Donald Trump late Monday threatened to permanently stop funding of the World Health Organization and reconsider membership of the United States in the body. The president shared a four page letter written to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to Twitter, saying the organization needs to make ‘major substantive improvements within the next 30 days’ for US … Read more
Top Chinese leaders fled to a secret resort to avoid coronavirus at the height of the outbreak, report reveals A Hong Kong paper said that officials retreated to secret villas amid outbreak The tightly guarded Jade Spring Hill is billed as China’s ‘political back garden’ The public are banned from entering the hideaway on the … Read more
The EU is accused of watering down a report on China‘s coronavirus disinformation campaign after Beijing pressured the bloc, according to media reports. The New York Times and South China Morning Post say they have obtained the initial copies of a European report published on Friday which carefully documents how rogue states are pushing ‘fake … Read more
Lawyers in the US have launched a landmark legal action to sue China for trillions of dollars over the coronavirus pandemic, accusing its Communist leaders of negligence for allowing the outbreak to erupt and then covering it up. The class action, which involves thousands of claimants from 40 countries including Britain and the US, was … Read more
It was Vladimir Lenin – one of Xi Jinping’s favourite philosophers – who famously said capitalists would end up selling the very rope the communists would use to hang them. And for once, the Russian revolutionary is exactly right. We’re lucky to live in a country known for fairness and the rule of law. Our judicial … Read more
There is scant comfort for Britain and other Western democracies in seeing China – the source of the deadly Covid-19 virus – emerging so rapidly and strongly from the crisis. The Chinese economy is already up and running again even as the US, the UK and other nations are battling to hold back the tide … Read more
China‘s official news agency has released a coronavirus timeline to hit back at accusations that Beijing tried to cover up the full scale of the outbreak. State-run Xinhua said that the timeline, published on Monday, proved how the country ‘has shared information and advanced international cooperation’ in the fight against the killer bug. The 37-page … Read more
The Great Hall of the People has held many historic events since it was built six decades ago as a symbol of Communist Party power, ranging from the pomp of state funerals to a giant banquet during Richard Nixon’s famous 1973 visit. So as deaths started to spiral in China from coronavirus and fear grew … Read more