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New order in US-China relations

Joseph Bosco

Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai (崔天凱) has said that the two countries need to look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic controversy and undertake “a serious rethinking of the very foundations of this important relationship.”

The next day, US President Donald Trump reportedly said: “I’m getting tired of China.”

Virus Outbreak: US pushing to rip global supply chains from China

Taipei Times

US President Donald Trump walks from the Marine One helicopter to the White House in Washington on Sunday after returning from Camp David, Maryland.
Photo: AFP

US President Donald Trump’s administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to officials familiar with US planning.

Oslo court rules against Taiwanese in nationality suit

Taipei Times

A group of Taiwanese living in Norway lost a lawsuit filed last year against the Norwegian government, accusing it of improperly changing their nationality from “Taiwanese” to “Chinese” on their residency permits.

A district court in Oslo on Tuesday last week ruled that the Norwegian government abides by the “one China” policy and so does not diplomatically recognize Taiwan.

Politicians, leave virus prevention to experts

Jeremy Wang 王英明

Starting from March and especially during the past few days, many experts have been saying that full-scale screening for COVID-19 is not necessary. Nonetheless, the Kaohsiung City Government on Thursday last week decided that about 4,000 doctors and nurses in Kaohsiung should be tested for the virus.

Thankfully, following some protests, the city government agreed to make the tests voluntary.

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