference in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020.

‘Time is very short’: Barr says national security depends on beating China and Huawei on 5G

Jerry Dunleavy · February 6, 2020 7:56 pm

Satellites impact every part of life in the U.S. Welcome to the future of warfare. (Air Force)

‘A threat to our allies’: Russia stalking US satellites, NATO general warns

Joel Gehrke · February 6, 2020 7:16 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, an American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘Existential threat’: US warns of Chinese espionage capabilities

Caitlin Yilek · February 6, 2020 5:10 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

Coronavirus doctor who warned of epidemic dies after contracting illness: Report

Spencer Neale · February 6, 2020 4:01 pm