Anaheim Commissioner Removed After Blaming CCP for Pandemic
Anaheim city council stripped a commissioner of his title after comments he made about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus.
Council unanimously voted to remove Larry Larson’s commissioner status from the sister cities commission during an April 27 city council meeting.
“They’re going to destroy me and my reputation, kick me off sister cities which you voted to put me on because I said, ‘China virus,’” Larsen told council.
The issue began when the sister city commission, which works to develop Anaheim’s cultural and economic relationships with international cities, considered partnering with Pudong, China on Feb. 22.
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2021-04-16 09:40:51 GMT2021-04-16 17:40:51(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SHANGHAI, April 16 (Xinhua) Shanghai, the city that witnessed ping-pong diplomacy between China and the United States in 1971, has played an important role and immensely benefited from the China-U.S. economic and trade exchanges, according to entrepreneurs and experts in the city.
During a series of commemorative events on the 50th anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy, some impressive investment and trade figures involving the two countries were released.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. investment into Shanghai saw double-digit growth last year, bringing the aggregate contractual investment of the United States into the city to more than 28 billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2020, according to the Shanghai municipal commission of commerce. Meanwhile, enterprises in Shanghai have invested more than 22.4 billion U.S. dollars in the United States.