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The Chinese Communist Party has revised its reported death count in Wuhan by exactly 50 percent, an attempt to improve the “credibility of the government” as residents and experts have warned the actual count is far higher that what’s been previously reported. In an interview Friday with the Xinhua state news agency, officials pointed to …

China’s economy contracted for the first time in decades as the coronavirus outbreak ravaged the country and economic activity ground to a halt. Gross domestic product was down 6.8 percent from the same time during the previous year, according to data released Friday by China’s National Bureau of Statistics. The contraction was slightly more exaggerated than …

Less than 50 percent of 25 large U.S. companies surveyed said that decoupling from China would be “impossible,” a 22 point reduction from a similar survey conducted last October, amid growing concerns over reliance on Chinese manufacturing following the coronavirus pandemic. The American Chamber of Commerce in China and the American Chamber of Commerce in …

American companies have seen their shipments of coronavirus medical equipment, such as face masks and test kits, stranded in China after the country implemented new export restrictions this month. The shipments of personal protective equipment and other medical equipment currently remain in warehouses in China, unable to obtain the new clearances required to be shipped …

People cross a street during evening rush hour in Beijing’s Central Business District as the spread of coronavirus continues in China, April 15, 2020. U.S. intelligence has “increasing confidence” that the novel Wuhan coronavirus outbreak began in a lab that was researching bat-coronaviruses, contrary to China’s claim that the pandemic emerged from a Wuhan wet …

Senator Chris Murphy speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 13, 2018. Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) said Tuesday that the blame for coronavirus “is not because of anything that China did” and instead rests squarely with President Trump. Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Murphy laid out the case that Trump “didn’t take this …

Former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden depart after a pre-inauguration church service in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2009. Business records show that Hunter Biden is still listed as a board member of Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners, despite his lawyer saying in November that Biden had resigned from the position. …

A major liberal advocacy group run by the founder of Media Matters received $100,000 worth of stock shares in Chinese tech firm Baidu, which runs China’s government-censored search engine, from an anonymous donor, according to its latest tax filings. The records, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon, show that American Bridge, which is run …

A man passes by a billboard depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping as the spread of the coronavirus continues in Belgrade, Serbia, April 1, 2020. Documents reveal that Chinese President Xi Jinping waited six days to publicly warn about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, after his top officials determined that the situation was “likely to develop into …

Security personell wear facemasks at a checkpoint at the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge as the country is hit by an outbreak of coronavirus in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China, February 4, 2020. China continues to provide incomplete information to rest of the world about the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, even as countries …