February 25, 1991
excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times"
excerpt from "The Sydney Morning Herald" (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
February 25, 2021
excerpt from "The Washington Post" (website)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/china-denies-subjecting-us-diplomats-to-covid-19-anal-tests/2021/02/25/bad789f0-774d-11eb-9489-8f7dacd51e75_story.html
excerpts from the "South China Morning Post" (scmp.com)
Coronavirus: Beijing denies making US diplomats take anal swab tests
- Foreign ministry issues statement in response to US media reports claiming State Department staff were required to take such tests
- Anal swabs can be more effective in testing for Covid-19 but are considered undignified by most people
- President says 850 million people have been lifted out of destitution in an ‘unprecedented accomplishment’
- Beijing’s success in fighting poverty has been pegged to the country’s ambitious economic reform
Chas Freeman, interpreter for Richard Nixon during his trip to China in 1972, says domestic renewal is key if the US is to successfully compete.
Katherine Tai says it is ‘critically important’ to ‘have a strategic and coherent plan for holding China accountable to its promises’, while acknowledging Beijing as ‘an outsized player whose cooperation we’ll also need to address certain global challenges’.
Advanced H-6J among at least 10 planes involved in drills which followed February dual carrier operation in disputed waterway.
