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The World Health Organization's leader laid out plans for a follow-up investigation into COVID-19's origins, including the possibility it may have escaped from a Chinese lab, following a widely panned WHO-China joint study that deemed a Wuhan lab leak "extremely unlikely." The first WHO team's visit to Wuhan earlier this year essentially dismissed the lab leak hypothesis while contending that a jump from animals to animals to humans was most likely. The report was widely considered a failure, in part due to a lack of access to key data and Chinese influence over the investigation. Meeting min...

Pentagon Racing to Stay Ahead of China in Artificial Intelligence Voice of America 17 Jul 2021, 17:35 GMT+10 The Pentagon's self-described sprint to put together a more effective plan to confront and counter a rising China may be over, but the race to stay ahead of Beijing's aggressive advancements in artificial intelligence is far from done. That initial sprint culminated in June, months after the U.S. Defense Department's China Task Force recommended a series of internal, structural changes to ensure potential Chinese military threats did not escape notice or go unanswered. Other major init...

PLA projects its power far beyond Taiwan Strait ANI 09 Jul 2021, 09:37 GMT+10 Beijing [China], July 9 (ANI): The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is making serious headway securing new military bases in Cambodia, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates, including Kiribati - one located around 1,800 miles from sensitive US military installations in Hawaii in the Indo-Pacific area. Craig Singleton, writing in Foreign Policy said that Tanzania, Cambodia, and the UAE are on China's wish list--and now Kiribati, within striking distance of Hawaii, projecting its power beyond the tense Taiwan Strait. Beiji...

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is making serious headway securing new military bases in Cambodia, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates, including Kiribati - one located around 1,800 miles from sensitive US military installations in Hawaii in the Indo-Pacific area. Craig Singleton, writing in Foreign Policy said that Tanzania, Cambodia, and the UAE are on China's wish list--and now Kiribati, within striking distance of Hawaii, projecting its power beyond the tense Taiwan Strait. Beijing is hardly content to limit its military basing pursuits to the South Pacific. Whether or not Washington...

China: PLA projects its power far beyond Taiwan Strait, eyes new military bases across Indo-Pacific ANI | Updated: Jul 09, 2021 04:58 IST Beijing [China], July 9 (ANI): The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is making serious headway securing new military bases in Cambodia, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates, including Kiribati - one located around 1,800 miles from sensitive US military installations in Hawaii in the Indo-Pacific area. Craig Singleton, writing in Foreign Policy said that Tanzania, Cambodia, and the UAE are on China's wish list--and now Kiriba...