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Revisions on China: Abandoning the Nixon Legacy

read full article here Revisions on China: Abandoning the Nixon Legacy Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Image from ocregister.com : Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) There is little doubt about it. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the puffed-up hawk of the Trump administration, talons at the ready, beak protruding. While the […]

Tight security outside US Chengdu consulate after China orders closure

read full article here Tight security outside US Chengdu consulate after China orders closure SHUT DOWN: Police officers march past the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, July 25. Thomas Peter/Reuters CHENGDU, China – Security was tight outside the U.S. consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Saturday as staff inside prepared […]

How a Chinese agent used LinkedIn to hunt for targets

read full article here How a Chinese agent used LinkedIn to hunt for targets Dickson Yeo Jun Wei Yeo, an ambitious and freshly enrolled Singaporean PhD student, was no doubt delighted when he was invited to give a presentation to Chinese academics in Beijing in 2015. His doctorate research was about Chinese foreign policy and […]

What is driving China’s aggression?

read full article here What is driving China’s aggression? Centralised foreign policymaking; the return of ideology; and the need to act like a major power Not since Mao Zedong’s era has personality, instead of institutions, mattered so much in China’s approach to the world. (AP) There has been growing debate in recent times in India […]

Lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ suggest COVID-19 virus can infect human brain cells

read full article here Lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ suggest COVID-19 virus can infect human brain cells A multidisciplinary team from two Johns Hopkins University institutions, including neurotoxicologists and virologists from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and infectious disease specialists from the school of medicine, has found that organoids (tiny tissue cultures made from human cells that […]

China, Arab countries agree to enhance cooperation

read full article here China, Arab countries agree to enhance cooperation BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) — China and Arab countries on Monday agreed to jointly fight COVID-19, deepen cooperation in various fields, and embrace new prospects in building a China-Arab community with a shared future. The agreements were reached during the 9th ministerial meeting of […]

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on July 6, 2020

read full article here Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s Regular Press Conference on July 6, 2020 CCTV: Following WHO’s last update on the timeline of its response to COVID-19, chairman of the China Task Force in the US House of Representatives Michael McCaul said that the Chinese Communist Party is finally admitting to the world […]

How Saudis, Qataris, and Emiratis Took Washington

read full article here How Saudis, Qataris, and Emiratis Took Washington Trump with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. A Monumental Lobbying Battle Over American Foreign Policy It was a bare-knuckle brawl of the first order. It took place in Washington, D.C., and it resulted in a KO. The winners? Lobbyists […]

New platform on EU-Turkey cooperation launched

read full article here New platform on EU-Turkey cooperation launched BRUSSELS A new initiative fostering cooperation between Turkish lawmakers and members of the European Parliament was launched on Wednesday. The EU-Turkey Friendship Group will work as an informal alliance between parliamentarians from Turkey and the EU with the aim to improve the relationship and to […]