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A Chinese pharmaceutical company has injected hundreds of thousands of people with experimental Covid-19 vaccines, as its Western counterparts warn against administering mass vaccinations before rigorous scientific studies are complete. China National Biotec Group Co., a subsidiary of state-owned Sinopharm, has given two experimental vaccine candidates to hundreds of thousands of people under an emergency-use…

Beijing on Thursday hit back at a U.S. decision to revoke visas for more than a 1,000 Chinese students and researchers who the American government deemed posed a security risk or had ties to China's military.Prejudice was behind the visa decision, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said.The move was "outright political persecution and racial…

China is on track to double the size of its nuclear warhead stockpile while expanding foreign military bases capable of attacking the United States — worrying signs Beijing is seeking global superpower status, according to the Pentagon’s annual report on the Chinese military released Tuesday. Currently, the People’s Liberation Army has a warhead stockpile in…

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway tapes her speech for the third day of the Republican National Convention from the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington on Wednesday. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders, gave one more official boost to her boss during the third night of the Republican…

China on Wednesday conducted a flight test of an anti-ship ballistic missile into the South China Sea, just as the Trump administration was unveiling new sanctions on Chinese officials over militarization in the disputed waterway. The test of two missiles, a DF-26 and a DF-21D — road-mobile missiles with enough precision to strike a ship…