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Irene and Francis Lau, along with their three-year-old son Freddie, have gone to Beijing, China to visit family for Chinese New Year. They haven't been outside for the last three days as most places are closed. Now, they are awaiting their flight back to the UK but have been told that British Airways flights ‘could be cancelled up two hours before they fly’. Irene is twenty-one weeks’ pregnant and worries she could get sick. On arrival back in London, they have made plans to self-quarantine and work from home.
Chinese authorities told the BBC that the journalist was detained to protect him from getting Covid.
As we already know, the virus does not care about international borders.
Western leaders have been keen to get back on cordial terms with President Xi Jinping.
"There remain significant areas of co-operation between our two nations — but we need to accept that we will soon compete with China", says the Labour frontbencher.
A Labour MP said he was showing his "ignorance".
“This combines the most extreme intensity with the most extreme length with an incredibly huge area all at the same time,” the climatologist told New Scientist.
Concerns were raised that app user data could be passed on to Beijing.
HuffPost explains why Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is straining relations between the White House and the Chinese government.
The latest salvos come just hours before Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss square up in a crunch TV debate.