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DHARAMSALA, 16 April: Wagga Wagga, a city in New South Wales, Australia has severed its sister-city ties with a Chinese city as it held the “regime responsible” for the ”death and destruction’’ caused by the pandemic.

DHARAMSALA, 15 April: The US President Donald Trump has announced that the US is freezing payments to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its failure in handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

DHARAMSALA, 9 April: An outspoken and influential critic of the Chinese Communist party who labelled Xi Jinping a “clown” over his handling of the coronavirus epidemic has been placed under investigation by China.

DHARAMSALA, 8 April: The US President Donald Trump has stated that the World Health Organization(WHO) is biased toward China and threatened to stop funding it.

DHARAMSALA, 7 April: China is allegedly selling Italy masks and coronavirus supplies that the latter had donated to them just weeks earlier, media reports said citing a source from the White House.

DHARAMSALA, 30 March: His Holiness the Dalai Lama has offered “special gratitude” to the Coronavirus frontline workers and stated that “their service is indeed compassion in action,” in his special message on Coronavirus Pandemic.

DHARAMSALA, 5 March: Tibet has been ranked, yet again, the second least free region in the world for political rights and civil liberties by the US-based NGO Freedom House.

DHARAMSALA, 28 Feb: The Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama yet again topped the Watkins Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People – spiritual teachers, activists, authors and thinkers that change the world.

DHARAMSALA, 20 Feb: China has strongly objected to India’s Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, in the extreme north east of India.

DHARAMSALA, 19 Feb:  A US judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by Chinese tech giant Huawei challenging the constitutionality of a law that banned US federal agencies from buying its products.