World coronavirus dispatch: China prepares for full-blown global offensive

From Spain and Italy relaxing lockdowns to Russia hitting a new daily high for cases, and Trump backing claim that coronavirus emerged out of Wuhan lab - read these and more in today's world dispatch

An internal Chinese report has warned that the rising wave of hostility Beijing is facing in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak could tip its relations with the US into confrontation. The report, presented early last month by the Ministry of State Security to top Beijing leaders, including President Xi Jinping, and obtained by Reuters through sources, concluded that global anti-China sentiment was at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. This goes on to show China may have started arrangements to prepare for a full-blown global offensive. Read more here.

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