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As the Trump administration continues to scrutinize all aspects of America’s relations with China, the University of North Texas has expelled 15 Chinese researchers who were funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, a government organization.
U.S.-China relations have got much worse in the last week. Today’s news is China’s closure of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu in retaliation for the U.S. shutdown of the P.R.C.’s Houston consulate.
The Trump administration has ordered the closure of China’s consulate in Houston, Texas, alleging that it is a center for “massive illegal spying and influence operations.” This is a huge escalation of U.S.-China tensions.
Some U.S. lawmakers are trying to find ways to allow citizens and states to sue China over COVID-19. Perhaps they think scapegoating a country is easier than promoting sensible policies to combat the virus at home.
Once deemed a symptom of “wrong” political thinking, mental illness has a fraught history in the People’s Republic. While the last two decades have seen rapid development in mental health care in China, there remain significant problems with stigma from an under-informed public, the government’s preoccupation with political stability, and under-resourcing. As a result, many are unable to access the services they desperately need, while others are forced into unnecessary treatment.
Medical workers transferred the bodies of people who had died after contracting the virus to a temporary morgue in Brooklyn on Monday.Credit…Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock...
Since last January, at least 20 ethnically Chinese scientists have made the news for potentially having ties with China. A big impetus for the investigations was China’s Thousand Talents Plan, a government program to recruit top foreign scientists overseas to work in Chinese universities and produce publications and patents.
With COVID-19 at its peak in February, authorities in China found themselves fighting on two fronts: the disease itself, and also a rash of misinformation flooding...
We’re all in the same boat What began a few months ago as a China-only phenomenon is now a global infectious disease outbreak unlike anything...