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CHINA called on the United States to “stop poisoning international co-operation on virus tracing” yesterday, after released findings from a 90-day US probe proved a damp squib.
Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said origin-tracing was a complex scientific matter but the US had been “obsessed” with political manipulation.
The US report, which President Joe Biden ordered spooks to produce after citing doubts about the World Health Organisation (WHO’s) investigation into the coronavirus’s origins, says that intelligence agencies are divided.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
200 years since the first dinosaur was described and 25 after its record-breaking predecessor, the BBC has brought back Walking with Dinosaurs. BEN CHACKO assesses what works and what doesn’t