Tag: China

Beltway Confidential

Our overcentralized food supply chain is breaking down

Levi Russell · May 9, 2020 10:00 am

Poultry seller wearing face mask preparing at wet market in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, April 24, 2020. Malaysia, along with neighboring Singapore and Brunei, has banned popular Ramadan bazaars where food, drinks and clothing are sold in congested open-air markets or road-side stalls. The bazaars are a source of key income for many small traders, some who have shifted their businesses online.

WHO says it does not recommend live animal markets be closed across the globe

Zach Halaschak · May 8, 2020 9:32 pm

In this April 4, 2019, file photo, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo., listens to witnesses during the Committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

‘Enabled the rise of China’: Josh Hawley calls for withdrawing US from World Trade Organization

Mica Soellner · May 8, 2020 8:32 pm

Cindy Steinberg, National Director of Policy and Advocacy for U.S. Pain Foundation, recovering from back pain after a workplace accident, testifies on "Managing Pain During the Opioid Crisis" before a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in Washington.

Bipartisan group of lawmakers press Trump to issue executive order moving drug manufacturing out of China

Zach Halaschak · May 8, 2020 5:59 pm

A sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Beltway Confidential

Intelligence on Wuhan lab shows there’s a cover-up, but it doesn’t show why

Tom Rogan · May 8, 2020 5:47 pm

House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

GOP critic of China discloses family investment in Chinese company

Mica Soellner · May 8, 2020 4:45 pm

China adopts Russian dezinformatsiya tactics to undermine US

Joel Gehrke · May 8, 2020 11:00 am

Trump moves to block vast federal retirement fund from investing in China as anger mounts

Rob Crilly · May 8, 2020 4:00 am

Magazine - Features

China’s war on whistleblowers

Elisha Maldonado · May 8, 2020 3:00 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Decoding Mark Esper

Jamie McIntyre · May 8, 2020 3:00 am

‘Testing off the charts’: Trump strategy to make China a campaign issue backed by polling

David M. Drucker · May 8, 2020 1:00 am

President Donald Trump listens during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Washington.

Trump campaign readies battery of Biden attack ads

Katherine Doyle · May 7, 2020 7:51 pm