Taiwan has an increasingly difficult position to gain as China pressures the democratic island to accept conditions it would become in the next Hong Kong, its top diplomat said on Tuesday during a visit to U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar. Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday as the highest-level U.S. …
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The Chinese laboratory accused of a possible source of COVID-19 has opened its doors to an American television team – to “100 percent” claim that the deadly global pandemic did not occur there. NBC News said its crew spent nearly five hours at the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology that …
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Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and robbed the publisher’s headquarters in high profile on Monday while still using a new national security law that Beijing had on the city in June. “Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at the moment,” Mark Simon, executive …
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Taipei, Taiwan U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday during a high-level visit by a U.S. Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic ties between Washington and Taipei in 1979, when the US recognized China. Beijing has protested Azar’s …
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The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider making a contribution. Trump administration health secretary Alex Azar said today that any U.S.-developed coronavirus vaccine would be shared with the rest of the world – but only after the needs of …
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