Under a Cold War arrangement entered into with Chiang Kai Shek’s Kuomintang and active ever since, the United States has been regularly supplying Taiwan with military materials. China is infuriated, and escalation is looking likely.

In a recent swine flu-related study. Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have concluded that pregnant women who get the dreaded virus are four times more likely to be hospitalized as compared to other swine flu patients.