The United States has about 7,000 ambulatory surgery centers independent of hospitals. As the Chinese population is four times that of the US, China should have 280,000 ambulatory surgery centers, while currently there are fewer than 20 in the country, he added.
The US Treasury Department said in a report to Congress that no major US trading partner currently meets the relevant legislative criteria for currency manipulation.
The United States is "breaking records every day" in the number of COVID-19 infections "while many other developed countries gradually get back to normal," Frida Ghitis wrote in a recent opinion piece published by CNN, stressing the urgent need to fight the virus in the country.
The United States has banned Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp from buying any US technology for seven years, a decision that may deal a blow to the Chinese company and negatively affect the global telecom industry.
The United States is taking aim again at the European Union's subsidies on large civil aircraft, proposing increased tariffs on some products the Continent is famous for, such as parmesan cheese, olives and pasta from Italy, and Irish and Scotch whisky.
The US, which has 4.25 percent of the world's population, accounts for almost a fifth of the world's nearly 110,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the disease first emerged late last year.
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The US State Department also commented on the Russian supplies.
The USDA reported US wheat export sales totaled 312,100 metric tons in the week ending Aug 29, below analysts' forecasts that ranged from 400,000 to 800,000 metric tons.
The US Senate passed a major bill on a party-line vote whose main feature is a drastic tax cut for corporations - a reduction of tax rates down to 20 percent from 35 percent, the lowest level in decades. Taxes for individuals would also be eased modestly in the short run, but would quickly rise for middle-and low-income earners.
The U.S. Navy on Thursday said that a sailor aboard the aircraft carrier died of coronavirus-related complications earlier this month.