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Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences claim the pandemic actually originated in India, explaining that a heatwave there from May to June 2019 spawned a water crisis, which in turn led to increased close contact between humans and wild animals such as monkeys.  In a preprint paper with the …

Donald Trump may be on the way out, but he’s far from finished on China. On Monday, it was announced that an additional 89 Chinese firms are to be added to a US blacklist and considered a ‘national security threat’ over their purported ties to Beijing’s military. The firms, almost all …

If the list is published, US suppliers will have to obtain special licenses from the US government to export various items to those firms. This reportedly applies to everything from computer software like word processing, to scientific equipment like digital oscilloscopes, and aircraft parts and components. While obtaining such a …

“While containing the virus, we need to restore the secure and smooth operation of global industrial and supply chains,” China’s leader told the virtual G20 summit late on Saturday, while advocating the need to “reduce tariffs and barriers” and “liberalize” the trade of crucial medical supplies. He also called for …

People’s Republic of China is “increasingly exploiting United States capital to resource and to enable the development and modernization of its military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses,” which allows Beijing to “directly threaten the United States homeland and United States forces overseas,” Trump said in the order, issued on Thursday. …

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin hit back at Pompeo on Friday, after the top US diplomat told the New York Post that Beijing was running a spying operation out of its New York consulate. “Pompeo’s allegations concerning Chinese diplomatic and consular missions in the US and their staff are …

The US will not force current American users to stop using the apps, but would instead prevent them from installing updates, Reuters reported. Washington will also order Apple, Google and other firms to make the apps unavailable on their platforms within the United States. However, the commerce department will not …

China’s ByteDance informed the suitor on Sunday that it won’t be selling the business to Microsoft. The impasse may give the upper hand to Oracle, another US technology firm that has reportedly been in talks with Beijing-based ByteDance. Shortly after the news broke, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal reported …

Occasionally a book comes along that captivates the imagination of the establishment gatekeepers less by the intellectual foundation upon which it is built than by its extreme ideological tilt. ‘One Billion Americans’ by Vox journalist Matt Yglesias promises to be that book. The premise is simple to the point of …

Responding to news of potential US sanctions against Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said the US was “blatantly bullying” Chinese firms. On Friday, the US Department of Defense reportedly warned it might block American companies from providing goods and services to SMIC. The Trump administration …