China appears poised to lead climate initiatives but will struggle to fill vacuum in public health as US leaves frameworks, analysts say.
Prof Salim Abdool Karim refutes Trump's unfounded reasons for withdrawing the US from the WHO, citing a lack of evidence and political motivations.
China says it will continue to support the World Health Organisation (WHO), amid plans by the United States to pull out from the health body.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to begin withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that some scientists and faith
Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic factor, another driving force behind the exodus might be their smaller pay packages.
U.S. President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to assess China's performance under the Phase 1 trade deal that he signed with Beijing in 2020 during his first term at the White House.
Violent protests have erupted in China after the death of a teenage boy sparked accusations of a cover-up by authorities, videos from the northwestern region of Shaanxi have shown.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed an estimated 7.1 million people worldwide, causing global life expectancy to decline by 1.6 years between 2019 and 2021. It disrupted economies, destroyed livelihoods, and strained social cohesion in many countries.
The HMPV outbreak is currently overwhelming hospitals in China but Beijing says respiratory infections are "less severe" and "smaller in scale" compared to last year
Trump has long been critical of the WHO and sought to pull out the US from the UN body during his first term Presidency, but his successor Joe Biden reversed Trump's decision.
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ...
In 2020, China imported $135 billion of U.S. goods, and a year later, it bought $178 billion, according to data from Chinese customs. The deal included stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights.