WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order to halt federal funding for a type of biomedical research in China and Iran, aiming to prevent development of another pandemic like COVID-19.Trump and some federal agencies have long theorized that the pandemic began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which the Chinese deny.

US President Donald Trump on Monday ordered new limitations on a form of biological research his administration says caused the Covid-19 pandemic through a lab leak in China.

The former President's executive order will immediately halt "any present and all future" US funding for gain-of-function research in countries like China and Iran that lack proper safety oversight

Temu, a popular China-based e-tailer, halted shipments to the United States after President Donald Trump ended a trade loophole exempting low-value goods from tariffs. Temu has historically benefited from a provision called the “de minimis rule” that exempted goods worth $800 or less from tariffs.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. was meeting with many countries, including China, on trade deals, and his main priority with China was to secure a fair trade deal.

President Donald Trump said he is willing to lower tariffs on China at some point because the levies now are so high that the world’s two largest economies have essentially stopped doing business with each other.

President Donald Trump refused China's demand of lowering 145% tariffs to get Beijing to the negotiating table, saying levies could come down eventually.