China’s Communist Party and government are stepping up the use of Twitter to spread disinformation that Wuhan was not the origin of the coronavirus outbreak and that China is helping the world recover, the State Department said. The department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), the unit charged with countering foreign propaganda and disinformation, recently discovered a…
The president’s comments, coming just hours after advisers said the agreement was on track, indicate an increasingly unstable relationship.President Trump and Vice Premier Liu He of China at the trade agreement signing in January.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York TimesMay 8, 2020WASHINGTON — President Trump criticized China for failing to hold up its end of…
The European Union has acknowledged it allowed the Chinese government to censor an opinion piece published in the country, removing a reference to the origin of the coronavirus outbreak and its subsequent spread worldwide.
A man wearing a face mask travels on a ferry to cross the Yangtze River in Wuhan in April. Chinese officials are working to silence people suspected of challenging the narrative that authorities in Wuhan and Beijing acted swiftly and efficiently to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.China on Thursday seized on comments made by a New Jersey mayor that he had contracted the novel coronavirus as early as November -- a claim that, if true, would throw the U.S. and Beijing's timelines about COVID-19 into disarray.Lijian Zhao, a…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…