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Authorities in China have declined a request from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for data on early Covid-19 cases. This, says WHO, would assist them in finding out how the virus began to spread within China. While the Chinese have analysed the data and provided ‘extensive summaries’, investigators forming part of a WHO team were not allowed to view the raw data pertaining to those studies. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, the team said this would allow them to ‘conduct their own analysis’. Jeremy Page and Drew Hinshaw report that the country’s ‘National Health Commission and foreign ministry’ have not responded to requests for commentary. – Jarryd Neves
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Jan 16, 2021 08:40 AM EST
Russia announces it will abandon the Open Skies treaty when the U.S. left the Nuclear agreement earlier. Without a nuclear deal, both will not put a cap on their nuclear arsenal, with China free to increase its number of warheads.
Nuclear deals are vital to control the number of nuclear warheads possessed by the superpowers. It essentially determines the proliferation of deadly arms. During the cold war, it kept a status quo between the former Soviet Union and the United States.
On Friday, Russian declared that it would back out from a treaty allowing either nation to do overflights to surveil military bases. Last year the U.S. exited from it. No agreement was reached in the final days of the Trump administration, reported The Epoch Times.