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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that China is facilitating the donation of 1,000 ventilators to the hard-hit state, with the shipment slated to arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport later today. China in recent weeks seems to be using the coronavirus pandemic to position itself as a global response leader while the perception …

Today’s initial unemployment insurance claim figures show a massive 9.9 million people have enrolled onto the program in just two weeks (6 percent of the civilian labor force). Faced with obvious mounting economic pain, politicians will be under pressure to go further in delivering economic support. Worryingly, they appear to be losing sight of the …

With transparency and diligence the Taiwanese government has avoided many problems. s the Austrian school of economics demonstrates in the calculation theory of socialism, no central planning body has the capacity to organize society based on coercive mandates. The main reason is that the central planner is unable to obtain all the necessary information to …

Drug known for treating malaria used by U.S. doctors mostly for high-risk COVID-19 patients An international poll of more than 6,000 doctors released Thursday found that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment for the novel coronavirus. The survey conducted by Sermo, a global health care polling company, of 6,227 physicians in …

The companies that own our major networks all do business in China. And that’s just the beginning. One unfortunate casualty of media consolidation could be the objectivity of news at a time of rising tensions with China. According to Gallup, public approval of the media’s response to the coronavirus pandemic is the lowest out of …

China has been appointed to a panel on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, where it will help vet candidates for important posts — despite its decades-long record of systematic human rights abuse that the U.S. has said fueled the coronavirus pandemic. Jiang Duan, minister at the Chinese Mission in Geneva, was appointed to the U.N. …

In this time of crisis, many exclaim how impressed they are by the “swift and decisive” actions by the Chinese regime. Instead of recognizing the abhorrent disrespect for human life, the Chinese response is put forth as an exemplar for combatting a pandemic. These hailers conveniently forget the many weeks of silencing and censorship that preceded …

Saudi Arabia halted entry and exit into Jeddah governorate on Sunday while hundreds of German tourists were repatriated from the United Arab Emirates as the coronavirus continued to spread in the region. The Gulf Arab region has taken drastic measures to try to combat the disease. Oman, where a suspension of international passenger flights went …

New York City, New Orleans and other major cities expect to run out of ventilators and other medical supplies within days as the United States grapples with the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. New York City will need hundreds more ventilators in a few days and more masks, gowns and other supplies …

Government officials in Ecuador began the process of finding a location to build a mass gravesite to bury the rising number of casualties from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Ecuador’s Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner told the local news outlet Ecuavisa that he spoke with local mayors, particularly the mayor of Guayaquil, about building the gravesite. Once …