Tag: World Health Organization

Pandemic May Have Been Caused by Bioweapon Research Accident in China: Former State Department Investigator

The virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic could have been the result of a bioweapon leak in China, according to David Asher, former lead COVID-19 investigator at the U.S. State Department. “This might have been a weapons vector gone awry; not deliberately released, but in development and then somehow leaked,” Asher said on March 12…


China in Focus (March 11): Pandemic Marks One-Year Anniversary

It’s the one-year anniversary of when the World Health Organization labeled the virus outbreak a pandemic. NTD looks back on how Beijing’s response impacted the outbreak’s timeline. The Chinese Communist Party describes its definition of “patriotism.” The meaning in a communist system marks a departure from what the word conveys in the West. NTD looks…


China in Focus (March 11): CCP Pandemic Marks One-Year Anniversary

It’s the one-year anniversary of when the World Health Organization labeled the virus outbreak a pandemic. NTD looks back on how Beijing’s response impacted the outbreak’s timeline. The Chinese Communist Party describes its definition of “patriotism.” The meaning in a communist system marks a departure from what the word conveys in the West. NTD looks…


Senator Urges Biden Administration to Keep Confronting China

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) warned that the United States cannot “backslide” on China under the Biden administration. “China has been aggressive and predatory from a military standpoint, from a diplomatic standpoint, and from an economic standpoint for so many years,” said Hagerty in a recent interview with The Epoch Times’ sister company NTD at the…


Senator Urges Biden Administration to Not to ‘Backslide’ on Confronting China

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) warned that the United States cannot “backslide” on China under the Biden administration. “China has been aggressive and predatory from a military standpoint, from a diplomatic standpoint, and from an economic standpoint for so many years,” said Hagerty in a recent interview with The Epoch Times’ sister company NTD at the…


WHO Probe Under Scrutiny Over Investigators’ Ties to Chinese Regime

International critics are questioning the impartiality of a World Health Organization (WHO) team that recently conducted a fact-finding mission in Wuhan to probe the origins of the CCP virus. The team consisted of 17 Chinese experts and 17 foreign experts from 10 countries. They began their work in the central Chinese city of Wuhan—the epicenter…


Blinken Urges China to Come Clean on Pandemic

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized China for its continued failure to be transparent about COVID-19, in a recent interview with BBC World News. “It requires countries to be transparent; it requires them to share information; it requires them to give access to international experts at the beginning of an outbreak—things that, unfortunately, we haven’t…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Feb. 15)

The Senate acquits former President Donald Trump, so what’s his next plan? Could there be clues in the statement he made on Saturday? A hotel owner in South Dakota laments over the many pipeline workers who left. The workers lost their jobs after the Biden Administration canceled the Keystone Pipeline. And an investigator from the…


Biden’s Policies So Far Benefit Beijing: China Expert

Some of President Joe Biden’s executive orders are misguided, as they will ultimately benefit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China expert Gordon Chang said. “Although he [Biden] talks about extreme competition with China, although he talks about holding China accountable, we have seen in those executive orders, a flood of measures that Beijing just absolutely…


Chinese Critics Decry WHO’s Wuhan Probe as a ‘Farce’

A Chinese dissident has condemned the World Health Organization’s findings on the source of the pandemic as a “farce,” adding that the Chinese regime is likely to leverage them to deflect responsibility for causing the global crisis. According to Yuan Hongbing, a Chinese academic and vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) living in…