More than half a million Chinese people have signed a joint letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO) calling for it to investigate the sudden closure of a secretive laboratory in the United States.
They are concerned that the Fort Detrick lab in Maryland closed without coming under international scrutiny.
It comes at a time when politicians and media organisations are smearing China as the source of coronavirus, with US President Joe Biden trying to resurrect the discredited “lab leak theory.”
JENNY CLEGG looks at the key points that defined the China-US relationship, for now
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE


