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Ridgewood NJ, Panda diplomacy is back in action! Two 3-year-old giant pandas have officially started their journey from China to the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, where they will reside for the next decade.
Continue reading Panda Diplomacy Resumes: Two New Giant Pandas Arrive at Smithsonian National Zoo
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New York NY, in a historic verdict, a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts related to falsifying business records in the hush-money trial against him. This decision marks Trump as the first former US president to be convicted of a crime.
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WASHINGTON DC, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, called for the arrest and prosecution of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday. This demand followed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) admission to Congress that it had funded risky “gain-of-function” research in Wuhan, China, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
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Ridgewood NJ, recent reports confirming that the COVID-19 virus probably came from a Chinese lab don’t surprise most voters, who suspect U.S. officials may have been involved in a cover-up.
Continue reading COVID-19 Cover-Up? 67% Not Surprised by Lab Leak Confirmation
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Ridgewood NJ, yet another victim of COVID lockdowns, China . The “zero Covid” scheme decapitated its economy . The nation’s GDP increased by 3.0% in 2022 a far cry from the official target of 5.5%, according to the World Bank.
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Beijing , China has followed the US example and suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Ridgewood NJ, Apple (AAPL) shares are declining on indications the COVID-19 unrest in China will limit production of iPhones . Protests in Chinese manufacturing hubs such as Zhengzhou are creating headaches for Apple executives and President Xi’s lieutenants who are becoming decreasingly concerned over the implosion of the Chinese economy .
Continue reading Unrest Rocks Cities Across China as COVID Lock-down Protests Grow
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Ridgewood NJ, a recently published report details Apple CEO Tim Cook’s efforts to establish strong relationships between Apple and the Chinese government. Cook repeatedly visited China in the mid-2010s, signing a five-year $275 billion deal in 2016 to mitigate regulatory action by the Chinese government. The deal involved Apple helping develop technology in the country and also investing billions of dollars into building new retail stores, research and development centers, and renewable energy projects. Cook’s work is likely the reason the company has been so successful in China.
PRC Prosecutor Allegedly Traveled to the United States, Directed Stalking of U.S. Residents, and Obstructed Criminal Investigation
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Mahwah NJ, A federal grand jury in New York filed an indictment today charging nine defendants with acting and conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) without prior notification to the Attorney General, and engaging and conspiring to engage in interstate and international stalking. Two of the nine defendants are also charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
the old expression, “even a broken clock is right twice a day “,but no so for Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Washington DC, as the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci became a prominent face of the nation’s response to the pandemic, appearing at White House COVID-19 briefings and doing a slew of interviews.
Continue reading Fauci emails: Unlike a Broken Clock ,Some People Can be Wrong All the Time
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China recently launched a component of its new space station, sending a piece of rocket debris hurtling back to Earth in a completely uncontrolled landing.
Continue reading Chinese Space Junk Making an “Unpredictably” Re-entry
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Ridgewood NJ, Microsoft was made aware of initial attacks exploiting 4 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server in early January, two months before issuing patches, according to a new report Monday by security journalist Brian Krebs.
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Washington DC, according to the NJOHSP as distribution of COVID-19 vaccines begins in the United Kingdom and United States, China continues to shift blame for concealing the virus’ severity by disseminating new falsehoods about its origins and misrepresenting scientific and medical experts. These attempts to discredit verified facts can be replicated to target the reliability of vaccines approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Such efforts could dissuade segments of the population from receiving inoculations, increasing infections and mortality rates in the United States.
Continue reading NJOHSP : China Committed To Spreading COVID-19 Disinformation
The video app Tiktok may remain now nevertheless on the US market. The future of the video app Tiktok in the US seems to be secured after President Donald Trump approved a deal between the Chinese owner Bytedance and US companies. Tiktok’s global business will be transferred to a new company based in the US, “probably in Texas,” Trump said. The Department of Commerce postponed the download stop for the App in the USA, which should take effect for users starting Monday, by one week. 4besnews Trump had called Tiktok a security risk, because the App belongs to the Chinese Bytedance company. In his view, Chinese authorities could have used the app to obtain data from Americans. Following this reasoning, he laid the foundation for the removal of the app in the USA with two orders. According to the deal that has now been finalized, the software company Oracle is to process all data of US users and take care of the corresponding technical systems. F9news In addition it became so far only officially admits that Oracle before an initial public offer of Tiktok Global is to take over a portion of 12,5 per cent of the company and the supermarket giant Walmart will hold 7,5 per cent.
Continue reading Dispute between the USA and China: TikTok Sale Deal
