Iain Marlow

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Remnants of tape after it was removed from signage at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. US Agency for International Development workers, many in tears, carted away belongings through cheering crowds in a final visit to their now-closed headquarters Thursday as the Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of the congressionally authorized agency moved into its final stages, AP reported. Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China swoops in to replace Asian USAID projects axed by Trump

By Iain Marlow, Philip J. Heijmans, and others

Protesters clash with Lebanese security forces on October 18, 2023, outside the US Embassy during a demonstration in solidarity with the people of Gaza in Awkar, East of Beirut, after a strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip killed at least 200 people on October 17, 2023. The Israeli army said on October 17 a strike which hit a Gaza hospital, killing at least 200 people according to Hamas officials, was a rocket misfired by Palestinian militants. Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement called for a “day of rage” to condemn the strike as hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the French and US embassies in protest. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s Middle East trip faces big problems even before it starts after a hospital blast leaves hundreds dead in Gaza

By Jordan Fabian, Iain Marlow, and others

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands ahead of a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 18, 2023. (Photo by LEAH MILLIS / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Amid fears Iran-backed Hezbollah might attack Israel from the north, Antony Blinken urges China to use its influence in the Middle East

By Iain Marlow and Bloomberg

COVID-19 in China

China’s COVID-zero policy likely to stretch into 2023, U.S. ambassador says

By Iain Marlow and Bloomberg

Isolation units at the Penny’s Bay Quarantine Centre in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. The Hong Kong government declared that travelers returning from the U.S. and the U.K have to spend a week of quarantine in a spartan isolation camp, before serving out another 14 days in a hotel room they pay for themselves. Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Hong Kong has some of the world’s toughest COVID policies, including 21-day quarantines. Then its own officials had to go through them

By Iain Marlow and Bloomberg

LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 06: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence think tank, on September 6, 2021 in London, England. Mr Blair, who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, reflected on the roots of Islamist extremism and the consequences of the Afghanistan withdrawal. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

South Dakota and Nevada play surprisingly large role in Pandora Papers tax avoidance leak

By Iain Marlow and Bloomberg

Dominican President Luis Abinader receives the Chinese Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19, two and a half months after the country began to immunize its population against the disease, in Santo Domingo, on May 5, 2021. (Photo by Erika SANTELICES / AFP) (Photo by ERIKA SANTELICES/afp/AFP via Getty Images)

China is filling the global COVID vaccine shortage left by the U.S. and India

By Iain Marlow, Sudhi Ranjan Sen, and others

Hong Kong Scheduled To Hold Legislative Election Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

4 Hong Kong opposition lawmakers ousted minutes after Beijing passes ‘patriot’ requirement

By Alfred Liu, Iain Marlow, and others

Hong Kong Postpones The Legislative Council Election Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

U.S. sanctions mean Hong Kong’s leader is having trouble using her credit card

By Iain Marlow, Natalie Lung, and others

Hong Kong Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai Arrested in Latest Blow to Democracy Camp

Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raid newspaper offices

By Iain Marlow, Natalie Lung, and others

Protesters gathered in Tsim Shai Tsui and Mong Kong on 10 May 2020, as tensions continue between Hong Kong and mainland China. According to local media reports, Chinese authorities were planning to write a new national security law into Hong Kong’s charter in what would be a dramatic escalation of Beijing’s efforts to rein in dissent in the city.

‘No concessions, no dialogue:’ China expected to tighten its control over Hong Kong with new security law

By Iain Marlow, Natalie Lung, and others

US President Donald Trump walks on the south lawn of the White House, after after spending the weekend at Camp David on May 03, 2020 in Washington, DC. The president has promised a “conclusive” investigation into the virus’ origins

Trump is pushing for a “conclusive” report linking COVID-19 to Wuhan lab

By Jordan Fabian, Jennifer Jacobs, and others

HONG KONG, CHINA - MARCH 10: Travellers wearing masks walk at the arrival hall of the Hong Kong International Airport on March 10, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong's government announced all travellers returning from Italy, some parts of France, Germany, and Japan will be put under mandatory quarantine. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Hong Kong will start charging quarantined travelers rent to stop coronavirus freeloading

By Iain Marlow and Bloomberg

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Hong Kong reports its 1st coronavirus death, the 2nd outside mainland China

By Bloomberg, Iain Marlow, and others

Anti-Government Protests Continue in Hong Kong

What U.S. Congress Is—and Isn’t—Doing About Hong Kong Democracy Protests

By Iain Marlow, Daniel Flatley, and others