US federal prosecutors have charged Boston University visiting scholar Ye Yanqing, who concealed her affiliation with the National University of Defense Technology and her rank as a lieutenant in the People's Liberation Army, with visa fraud, false statements, and acting as an agent of a foreign government.
Tong Liya hosts the CCTV Spring Festival Gala main venue for the first time, partnering with Negmat Rahman, while Li Sisi withdraws from the main venue.
Under the exposure of insider information and public pressure, the Chinese government admitted human-to-human transmission and announced a surge in cases within 24 hours, followed by Wuhan's announcement of a lockdown.
Unable to tolerate the cover-up, Yan Limeng used overseas platforms such as Lude Media to disclose the truth that COVID-19 is human-to-human transmissible, has no natural intermediate host, and that the CCP is concealing the epidemic.
On January 15, 2020, US President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed the China-US Phase One economic and trade agreement at the White House.
On January 8, 2020, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles at Ain al-Asad and other air bases in Iraq where U.S. troops were stationed, in retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani; Trump subsequently said that Iran appeared to be standing down.
On January 3, 2020, the U.S. military killed Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Quds Force, in a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport; nine people died, including Iraqi militia deputy commander al-Muhandis, who was in the same vehicle.
The video says that after Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang warned about the spread of the virus and conditions in the hospital, he was ordered to receive an admonition, write and sign a confession statement; the incident subsequently drew international attention.
China implemented strict zero-COVID policies and lockdowns over the long term starting with the Wuhan lockdown on January 23, 2020, broadly restricting people's movement; after the "New Ten Measures" were issued on December 7, 2022, it effectively abandoned dynamic zero-COVID.
On January 1, 2020, the Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued a notice stating that 8 people who had spread rumors were being investigated and punished according to law. The notice was broadcast on CCTV, and Li Wenliang's epidemic warning was among them.
On January 1, 2020, China's central health authority issued a gag order to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, ordering it to destroy all collected coronavirus samples; a few days later, the People's Liberation Army of China took over the laboratory. The institute subsequently published an open letter in response to questions about genetic engineering, a lab leak, and military involvement, but provided no detailed evidence.
AUS acknowledged deficiencies in its transaction monitoring system between January 2020 and December 2023, which failed to prevent illegal transactions by some Alibaba merchants.