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· The Cold Political Calculation Behind Donald Trump’s WHO Funding Suspension
· The Coronavirus Crisis Will Change the World of Commerce
· Trump Aide Peter Navarro Warned of a Deadly Pandemic Emerging from China—in 2006
· As the Coronavirus Spreads, Conspiracy Theories Are Going Viral Too
· Viktor Orban Can’t Eradicate the Coronavirus by Decree
· Did the Coronavirus Escape from a Chinese Lab? Here’s What the Pentagon Says
· Pentagon Bristles at Anti-American Rhetoric in Foreign Coronavirus Reports
· How China Deceived the WHO
· How the World Health Organization’s Failure to Challenge China over Coronavirus Cost Us Dearly
· How the Hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Go Horribly Wrong
· China’s Initial Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan Spread Twice as Fast as We Thought, New Study Suggests
· Why We Can’t Trust Positive COVID Test Counts to Track the Pandemic in NYC
The Cold Political Calculation Behind Donald Trump’s WHO Funding Suspension(Ben Riley-Smith, The Telegraph)
The international body provides US president with a handy scapegoat as election approaches
The Coronavirus Crisis Will Change the World of Commerce (Economist)
Firms that make it through will face a new business climate
Trump Aide Peter Navarro Warned of a Deadly Pandemic Emerging from China—in 2006 (William Bredderman, Daily Beast)
The president has said no one could have predicted this from happening. Except his aide did. Years ago.
As the Coronavirus Spreads, Conspiracy Theories Are Going Viral Too (Elise Thomas, Foreign Policy)
Dubious and unfounded claims on the internet intended for domestic consumption are reaching far beyond their target audiences, allowing governments to spread disinformation cheaply and easily.
Viktor Orban Can’t Eradicate the Coronavirus by Decree (Garvan Walshe, Foreign Policy)
Hungary’s authoritarian leader has granted himself dictatorial powers, but his neglect of the country’s health system and his powerlessness in the face of a depreciating currency will come back to haunt him.
Did the Coronavirus Escape from a Chinese Lab? Here’s What the Pentagon Says (Katie Bo Williams, Defense One)
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Tuesday said that the U.S. intelligence community has looked “hard” into rumors that the coronavirus had its origins in a Chinese biolab, not an open-air market as is widely believed.
“There’s a lot of rumor and speculation in a wide variety of media, blog sites, etc.,” Milley said. “It should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that, and we have had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that.”
“At this point it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we do not know for sure,” Milley said.
Pentagon Bristles at Anti-American Rhetoric in Foreign Coronavirus Reports (Jeff Stone, Cyberscoop)
U.S. military officials are criticizing foreign governments for spreading disinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic. In the latest example of the Pentagon trying to mitigate foreign propaganda, U.S. officials admonished the governments of Russia, China and Iran for leveraging the international COVID-19 outbreak to summon anti-American sentiment. U.S. officials, in a statement Monday on a government website, accused state-funded media agencies, like Russia’s Sputnik News, of creating mistrust in credible information in order to create confusion.
