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March 30, 2021

China reduces elected seats in Hong Kong legislature

China has sharply reduced the number of directly elected seats in Hong Kong’s legislature in a setback for the democracy movement.

March 29, 2021

Washington Post columnist blasts New York Times for calling Wuhan lab theory of COVID emergence 'debunked'

Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin blasted The New York Times over the weekend for declaring the theory that the coronavirus emerged from a Wuhan lab to have been "debunked."

March 29, 2021

Cotton blasts 'joke' WHO report on COVID origins; insists 'best evidence' points to emergence from lab

Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., explained to "Fox News Primetime" Monday why he still believes COVID-19 originated from an "accidental breach" at a laboratory in Wuhan, China after a draft World Health Organization report states the virus likely passed from animals to humans.

March 29, 2021

Iran, China sign deal to warn US against isolating them, professor says

Over the weekend, Tehran and Beijing signed a 25-year cooperation deal amidst great fanfare in the Iranian capital. University of Tehran Professor Mohammad Marandi, who is close to the regime, told Fox News that it is about much more than what's on paper. 

March 29, 2021

WaPo columnist slams NY Times for dismissing ex-CDC director's theory coronavirus came from Wuhan lab

A Washington Post columnist slammed The New York Times for "bending over backwards" to dismiss the theory that coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, tweeting that the rival liberal paper is "the opposite of objective."

March 28, 2021

Fauci warns children should continue wearing masks while playing

Fauci believes that natural adaptation of the virus is "more likely" than the theory that it escaped from a lab.

March 28, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: China's contempt for US – they seek global hegemony and this is how we're helping them

Two weeks ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Chinese diplomats dressed down Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Both seem stunned by the broadsides.  

March 28, 2021

James Carafano: Biden worsens border mess – here's how adversaries view fragile admin's self-induced crisis

In his first press conference as president, Biden addressed the border crisis by regurgitating the talking points his press team, allies and an adoring media have been repeating for days. 

March 27, 2021

China sanctions U.S. and Canadian officials, including Sen. Manchin’s wife, in tit-for-tat response

China sanctioned a number of U.S. and Canadian officials in response to heightening tension as Western nations call out the country’s alleged human rights violations of the Uighur population in the country’s Xinjiang province. 

March 26, 2021

Biden suggests plan to rival China's Belt and Road initiative to UK prime minister

President Biden suggested western nations develop a plan to rival China’s years-long Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), during a phone conversation with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Friday.