Maybe one day, we will discover that the impetus for Hamasâs newest onslaught against Israel wasnât the pending Supreme Court decision about whether or not to respect the property rights of Jewish landlords in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem. Maybe weâll discover that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbasâ efforts to deflect Palestinian public opinion away from his decision to cancel the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council and chairmanship had little to do with Hamasâs missile offensive against Israel or the Arab Israeli pogroms against their Jewish neighbors in cities and on roads throughout the country.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the intelligence surrounding the earlier hospitalisations.
Importantly, the intelligence community still does not know what the researchers were actually sick with, the people briefed said, and continues to have low confidence in its assessments of the virus precise origins beyond the fact that it came from China. At the end of the day, there is still nothing definitive, one of the people who has seen the intelligence said.
Photographers reflect on tragedies and triumphs of the pandemic
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers during the Worldwide Threats Hearing last month that the intelligence community does not know exactly where, when, or how COVID-19 virus was transmitted initially, an assessment that has not changed, said two of the people briefed on the intelligence.
New information on Wuhan researchers’ illness furthers debate on pandemic origins
A US intelligence report found that several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a new detail about the severity of their symptoms that could fuel further debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people briefed on the intelligence.
A State Department fact sheet released by the Trump administration in January said that the researchers had gotten sick in autumn 2019 but did not go as far as to say they had been hospitalized. China reported to the World Health Organization that the first patient with Covid-like symptoms was recorded in Wuhan on December 8, 2019.
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China finances most coal plants built today - it s a climate problem and why US-China talks are essential
Jeff Nesbit, Yale University
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(THE CONVERSATION) As nations gear up for a critical year for climate negotiations, it’s become increasingly clear that success may hinge on one question: How soon will China end its reliance on coal and its financing of overseas coal-fired power plants?
China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal power facilities in 152 countries over the past decade through its Belt and Road Initiative. Roughly 70% of the coal plants built globally now rely on Chinese funding.