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August 18, 2020

Wuhan water park hosts massive pool party in China's coronavirus ground zero

Thousands over the weekend packed into a water park in the Chinese city of Wuhan, once the epicenter of the novel coronavirus that quickly swept the globe earlier this year.

August 18, 2020

The United Nations failed to renew the arms embargo on Iran. What does that mean?

The United Nations Security Council last week rejected a U.S. effort to extend a 13-year-old embargo on Iran imports and exports of conventional weapons, including aircraft and tanks in and out of the Middle Eastern country.

August 18, 2020

Heavy rains, floods in China strand dozens on rooftops, triggering landslides

Authorities deployed helicopters in western China on Tuesday to rescue people stranded by flooding as heavy rain swelled the Yangtze and other rivers to dangerous levels, state media reported.

August 17, 2020

Former CIA officer arrested, charged with espionage, accused of sending top-secret info to China

Former CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was arrested Friday, on charges that he conspired with a relative who also served in the CIA to send Top Secret classified information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). 

August 17, 2020

Gordon Chang: Here's how China is interfering to smear Trump ahead of 2020 election

It appears Beijing’s ongoing anti-Trump effort will exceed Russian meddling both this year and in 2016.

August 17, 2020

Rebecca Grant: Kamala Harris vs. China – is VP candidate a hawk in the making?

China is already slamming Harris for “her harsh stance on China” per state-run Communist Party mouthpiece The Global Times. 

August 16, 2020

Restaurant in China apologizes after asking customers to weigh themselves before ordering

A restaurant in central China has apologized for asking customers to weigh themselves ahead of placing their orders following the introduction of a national campaign against food waste.

August 15, 2020

Sen. Ted Cruz: China sanctions me again – Communist Party is terrified and lashing out

China announced sanctions against me this week for the second time in a month. This time it was for speaking out against China’s deepening control of Hong Kong.

August 14, 2020

China's national security law triggering radical transformation of Hong Kong's human rights

Despite pledges from top Hong Kong officials that the draconian national security law, which contains 66 articles and criminalizes succession and subversion, to terrorism and collusion, would only impact a small fraction of the seven million population, almost every facet of the once independent enclave – from education to civil society to technology – has been radically transformed in just over a month.

August 13, 2020

State Dept. calls out Confucius Institute center as foreign mission pushing China's 'global propaganda'

The State Department on Thursday designated the Confucius Institute U.S. Center (CIUS) as a Chinese foreign mission, the latest move in the Trump administration’s crackdown on Beijing’s influence in the U.S.