The United States has become the first country to report more than 10,000 new cases of novel coronavirus infection for two days in a row, with its confirmed cases topping at least 55,000 as of Tuesday. That means the US ranks third worldwide in cases behind China and Italy, prompting increasing concern that it has potential to become the next epicenter of the pandemic.
The US-DPRK relations have improved last year, as Kim Jong-un and Trump held their first meeting in Singapore in June, reaching some consensus regarding the decades' hostility between the two nations and the Korean Peninsula's denuclearization.
The US manufacturing purchasing managers index dropped to 49.1 in August, the fifth straight monthly decline, which capped a 35-month expansion cycle and was the lowest since January 2016, according to a report released by the Institute for Supply Management on Tuesday.
The US tourism industry may suffer due to escalating trade tensions between the United States and China, industry experts said.
The US government, unlike those in Europe and many Asian nations, has been criticized for doing a poor job in helping people adversely affected in the globalization process.
The US secretary of defense suggested on Monday that the United States military would not strike Iranian cultural sites, a threat made by President Donald Trump over the weekend, as the United Nations' cultural agency noted that both countries have ratified treaties protecting such places.
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The US Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Wednesday that calls on Trump to gain congressional approval before deciding to impose tariffs for national security. The move — which was not binding upon Trump — came as trade groups continued to oppose his new round of hefty duties against China.
The US remains the top destination for all international students. More than 363,341 Chinese students enrolled into US universities and colleges in the academic year 2017-18, accounting for one-third of the total 1.09 million international students in the country, according to the Open Doors 2018 report on education and culture from the US embassy in Beijing.
The United States was caught between allies at home and abroad and the reality of global economics as it reinstated sanctions on Iran, forced to carve out exemptions for some economies and back off on measures that could have been even more punishing for Teheran.
The US Senator Marco Rubio's legislative proposal to prevent Huawei from seeking patent fees in US courts is an outrageous disrespect to intellectual property and severely infringes on the Chinese company's legitimate rights, analysts said.