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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country’s economy, sources told Reuters, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow. FILE PHOTO: Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the novel coronavirus…

By Ryan Woo and John GeddieBEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China reported on Wednesday its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in two weeks, bolstering a forecast by Beijing's senior medical adviser for the outbreak there to end by April, but World Health Organization officials warned it could still "go in any…

This essay on the Wuhan coronavirus by Xu Zhangrun, translated from the original Chinese and annotated by Geremie R. Barmé on Chinafile.com, is absolutely amazing. I'm grateful it is now available for English-speaking audiences. "rage against this injustice; let your lives burn with a flame of decency." Tsinghua professor Xu…

REUTERS/2016 Leaked emails reveal that Amazon.com is stockpiling products made in China over fears that coronavirus will harm its supply chain — after the company said the outbreak will cause 'no interruptions' to operations. Business Insider reports that Amazon reached out to a number of suppliers last week to quickly…

Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst and a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Follow him on Twitter @WorldAffairsPro. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his; view more opinions on CNN. (CNN)In their botched handling of the tragic death of Li Wenliang, the…

(CNN)On Friday morning, President Trump tweeted about his phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the response to the coronavirus outbreak.Trump praised Xi as "strong, sharp and powerfully focused" on containing the virus, and added that he thinks Xi will be successful, "especially as the weather starts to warm…

Staff members wearing protective masks are seen at the Shanghai railway station in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, February 7, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday after a phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping that…

A Chinese ophthalmologist in Wuhan who tried to warn his colleagues on December 30 about seven patients who had come down with a SARS-like virus but was censored by the Chinese government – and and then detained two days later for "rumor mongering" – has died from the disease. After…

A coronavirus outbreak that started in China has infected more than 20,000 people and killed more than 400. Cases have been recorded in 24 other countries.So far, most patients seem to make full recoveries, but the Chinese Health Commission warns that even those who've recovered could be at risk of…

Even in the midst of its own national disaster — the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus — China managed to embarrass the Trump administration.Last week the UK decided to ignore the Trump administration's warnings and allow Chinese telecom giant Huawei to build out some of its "non-core" 5G systems. The…