China Pushed WHO Investigators to Dismiss Lab Leak Theory: Report

Tiffany Meier
By Tiffany Meier
August 24, 2021China in Focus
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A U.S. intelligence review of the pandemic’s China origins is due Tuesday. But the public will have to wait to see a non-classified version.

A report says Beijing pressured the World Health Organization to dismiss the Wuhan lab leak theory.

The Chinese Communist Party retaliates against a Malaysian singer, all because he compared the regime’s authoritarian power tactics with the Taliban’s.

American troops are still leaving Afghanistan, while Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative suffers inside Afghanistan’s neighbor.

China’s population may be shrinking faster than any other nation’s. Chinese women gave birth to just 1.3 children on average last year. And even the nation’s new policy changes may not be able to reverse the trend.

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