The Senate on Friday passed a bipartisan resolution calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) to act with "extreme urgency" to investigate the origins of the CCP virus, demanding full and transparent access to records in China, which senators accused of stonewalling and a "cover-up."
Upbeat talks this month between China and the Philippines after a maritime flare-up should improve a relationship that is considered pivotal to the broader, stickier South China Sea sovereignty dispute, analysts believe. On May 21, the two nations held their sixth Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea, a waterway over which both dispute…
Relations Between China, Philippines Seen Smoothing After Upbeat Talks
28 May 2021
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Upbeat talks this month between China and the Philippines after a maritime flare-up should improve a relationship that is considered pivotal to the broader, stickier South China Sea sovereignty dispute, analysts believe.
On May 21, the two nations held their sixth Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea, a waterway over which both dispute sovereignty. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, created the process in 2016 to manage differences.
Officials in Manila loudly protested in March and April the mooring of 220 Chinese fishing vessels at Whitsun Reef, a contested feature in the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands.
China Responds to Report of Wuhan Lab Staff Becoming Sick Before COVID-19 Outbreak
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The Chinese regime denied on Monday that lab staff in Wuhan were infected with COVID-19 before the pandemic, in response to a question about a WSJ report.
On May 23, the Wall Street Journal reported on an undisclosed U.S. intelligence report about three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) who sought hospital care with COVID-19-like symptoms in November 2019 one month before the onset of the “patient zero” identified by the CCP regime.
The regime asserted again that the CCP virus originated outside China.
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