ABEL GONZALEZ ALAYÓN April 3, 2020
Kathmandu. Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said this Thursday the military action announced by the U.S. government, involving the deployment of warships near Venezuela and special troop movements, is a serious threat to peace for all in the region. Rodriguez Parrilla described the alleged fight against drug...more
Kathmandu. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, thanked this Wednesday the many voices that in the United States and from different parts of the world are demanding, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on his country by...more
Kathmandu. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz led the daily meeting at the Revolution Palace on Wednesday afternoon, which reviewed in detail the situation with COVID-19 in Cuba, where 212 cases have been confirmed, including six deaths. Speaking at the meeting, the head...more
Some Amazon workers on Monday organized a strike at a facility in Staten Island, New York, demanding better protection from the company after a worker there tested positive for COVID-19. What the US logistics giant is facing may be just the tip of the iceberg for American businesses...more
While the global health crisis may still have a long way to run, a number of things are already clear. First, viruses are quintessentially transnational and don't care who they infect or what nationality they may be. Second, China seems to have done an impressive job of halting...more
Beijing. According to a recent survey from polling company Rasmussen Reports, 42 percent of US voters think China should cover some of the financial expenses incurred by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Meanwhile, 36 percent disagreed, while another 22 percent said they were undecided. Does the United States have...more
The New York-based Daily Beast newspaper reported Saturday that the White House is "launching a communications plan across multiple federal agencies," asking officials to stick closely to talking points which focus on accusing China of "creating a global pandemic." The strong ideological bias of some US politicians and...more
A few days after US President Donald Trump first dropped his verbal bomb by using the term "Chinese virus" to refer to the novel coronavirus, he said on Tuesday that he would stop associating the virus with China. While he said he did not regret using the term,...more
Apparent reluctance among US officials to remove tariffs on China to help vast US businesses and consumers cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic on concerns that such a move would benefit China more is misguided, and will undoubtedly cripple US firms at such a difficult...more
I arrived in Washington DC as a correspondent for a Chinese media outlet at the beginning of 2018. I had many expectations of the city before I arrived. There are many think tanks here and you could talk with important figures and hear their thoughts on latest international...more
Beijing. China announced early Wednesday that it would take countermeasures against restrictive measures on Chinese media agencies in the United States, effective immediately. As a standard and common practice in the diplomacy domain, the move is a decisive response to the Trump administration's unwarranted suppression and discriminatory practices...more
As the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe with experts warning the worst is yet to come, the US has been busy. At first, it was busy peddling the unproven theory that the virus was "made in China," and is now engaged in wrestling with Germany to seek...more
With the COVID-19 outbreak in full swing in the US, President Donald Trump had the temerity to call it "the Chinese Virus" on Twitter on Tuesday. Labeling a virus to reference to a country, region or people contradicts long-held principles of the World Health Organization (WHO). What prompted...more
US President Donald Trump using the term "Chinese Virus" to refer to the COVID-19 in his tweet is an act of inability and irresponsibility, as he wants to make Americans to blame China and cover his own administration's terrible response to the predictable outbreak and his failure to...more
Persistent equity sell-offs in the US triggered by panic over the coronavirus outbreak has laid bare deep-seated problems in the US economy and the extremely polarized, volatile political climate in the country, and brought the world's largest economy to the edge of an economic and political crisis with...more