Chinese honour guards are seen near the portrait of Mao Zedong during a ceremony held at the Monument to the People's Heroes on Tiananmen Square in Beijing
CHINA is leading calls on behalf of 26 nations for the US and its allies to immediately lift punitive sanctions on other countries in order to help defeat coronavirus.
Beijing’s UN ambassador Zhang Jun said “unilateral coercive measures” violate the UN Charter, multilateralism and undermine the right to health.
The United States has intensified sanctions against Venezuela and Iran since the pandemic started and tightened its illegal blockade of Cuba.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
