Trump administration considering banning Chinese Government officials from entering the US

The Trump administration is considering banning all members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families from traveling to the United States, according to a source within the administration.

According to the New York Times, who spoke to the source, senior administration officials discussing the matter have begun circulating a draft of a possible presidential order, a move that would worsen the already damaged relationship between the US and China.

According to the NY Times, the source speaking on condition of anonymity, said deliberations are at an early stage and the issue has not yet been brought to U.S. President Donald Trump.


According to the New York Times, the ban which will focus on denying visas to tens of millions of Chinese citizens, would be one of Washington's toughest actions against China.

The source said the ban could hit the ruling Communist Party from the highest levels down to its rank-and-file and would be certain to draw retaliation from China.
The ban could also affect business executives, potentially harming U.S. interests in China.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reacting to the reports on Friday, said such action by the United States, if true, would be "pathetic."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday refused to confirm the report but said:
"We're working our way through, under the president's guidance, about how to think about pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party."

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters: "We keep every option on the table with regard to China."

Relations between China and the US are now at the lowest point in decades as both countries clash over China's handling of the Coronavirus outbreak, China's new security law on Hong Kong, China's disputed claims in the South China Sea, and trade disputes.

It was normal, it comes easily to him' - Trump's niece says she heard her uncle use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs

                                   

Mary Trump, the niece of President Trump, has said she heard her uncle use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs so many times while she was growing up.



Mary Trump recently hit the limelight after releasing a blockbuster new book, 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.'



In the book, she makes many allegations about Donald Trump and the Trump family, but most of the allegations have been denied by Trump's family and the White House.



For a while there was speculation that Trump used the n-word behind-the-scenes during the filming of his hit TV show 'The Apprentice,' but the tapes have never surfaced. 



Speaking to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, Mary Trump admitted she heard her uncle use racial slurs:

'Of course I did. And I don't think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today.'

Mary Trump had earlier said in an interview with The Washington Post that her family engaged in bigotry throughout her childhood. 

'Growing up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the n-word or use anti-Semitic expressions,' she told.

She told The Post that she hasn't been surprised by the president's racist language nor policies, including separating children from their parents at the southern border.

'No, the more divisive the better, the cooler,' she said. 

'It comes easily to him and he thinks it's going to score him points with the only people who are continuing to support him,' Mary Trump said. 



She described what her family engaged in as 'a knee-jerk anti-Semitism, a knee-jerk racism.'

'Homophobia was never an issue because nobody ever talked about gay people, well, until my grandmother called Elton John' an anti-gay slur,' she  told The Post.
 

Continuously pressed by Maddow if she had heard the president use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs Mary Trump replied: 'Yes.'



The White House has rejected Mary's allegations, calling her book  'a book of falsehoods', adding: 'The president doesn't use those words.' 



Mary Trump, a lesbian, was secretly engaged to a woman and says she never came out as gay because her grandmother Mary said the prospect of Elton John singing at the funeral of Princess Diana was 'a disgrace' and called him a 'little' six-letter slur. 



She also described President Trump's 2016 campaign as being racist several times in the book.

'He did tap into a certain bigotry and inchoate rage, which he's always been good at doing,' she wrote, pointing to the 1989 New York Times ad the president took out demanding that the Central Park Five - a group of five black suspects who were cleared of assault and rape charges - be executed.   
 

When asked what will happen if her uncle wins a second term, she told the paper, 'I may be in the Caribbean.' 

US attacks Disney, Google, Microsoft and Apple for doing business with China

                               US attacks Disney, Google, Microsoft and Apple for doing business with China

The United States administration has continued it's criticism of China, blasting companies like Disney, Google, Microsoft and Apple, for doing business with China while accusing Hollywood of censoring it's movies to please the Chinese government.



US Attorney General, Bill Barr, speaking  at a speech in Michigan said Tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Disney  were 'all too willing to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party.'



He also accused China's Communist Party of committing 'economic blitzkrieg' and said the Chinese regime was intent on surpassing the U.S.

"China's Communist Party seeks to exploit the openness of our institutions in order to destroy them' 

'They seek to raid the United States'

'I suspect Walt Disney would be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals with the foreign dictatorships of our day' 

Barr said US companies bow to demands of the regime in Beijing to maintain access to the lucrative Chinese market, and noted the US has become overly reliant on face masks, medical gowns and other protective equipment produced in China, designed to curb the spread of  coronavirus.

'The People´s Republic of China is now engaged in an economic blitzkrieg - an aggressive, orchestrated, whole-of-government (indeed, whole-of-society) campaign to seize the commanding heights of the global economy and to surpass the United States as the world´s preeminent superpower,' Barr said.

'The CCP has launched an orchestrated campaign, across all of its many tentacles in Chinese government and society, to exploit the openness of our institutions in order to destroy them,' Barr said.

'The ultimate ambition of China's rulers isn't to trade with the United States,' Barr said.

 'It is to raid the United States.'

'Globalization does not always point in the direction of greater freedom. A world marching to the beat of Communist China´s drums will not be a hospitable one for institutions that depend on free markets, free trade, or the free exchange of ideas,' Barr said.
 

Barr's address at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is part of the Trump administration to denounce China.



Trump is trying to fend off criticism of his handling of the Coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. economic downturn in order shift the blame back on to China.

Madagascar herb can’t cure COVID-19 – NIPRD

The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) has shared its result from evaluation and analysis of Madagascar’s herbal drink ‘COVID Organics’.



In a statement released on Sunday July 19, the NIPRD said that the drug which contains majorly Artemisia annua cannot effectively cure Coronavirus as claimed. It however reduces frequency of cough with maximum dose, producing an effect equivalent to that produced by the centrally acting cough-suppressant, dihydrocodeine.

The institute further disclosed that it would further investigate the drug’s effect on tracheal mucus expectoration.



It read;

 “Safety studies show that COVID ORGANICS (CVO) products do not alter the normal physiology of the animals.

“CVO caused a significant decrease in the platelet counts although the values are within the physiological range for Wistar rats.

 “The increase in alkaline phosphatase observed in the CVO female group may indicate a cause of concern although the values are within the physiological ranges for Wistar rats and this was not observed in the organs.

“On the whole CVO can be considered safe based on the model used which did not cover other routes of administration, effects of long-term use, or organ histological evaluation of the test systems.

“CVO reduced cough frequency with the maximum dose tested producing an effect equivalent to that produced by the centrally acting cough-suppressant, dihydrocodeine.

“To further characterise this product based on its effect on the respiratory tract, it will be important to investigate its effect on tracheal mucus expectoration.

“While CVO dose-dependently reduced general febrile response, the effect was not sustained and was less than for indomethacin."



Director-General of NIPRD, Dr. Obi Adigwe added;



“Well, I cannot tell you what they have done. I can only tell you what we have done here.

”The analysis we gave in our report is more detail than anything that had come from their country.

“They are hiding the analysis of their own product. If you go online, you cannot get the level of analysis that we gave.

“They are hiding a lot of things and I think it is possible that they know that they don’t have strong science backing up their claim. But our own analysis does not show any proof that it can cure COVID-19.”