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Instead of learning from South Korea’s coronavirus example, Trump is lying about it
In The News
The Trump White House doesn’t think the pandemic can be contained, but South Korea shows it is possible. Rather than learn from its example, President Trump and his officials ...
By Kristine Lee
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Beijing blocking Wikipedia from United Nations intellectual property agency over Taiwan is resistance against ‘Western values’, analysts say
In The News
Beijing’s move effectively blocking Wikipedia from gaining observer status at a United Nations agency last week on the grounds that it has a Taiwan subsidiary serves at least ...
By Kristine Lee
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China Wins Seat at International Tribunal on Law of the Sea
In The News
China’s candidate has won an election to be a judge on a key United Nations-affiliated agency responsible for hearing cases concerning the Law of the Sea, despite U.S. opposit...
By Kristine Lee
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U.S. Slaps Sanctions on Xinjiang’s Vast Paramilitary Settler Corps
In The News
The Trump administration slapped sanctions on a vast paramilitary Chinese colonial enterprise in Xinjiang and two Chinese officials on Friday, in a move likely to drive the U....
By Kristine Lee
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Deteriorating relations with China put US companies on edge
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American businesses are wary of the growing animosity between the U.S. and China, particularly as Trump administration officials are starting to name and shame companies they ...
By Kristine Lee
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Trump ramps up China tensions with consulate shutdown
In The News
President Trump's move to close the Chinese Consulate in Houston is the latest escalation between Washington and Beijing, whose relations have spiraled at a dizzying pace sinc...
By Kristine Lee
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Allies bite their tongues after Trump withdraws from WHO
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President Trump’s move to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) has received only muted criticism from allied nations as they look to preserve American co...
By Kristine Lee
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China's Publicized WHO Fundraising Drive Falls Short of Hype
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A highly touted Chinese drive to raise funds for the World Health Organization, launched after President Donald Trump announced he was ending financial support for the WHO, ha...
By Kristine Lee
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North Korea Promises to Advance Nuclear Weapons as It Turns Back to Foreign Affairs
In The News
North Korea, on the second anniversary of the historic Singapore summit between Kim Jong Un and President Trump, said relations with the U.S. had “shifted into despair” and pr...
By Kristine Lee
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Behind China’s Twitter Campaign, a Murky Supporting Chorus
In The News
As the Trump administration lashes out at China over a range of grievances, Beijing’s top diplomats and representatives are using the president’s favorite online megaphone &md...
By Kristine Lee
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China in the global spotlight as its annual political congress gets underway
In The News
The huge and highly choreographed set piece of the Chinese political calendar got underway Friday with around 3,000 Communist Party officials and military delegates descending...
By Kristine Lee
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Cold War 2.0: How Trump's Attacks on China Could Backfire
In The News
In September of 1946, Nikolai Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., penned what would become known as the Novikov Telegram, which assessed the foreign policy of Presiden...
By Kristine Lee
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Chinese propaganda tactics shifting to elevate, amplify Russian disinformation
Chinese Communist Party tactics have shifted to imitate classic Russian disinformation campaigns, as well as amplify bogus stories from Moscow to pin the blame for coronavirus...
By Kristine Lee
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Who is winning the China-US race to run the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic?
In The News
In 2018, President Xi Jinping said China would “take an active part in leading the reform of the global governance system”, as part of an effort to build “a community with a s...
By Kristine Lee
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Chinese Agents Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say
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The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the cellphone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling with the onset of the c...
By Kristine Lee
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Trump’s critique of WHO may be a diversion, but it resonates beyond the White House
President Trump is not happy with the World Health Organization. He is not the only one. On Tuesday, in the middle of a global pandemic, Trump announced that he is freezing f...
By Kristine Lee
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China Wins: Why Trump's WHO Funding Cut is a Gift to Beijing
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When he accused the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday of going soft on China over the COVID-19 pandemic and suspended U.S. payments to the agency, President Donald Tr...
By Kristine Lee
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On China and the World Health Organisation, Donald Trump wants to have it both ways
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On 7 April, amid a global pandemic, Donald Trump returned to familiar territory: bashing China and an international institution. “The WHO really blew it,” the US president twe...
By Kristine Lee
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U.S. and China Turn Coronavirus Into a Geopolitical Football
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In a bid to restore its reputation globally, China claims to have fundamentally contained the spread of coronavirus in its hardest-hit areas and has pledged $20 million to hel...
By Kristine Lee
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US walks tightrope as coronavirus hits adversaries
The spread of coronavirus around the globe is raising questions about how the United States should help its adversaries mitigate the disease. The Trump administration has sent...
By Kristine Lee
