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Donald Trump has moved to officially withdraw the US from the World Health Organisation during the coronavirus pandemic. The US president has formally notified the United Nations that America is leaving the WHO, prompting his presidential election rival Joe Biden to say he will rejoin immediately if elected. Mr Trump warned in May that the …

A suspected case of bubonic plague in China is being “well managed” and is not considered high risk, the World Health Organisation has said. Authorities in the city of Bayannur, in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, issued a warning on Sunday after a hospital patient – reported to be a herdsman – was feared …

“It’s something we’re looking at,” said Pompeo. he United States is looking at the possibility of banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about it in an interview with FOX News. “It’s something we’re looking at,” said Pompeo. It is the latest controversy involving China which includes increasing U.S.-China …

Mayor Sylvester Turner said city health officials will shut down the GOP Convention if it does not follow strict guidelines. “We expect all of these rules to be strictly adhered to, if this convention should go forward, there will be health inspectors and monitors that will be at the convention the entire time,” said Turner. …

To know what the Chinese are really up to, read the futuristic novels of Liu Cixin. “We are in the foothills of a Cold War.” Those were the words of Henry Kissinger when I interviewed him at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing last November.  The observation in itself was not wholly startling. It had …

The Federal Communication Commission has declared Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE “national security threats,” a move that will formally ban U.S. telecom companies from using federal funds to buy and install Huawei and ZTE equipment. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said that the “weight of evidence” supported the decision. Federal agencies and lawmakers have long …

WORLD WAR 3 tensions are at an all time high between China and the UK after the former threatened Britain with “corresponding measures” amid its condemnation of new security laws in Hong Kong. Yet, it isn’t the first time China has issued such a threat, with Beijing warning that it would take “hostile action” against …

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) quipped Monday that “we may all be moving to Canada soon” when addressing the subject of social media and election meddling, Just the News first reported. Schiff made the remark during George Washington University’s forum on “Social Media Disinformation and Election Interference” as the moderator called on Canadian Member of …

Hong Kong police today made their first arrest under a landmark new security law giving Beijing draconian powers to punish dissent in the city.  A man with a ‘Hong Kong Independence’ flag was arrested in Causeway Bay hours after the law came into force and 23 years to the day since Britain returned the former …

The US has bought almost the entire global supply of one of only two drugs proven to be effective against coronavirus.         Remdesivir, which has previously been initially developed as a failed Ebola treatment but has now been found to speeds up recovery times among Covid-19 patients, is exclusively manufactured by American pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences. …