The joint expert team from China and the WHO held a press conference in Beijing, praising the public health response measures taken by China for effectively blocking human-to-human transmission of the virus.
The public security system held a conference to study the February 23 speech, at which it put politics first and called for cracking down on forces using the occasion to attack the Party.
Beijing holds a teleconference on coordinating epidemic prevention and control, with Xi Jinping attending and delivering a speech.
Xi Jinping convened a national teleconference, summarizing for officials the deployment of epidemic prevention and control and the so-called institutional advantages.
During the Wuhan pandemic, Ren Zhiqiang wrote a long article criticizing epidemic prevention and control as well as the personality cult, which caused a huge反响 and he subsequently went missing.
On February 14, 2020, in his first public remarks after the outbreak began, Xi Jinping said that the Wuhan epidemic had exposed China's shortcomings and loopholes in biological materials and biosafety management, called for the formulation of a new biosecurity law, and urged that biosecurity be incorporated into the national security system.
The US Department of Justice filed a third superseding indictment, increasing the charges against Huawei to sixteen and applying the RICO Act, typically used to combat organized crime, against Huawei for the first time.
An advance team of WHO experts led by Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward arrived in China to conduct an investigation related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci recorded meetings with the White House and task force in his diary, suggesting that then-US President Trump ask Xi Jinping during a phone call to approve the dispatch of a WHO delegation to China, including CDC and NIH experts.
U.S. President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, stating that he would continue to support the Venezuelan people and calling for Maduro to step down.
On the eve of the Russia-Ukraine war, Germany established a €100 billion special defense fund and signed orders for tanks, artillery, and fighter jets with countries including Poland, South Korea, and the United States.
In February 2020, in his first public remarks after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Xi Jinping said the pandemic was a severe test of the Communist Party’s governing capacity, and called for telling China’s story well to the world.
Ren Zhiqiang published an article criticizing the epidemic response and Xi Jinping, in which he called Xi Jinping "a clown who insists on being emperor even stripped of his clothes."