This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWith testing underway on five experimental vaccines in China and four in the United States, the race to produce a vaccine for covid-19 has taken on political dimensions that echo jockeying for technological dominance during the Cold War, including the space race after the launch of Sputnik in 1957.The same day in mid-March that the United States of its first experimental , scientists in China announced their own trial would begin. Days after a company from the first U.S. human tests last month, a of the Chinese trial was...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareWith testing underway on five experimental vaccines in China and four in the United States, the race to produce a vaccine for covid-19 has taken on political dimensions that echo jockeying for technological dominance during the Cold War, including the space race after the launch of Sputnik in 1957.The same day in mid-March that the United States of its first experimental , scientists in China announced their own trial would begin. Days after a company from the first U.S. human tests last month, a of the Chinese trial was...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareRising tensions between the United States and China brought fresh mudslinging Wednesday as a sharp dispute over responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic spills into new forums such as Taiwan.In the span of several hours, the feud swung from Taipei to Beijing to the Internet, where an animated " on Chinese state TV's Twitter feed mocked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.President Trump then lashed out at China for a "worldwide killing" from covid-19 — part of messages that could become talking points in the presidential...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareRising tensions between the United States and China brought fresh mudslinging Wednesday as a sharp dispute over responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic spills into new forums such as Taiwan.In the span of several hours, the feud swung from Taipei to Beijing to the Internet, where an animated " on Chinese state TV's Twitter feed mocked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.President Trump then lashed out at China for a "worldwide killing" from covid-19 — part of messages that could become talking points in the presidential...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareSEOUL — . . Beijing is stepping up its pressure campaign on Western multinationals and academics who raised concern about ethnic oppression in China’s northwest Xinjiang region.Xinjiang officials warned international companies in a news conference on Monday to be careful of blowback, after to boycott H&M, Nike and other brands that have shied away from Xinjiang cotton because of elevated risk of forced labor in the region.“When you swing the big stick of sanctions at Xinjiang companies, you will also hit yourself,”...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareSEOUL — . . Beijing is stepping up its pressure campaign on Western multinationals and academics who raised concern about ethnic oppression in China’s northwest Xinjiang region.Xinjiang officials warned international companies in a news conference on Monday to be careful of blowback, after to boycott H&M, Nike and other brands that have shied away from Xinjiang cotton because of elevated risk of forced labor in the region.“When you swing the big stick of sanctions at Xinjiang companies, you will also hit yourself,”...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBeijing has targeted a high-profile U.S.-based researcher whose work has been critical to exposing human rights abuses in China’s northwest, with state media reporting he is by companies in the Xinjiang region.In a telephone interview from his home in Minnesota on Tuesday night, Adrian Zenz said he believed the lawsuit was a sign that on the region were having a significant effect. He said Beijing was probably seeking to create a chilling effect on other researchers doing similar work.“It is the first admission that they...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareBeijing has targeted a high-profile U.S.-based researcher whose work has been critical to exposing human rights abuses in China’s northwest, with state media reporting he is by companies in the Xinjiang region.In a telephone interview from his home in Minnesota on Tuesday night, Adrian Zenz said he believed the lawsuit was a sign that on the region were having a significant effect. He said Beijing was probably seeking to create a chilling effect on other researchers doing similar work.“It is the first admission that they...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareSEOUL — The from Sunday night in China look like something out of a science-fiction movie: Hundreds of workers in an airport parking structure surge against guards in white hazmat suits who block the exit. The workers yell. The security officers yell back through megaphones.“Just let me go,” shouts one man in the crowd. “I don’t want to die here,” cries out another.The reason that more than 17,000 employees were sealed inside Shanghai’s main airport on Sunday? Seven cases of the novel coronavirus were linked to the cargo...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareSEOUL — The from Sunday night in China look like something out of a science-fiction movie: Hundreds of workers in an airport parking structure surge against guards in white hazmat suits who block the exit. The workers yell. The security officers yell back through megaphones.“Just let me go,” shouts one man in the crowd. “I don’t want to die here,” cries out another.The reason that more than 17,000 employees were sealed inside Shanghai’s main airport on Sunday? Seven cases of the novel coronavirus were linked to the cargo...WW…