SPECIAL REPORT: Inside China’s COVID Cold War with the West

Western allies have condemned China for using the smokescreen of the COVID-19 pandemic to impose a new security law in Hong Kong which violates its international commitments and threatens the “bastion of freedom“. The dire warnings came from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada as tensions between the embattled Chinese Communist Party and the west reached rock bottom. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says American politicians are taking China-US relations “hostage” and “pushing our