Xi Jinping

WASHINGTON — As negotiators wrapped up the framework of President Donald Trump’s vaunted trade deal in December, China may have provided a missed clue about the coronavirus outbreak already unfolding there: insistence on a provision allowing for an out in case of “a natural disaster or other unforeseeable event.” Such…

China might be secretly conducting nuclear tests with very low explosive power despite Beijing’s assertions that it is strictly adhering to an international accord banning all nuclear tests, according to a new arms-control report to be made public by the State Department. The coming report doesn’t present proof that China…

China knew the novel coronavirus could spread among humans and become a pandemic but didn't tell the world for six days, The Associated Press found.A damning memo of a January 14 call obtained by the AP warned top officials about human-to-human transmission and said to prepare for a pandemic.But in…

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Chinese authorities knew that coronavirus could pass from human to human for at least six days before it told the world, according to internal documents leaked to AP. During those six days, at least 3,000 more people…

In the face of overwhelming evidence that the Trump administration has failed to heed warnings and bungled its response to the growing coronavirus pandemic, some Republicans in the Senate are on the trail of the real culprit in this catastrophe: the World Health Organization. In a letter to the United…

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have been pushed inside, like many of us around the world, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts everyday life. School, work, and other events have been moved online — including protests. Activists are using Nintendo’s new, idyllic life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons to support Hong…

China is trying to ban people from playing the hugely popular Nintendo Switch game ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ because protesters are using the game to criticize President Xi Jinping and the government of Hong Kong. The game, which was released last month, is a social simulation game where players live…

Nintendo’s popular Animal Crossing: New Horizons game has disappeared from China’s biggest e-commerce site—and many on Chinese social media are blaming players in Hong Kong, who used the game to spread pro-democracy messages. Sellers on Taobao, China’s equivalent of eBay, found that Animal Crossing had disappeared from their online stores…

Police officers in Wuhan stand in silence as traffic stops during a three-minute silence to coronavirus victims on April 4, 2020.Getty ImagesChina held a three-minute-long national moment of silence to honor victims of the novel coronavirus on Saturday morning.Among those who were honored was Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who…

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