The U.S. continues to register record increases in case and fatality numbers in several states, with the country seeing more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths for four straight days.
A Singaporean man who set up a fake consulting site to solicit information from U.S. government and military workers has pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent of Chinese intelligence, the Justice Department said on Friday.
A researcher who took refuge in the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco after allegedly lying to investigators about her Chinese military service was arrested and will appear in court on Friday, according to a senior Justice Department official.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's seeming attempt to rally the Chinese people against the Communist Party of China has the opposite effect of increasing support for the ruling party, said Daniel Russel, former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2013 to 2017.
Scholars from the government-backed think tank China Institute of International Studies said tensions between the U.S. and China appear temporary and largely tied to the current administration.
Malaysia on Friday said U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs has agreed to a $3.9 billion settlement with the government over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.