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Lee Jeong-ho
Reporter, China
Lee Jeong-ho is a former China desk reporter. He covered China's diplomacy, as well as East Asian security and defence stories. Before joining the Post he was with the South Korean Air Force and News1 Korea. He has a bachelor's degree in media and communications and Chinese studies from Sydney University and a master's of international studies in Chinese area studies from Seoul National University.
Favipiravir emerges as a potential drug to treat Covid-19 patients but worries over risks to fetus remain.
EU Chamber of Commerce says denying entry to foreign nationals will have enormous impact on families and businesses in the country.
More than 43,000 people in China had tested positive without immediate symptoms by the end of February and were quarantined.
President Xi Jinping tells Donald Trump that Beijing has ‘declared a people’s war’ to defeat the deadly contagion.
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Factories in Pyongyang are churning out tens of thousands of masks each day but state media does not confirm the presence of virus in North Korea.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman says she was ‘deeply touched’ by the country’s sympathy, understanding and donations.
These are the similarities and differences between the latest health emergency and its predecessor, Sars, which affected more than 8,000 people in 37 countries.
Government estimates that 100,000 pieces of gear are needed every day in virus epicentre Hubei province alone, but Chinese suppliers can only meet a third of that.
Some 59 per cent of experts polled say relations will worsen this year, according to Mercator Institute for China Studies.
Observers say epidemic could affect how the country is seen abroad, and it may disrupt upcoming summits with European leaders in Beijing.
World Health Organisation’s director general to gather information and discuss control measures as death toll jumps sharply.
Official from Henan says anyone trying to enter from Hubei, the province at the heart of the epidemic, will be turned back.
Japan, US, France and Russia keen to get their citizens home as death toll continues to rise.
US, France and Russia prepare to move citizens out of Wuhan, epicentre of the virus outbreak.
Teams from Shanghai, Guangdong – including experts who helped tackle Sars – arrive in Wuhan to lend their support.
US ‘greatly appreciates [China’s] efforts and transparency’, president says in a tweet, as woman in her 60s becomes America’s second confirmed case.
Pyongyang and Washington both seem likely to retreat to hardened positions more in line with 2017 as talks falter, analysts say, while China should grow into a larger role, with North Korea increasingly reliant on it as an economic ally.
Formal signing of phase one agreement being arranged, US President says in tweet announcing phone call between leaders.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Beijing can censor team’s soccer games but cannot hide rights violations.
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper says Beijing’s ‘brazen’ activities in the South China Sea ‘assert illegitimate maritime claims’ and ‘threaten its neighbours' sovereignty’.
‘They want it, and so do we!’ the US president says in his Twitter post, sending the S&P 500 surging to a record high. The tweet comes with 15 per cent tariffs on US$156 billion of Chinese imports slated to go into effect on Sunday.
Susan Thornton, former Trump administration expert on Asia, discusses her recent conversations with Chinese: ‘It seemed very much that the trade-negotiation moment may have passed.’
Global Times publishes screenshots of a purported confession by William Wang Liqiang during a 2016 fraud trial.
But President Donald Trump and his State Department remained silent on the pro-democracy candidates’ lopsided victory on Sunday.
Pact’s end would have aided Beijing by weakening Seoul-Tokyo cooperation and the US-led alliance with South Korea and Japan, says a former US Forces Korea commander.
To curb in the growing influence of China and Russia, Washington needs its strategically located old friends, analysts note.
Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Jim Risch start a ‘hotline’ to let Senate speed up approval of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, but passage was not clinched by end of business on Thursday
EU spokeswoman says such an investigation is ‘a critical element in de-escalation efforts’, as six months of clashes seem to reach a new level of confrontation.
After talks collapsed in June, Kim Jong-un fell back on his signature tactic: test-firing ballistic missiles. Washington and Seoul have also moved toward their traditional stance on Pyongyang and will resume joint air defence exercises next month.
Chinese commerce ministry cites ‘consensus on principles’ after Vice-Premier Liu He speaks with USTR’s Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, while US side cites ‘progress in a variety of areas’.
