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A former associate director of a US biotechnology company is facing up to seven years in prison in China after allegedly hiding her coronavirus symptoms and flying from Los Angeles to Beijing in hopes of receiving treatment. The Chinese national, 37, gobbled down anti-fever medicine at LAX to suppress her high temperatures before boarding the 13-hour flight back to her homeland with her husband and son, Chinese authorities said. The mother-of-one, named as Jie Li, worked for Biogen, a multinational firm at the center of an outbreak of the coronavirus in Massachusetts. Around 30 per cent of the confirmed cases...

Sorry but it seems like there is some effort to make a claim, that the trade situation with China is improving... Nope. It is getting worse. American exports to China are (way) down from last year, and we just set a new all-time bad trade deficit last year with China. A world record, all-time high. Ever. Between any two countries. In the entire history of the WORLD. The worst ever. And the data does not even include December yet. See for yourself: https://census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

After reading how the Chinese economy is "tanking" because they "only" had a 6.6% economic growth rate, and how the US economy is "exploding" because of 2.7% economic growth, I thought it might be illustrative to collect various links on this subject. CHINA China’s 2018 economic growth sinks to 3-decade low China's economy grew 6.6% in 2018, the lowest pace in 28 yearsUSA U.S. economy to grow 2.7 percent in 2018, boosted by Trump tax overhaulUS economy grew modestly to start 2018United States GDP Growth Rate | 2019US Economic Outlook for 2019 and BeyondUS economic growth revised down to 2.2%...

BEIJING : President Hu Jintao was named China's top military chief on Sunday, promptly telling the army to prepare for war to safeguard the country's territorial integrity, in an apparent reference to Taiwan. In a move that marked the final step in China's first bloodless leadership transition, Hu, 62, replaced aging former leader Jiang Zemin, 78, as chairman of the state's Central Military Commission (CMC). He was selected by an overwhelming majority of 2,886 votes to six against and five undecided at a meeting of China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), the official Xinhua news agency said. State television...