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The summer palace in Beijing, China
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.
As thousands die in the eastern DRC, a global health emergency is being starved of funds, says S KRISHNASWAMY
China’s investment and commitment to scientific research is already paying off, pushing the country to the centre stage of global technological advance, writes S Krishnaswamy
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