The United States has moved to make it essentially impossible for members of any foreign communist party to obtain permanent residence in America.
 
In a policy alert issued on Friday, Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) said: “In general, unless otherwise exempt, any intending immigrant who is a member or affiliate of the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party … domestic or foreign, is inadmissible to the United States.”
 
The move was seen as a clear shot at China and its communist leadership.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, there were 2.5 million Chinese immigrants in the United States in 2018, or about 5.5 percent of its total foreign-born population. In 2018, China accounted for 67,000 of the 1.1 million people granted permanent residency in the U.S., ranking it third in the nation of origin table after Mexico and Cuba.
 
The USCIS said the policy amendment was “part of a broader set of laws passed by Congress to address threats to the safety and security of the United States.”

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab suggested Britain may boycott the Olympics for the first time, over China's treatment of the Uighur Muslims, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
 
Raab, at a foreign affairs select committee, said it was "clear that there is evidence of serious and egregious human rights violations," the newspaper reported here
 
"I would say let's gather the evidence, work with our international partners and consider in the round what further action we need to take," he told the MPs, according to the report. (Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru Editing by Chris Reese

Survey finds negative views of China soar among advanced economies
Unfavorable views toward China have soared in the past year in the United States and many other advanced economies, a survey of 14 countries conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center showed on Tuesday.

The survey, conducted from June 10 to Aug. 3, found that a majority in each of the countries polled had an unfavorable opinion of China. In all, 14,276 adults were polled by telephone. here
 
In Australia, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States, South Korea, Spain and Canada, negative views reached their highest points since Pew began polling on the topic more than a decade ago.
 
The findings come against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, which began in China, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid for re-election on Nov. 3, a campaign in which China has been a major foreign policy issue.
 
The Pew report said that across the nations surveyed, a median of 61 percent of respondents said China had done a bad job dealing with the outbreak, while 37 percent believed it had done a good job.

The same applied to people’s confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping, with a median of 78 percent across the 14 countries saying they had “not too much or no confidence in Xi to do the right thing regarding world affairs.”
 
Even among those who rated China’s coronavirus outbreak response positively, no more than four in 10 said they trusted Xi, Pew said.

The countries surveyed here were Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

Woin la Chine devrait me donner des masques gratuitement et maintenant le monde la déteste, c'est bien fait

“When it’s just one result, you always want more data, more studies, more samples to confirm it and rule out a laboratory error or a methodological problem,”

Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona

UK to exclude Chinese students from sensitive subjects
 
eme (ATAS), postgraduate applicants from abroad already require security vetting to study subjects where their knowledge could be used in weapons programmes, according to a government website.
 
The Times report said the list of subjects would be expanded to include areas related to cyber-security and aircraft, among others.
 
Asked to comment on the report, the Foreign Office said the government had implemented a recent expansion of ATAS to cover military technology, to ensure Britain’s safeguards were keeping up with ever-changing global threats.
 
“As an open country, we welcome foreign students, including from China, where they add to the academic richness of our world-leading universities,” a spokeswoman said in a statement.
 
“But we will not accept collaborations which compromise our national security and ATAS is one of the robust procedures we have in place to protect national security and counter foreign interference.”
 
According to the Times, the measures were expected to block hundreds of Chinese students from entering Britain, while visas for those already enrolled would be revoked if they were deemed to pose a risk.
 
According to the ATAS website, applicants from countries belonging to the European Economic Area and from Switzerland are exempt from the scheme, meaning they do not require vetting to study the affected subjects.

The WHO press office, contacted by The Associated Press after the news conference, did not provide details of the terms of reference, say whether they would be made public, or indicate how big the international team would be or when it could be sent to China.

It said team members had “extensive discussions” with their Chinese counterparts during the three-week visit, and had discussions by video with virologists and other scientists in Wuhan — including the Wuhan Institute of Virology. U.S. President Donald Trump in April claimed to have seen evidence to support the theory that the lab was the origin of the virus.