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The U.S. Relationship With China Is in Trouble. That’s a Challenge for Climate Change Xi Jinping

The U.S. Relationship With China Is in Trouble. That’s a Challenge for Climate Change

As the coronavirus pandemic rages, the Trump administration’s already-rocky relationship with China has deteriorated. President Trump has sought to blame the country for the public health and economic disaster, for a time calling the new coronavirus the “Wuhan virus” or the “Chinese virus,” and as recently as May 7, spreading…
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May 21, 2020
America’s latest salvo against Huawei is aimed at chipmaking in China Xi Jinping

America’s latest salvo against Huawei is aimed at chipmaking in China

AMERICA HAS it in for Huawei—and not just because some of its politicians fear the Chinese giant’s networking gear lets spooks in Beijing eavesdrop on customers’ communications. The firm, a world leader in futuristic 5G telecoms, also symbolises China’s technological and economic ascent. President Donald Trump does not like it…
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May 21, 2020
Trump points finger at China’s Xi Jinping, escalating fight over virus Xi Jinping

Trump points finger at China’s Xi Jinping, escalating fight over virus

By: Bloomberg | Published: May 21, 2020 10:06:31 am Donald Trump added that China was “desperate” to have former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, win the presidential race. (Reuters)President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against China, suggesting that the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, is behind a “disinformation…
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May 21, 2020
Europe is abandoning Trump on the world stage as it turns away from the US toward China Xi Jinping

Europe is abandoning Trump on the world stage as it turns away from the US toward China

Analysis bannerBusiness InsiderPresident Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has triggered global criticism.GettyRecent polling suggests Europeans are turning away from the US under President Donald Trump's leadership.Public opinion toward America has declined in major European countries since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.Seventy-six percent of Germans in a new…
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May 20, 2020
Trump Just Threatened to Withdraw From the WHO Unless ‘Major’ Changes Are Made Xi Jinping

Trump Just Threatened to Withdraw From the WHO Unless ‘Major’ Changes Are Made

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.On the day that China pledged $2 billion to the World Health Organization and announced the country’s coronavirus vaccines would be freely available to all, U.S. President Donald Trump declared war on the global health authority, threatening to…
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May 19, 2020
Trump threatens to permanently halt WHO funding, membership unless WHO chief makes ‘major substantive improvements’ Xi Jinping

Trump threatens to permanently halt WHO funding, membership unless WHO chief makes ‘major substantive improvements’

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via Associated PressPresident Donald Trump wrote a letter to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, that says unless the organization makes "major substantive improvements" in the next 30 days, the US will permanently cut…
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May 19, 2020
Trump rejected an invitation to address WHO while China’s Xi accepted, in another example of the US retreating from global leadership Xi Jinping

Trump rejected an invitation to address WHO while China’s Xi accepted, in another example of the US retreating from global leadership

Analysis bannerBusiness InsiderTrump XiEugene Hoshiko/Getty Images; ReutersPresident Donald Trump rejected an invitation to address the World Health Organization, with the US secretary of health and human services talking to the virtual gathering on Monday instead.Alex Azar used the address as an opportunity to slam the agency, accusing it of failing…
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May 18, 2020