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Lee Jeong-ho
Lee Jeong-ho
Reporter, China
Lee Jeong-ho is a former China desk reporter. He covered China's diplomacy, as well as East Asian security and defence stories. Before joining the Post he was with the South Korean Air Force and News1 Korea. He has a bachelor's degree in media and communications and Chinese studies from Sydney University and a master's of international studies in Chinese area studies from Seoul National University.
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Factories in Pyongyang are churning out tens of thousands of masks each day but state media does not confirm the presence of virus in North Korea.

These are the similarities and differences between the latest health emergency and its predecessor, Sars, which affected more than 8,000 people in 37 countries.

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Government estimates that 100,000 pieces of gear are needed every day in virus epicentre Hubei province alone, but Chinese suppliers can only meet a third of that.

US ‘greatly appreciates [China’s] efforts and transparency’, president says in a tweet, as woman in her 60s becomes America’s second confirmed case.

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Pyongyang and Washington both seem likely to retreat to hardened positions more in line with 2017 as talks falter, analysts say, while China should grow into a larger role, with North Korea increasingly reliant on it as an economic ally.

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US Defence Secretary Mark Esper says Beijing’s ‘brazen’ activities in the South China Sea ‘assert illegitimate maritime claims’ and ‘threaten its neighbours' sovereignty’.

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‘They want it, and so do we!’ the US president says in his Twitter post, sending the S&P 500 surging to a record high. The tweet comes with 15 per cent tariffs on US$156 billion of Chinese imports slated to go into effect on Sunday.

Susan Thornton, former Trump administration expert on Asia, discusses her recent conversations with Chinese: ‘It seemed very much that the trade-negotiation moment may have passed.’

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Pact’s end would have aided Beijing by weakening Seoul-Tokyo cooperation and the US-led alliance with South Korea and Japan, says a former US Forces Korea commander.

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Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Jim Risch start a ‘hotline’ to let Senate speed up approval of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, but passage was not clinched by end of business on Thursday

EU spokeswoman says such an investigation is ‘a critical element in de-escalation efforts’, as six months of clashes seem to reach a new level of confrontation.

After talks collapsed in June, Kim Jong-un fell back on his signature tactic: test-firing ballistic missiles. Washington and Seoul have also moved toward their traditional stance on Pyongyang and will resume joint air defence exercises next month.

Chinese commerce ministry cites ‘consensus on principles’ after Vice-Premier Liu He speaks with USTR’s Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, while US side cites ‘progress in a variety of areas’.