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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has held an unequivocal position about China and the coronavirus — several of them. Trump initially praised China, then excoriated Beijing after it made unsubstantiated claims that the virus originated in the United States. Now, Trump is back to offering niceties. The diverging messages have…

China has sought to portray itself on English-language social media as the global leader in the fight against COVID-19 rather than as the origin of the novel coronavirus, new research reveals. Through more than 32,000 social media posts from verified government accounts, China has bulled its way toward a different image…

Analysts at UBS issued a report describing three main investing themes the coronavirus is shaping, and will continue impacting over the next decade: healthcare, technology, and global supply chains. They detailed how the sectors are shifting, and how investors would be prudent to position around them. For instance, with a renewed focus…

Demonstrators use a banner with insults to Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest in BrasiliaHONG KONG : The world is reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, and few have been harder hit than the image of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman Xi Jinping. Such is the battering that…

Xi Jinping Coronavirus ChinaREUTERS/Aly SongUK government officials say there'll be "reckoning" for China over its handling of the coronavirus.Boris Johnson's government is reportedly furious with the Chinese state.It has accused of China of spreading disinformation and lying about the number of cases it has.Scientists have reportedly warned Johnson that China…

LONDON -- Deaths surged in Italy and Spain on Friday, troubling new outbreak sites bubbled in the United States, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major country to test positive for the coronavirus that has sickened more than a half-million people worldwide. Italy recorded…

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed over 27,300 people around the world. Globally there are more than 595,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and some top aides have repeatedly excoriated China over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a stance that even some in his administration worry could bring a dangerous backlash from Beijing. While Trump himself softened his tone after a week of blaming what…

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As the coronavirus has spread around the world, people have looked to data — case counts, death tolls, tallies of people tested — to help predict the outbreak's trajectory, plan responses, and make policy decisions.Because China was initially secretive during the SARS outbreak and censored some whistleblowers and citizen journalists as…