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June 14, 2021

Liz Peek: Biden, G-7 flunk China test – Hold Beijing accountable for COVID? Not a chance. Here's why

Biden has convinced his fellow heads of state that not only can the U.S. "Build Back Better," but that the collective group should promote a "Build Back Better World" campaign aimed at narrowing the $40 trillion infrastructure needs of the developing world. 

June 14, 2021

China pushes back against G-7 joint statement, blames 'sinister intentions' of US, others

China's embassy in London on Monday responded to a joint statement issued by leaders at the G-7 summit in Cornwall, England, and said these countries should be focused on cooperation not “harming” its interest.

June 13, 2021

G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations

The leaders of the world’s richest countries have pledged more than 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations, endorsed a global minimum tax on multinational corporations and agreed they will work together to challenge China’s “non-market economic practices” and to call on Beijing to respect human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

June 13, 2021

Biden pressed on whether G-7 response to China human rights violations strong enough

President Biden said the U.S. and its allies are not in a contest with China "per se" but with "autocratic governments."

June 13, 2021

Secretary Blinken calls WHO's coronavirus origin investigation 'highly deficient'

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the World Health Organization's first study on the coronavirus pandemic's origins "highly deficient."

June 12, 2021

China official insists COVID lab-leak theory 'absurd' in Blinken call

A top Chinese diplomat told Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday that the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory in the city of Wuhan was an “absurd story,” the country’s state media reported.

June 12, 2021

Biden to urge G-7 leaders to stand up to China on reeducation camp abuses

President Biden on Saturday plans to urge allies to publicly call out China over its Uighur reeducation camps on the second full day of the G-7 summit.

June 11, 2021

China resurfaces false COVID-19 origin theory linked to Fort Detrick

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs repeated its assertion this week that the U.S. should open biological research facilities at Ford Detrick in Maryland for inspection, a claim that re-emerged as officials in Beijing face mounting scrutiny over the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab accident in Wuhan.

June 11, 2021

Chinese official dies during probe into marathon deaths

A Chinese county official appears to have jumped to his death during a probe into the deaths of 21 runners last month when freezing rain and gale-force winds hit the mountain on which they were competing in an ultramarathon, state television reported Friday.

June 11, 2021

Gen. Jack Keane talks major threats as world leaders to meet today at G7 summit

Gen. Jack Keane joined "Fox & Friends" Friday to discuss the threats facing the United States as President Biden attends the G7 summit in the United Kingdom. Keane called out several U.S. National Security-related problems plaguing the Biden Administration - a response to the president referring to climate change as the ‘greatest threat.’