by Jim Heath | Jun 16, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines
China is rounding up Beijing residents and forcing them into quarantine as the capital goes back into lockdown amid an ‘extremely severe’ coronavirus outbreak. Footage shows officials in hazmat suits barking orders through a megaphone while people line up...
by Jim Heath | Apr 24, 2020 | Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president. But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1...
by Jim Heath | Apr 11, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic — which is believed to have first spread to humans at a “wet market” in Wuhan, China, where live animals were sold for food — China has created new guidelines on which animals can be bred for eating. In one...
by Jim Heath | Apr 6, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Despite warnings from health officials that the coronavirus pandemic isn’t over yet, substantial numbers of people traveled to popular tourist sites and major cities across China over the country’s holiday weekend. Sites such as the famous Bund waterfront in Shanghai...
by Jim Heath | Apr 2, 2020 | coronavirus, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Health
Global coronavirus cases have soared past one million as the pandemic explodes in the US and the death tolls continue to climb in Italy and Spain, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The deadly virus has killed more than 51,000 across the world, with the...