| Police sweep | Biden's pick for secretary of state denounced Hong Kong's arrest of dozens of opposition figures under a controversial national security law. Police said they picked up 53 people in the operation, including several prominent former lawmakers and an American lawyer, over an informal primary held last July to choose candidates for a legislative election that was subsequently postponed by the government. - The New York Stock Exchange is considering reversing course a second time to delist three major Chinese telecom firms as it struggles to interpret an executive order Trump issued on Nov. 12.
- Trump signed an order banning U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps including Ant Group's Alipay and Tencent's digital wallets.
Probe delayed | In a rare rebuke, the World Health Organization expressed disappointment with China for delaying the travel of experts to the country to investigate the origin of the coronavirus. It comes despite months of planning between Chinese officials and the WHO team, fueling concerns that Beijing is obstructing efforts to trace the origins of a pandemic that's killed more than 1.8 million people worldwide. Pandemic pressure | Chancellor Angela Merkel called an emergency cabinet meeting on Germany's Covid-19 vaccine program amid friction within her government over claims the rollout has been too slow. It comes after senior members of her Social Democrat partners questioned ceding responsibility for procuring vaccines to the European Union, as party tensions rise before September's national elections. Sounding bleak | Kim Jong Un issued a dire warning at North Korea's first ruling party congress in five years, saying development plans fell far short of their goals and the party would explore a "new path" for a "big leap forward." There was no mention so far in state media coverage of the congress — convened to draft a new economic plan and set to run for several days — of any plan to revive talks with the U.S. on the regime's nuclear arms program under a Biden presidency.  Kim at the congress in Pyongyang yesterday. Independent journalists were not given access to the event with this image distributed by the North Korean government. Photographer: 朝鮮通信社/KCNA via KNS Tracing controversy | Singapore's government defended the use of contact tracing data in police investigations, as a senior lawmaker said information from the widely-adopted Covid-19 tracker program has already been deployed to assist in a murder case. The revelation adds to privacy concerns, with an opposition lawmaker cautioning it could lead to lower usage of the app. What to Watch -
Saudi Arabia surprised the market with a large cut in crude production, an assertion of primacy over the global oil industry from the kingdom's de-facto ruler that also papers over cracks in the OPEC+ coalition. -
Tens of millions of vaccine doses are sitting in storage in India despite being authorized for use as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government haggles over pricing with the producer. And finally ... The U.K. is back at the epicenter of Europe's struggle to contain Covid-19 and that's raising concerns about an already-stretched healthcare system, with medical staff warning they may be forced to turn people away from hospitals. "There are so many thousands of patients coming in," says Tom Dolphin, a consultant anesthetist at a London hospital. "The worrying thing is we probably haven't seen the peak yet from the patients coming who got infected over Christmas and the New Year period."  An ambulance at the Royal Free Hospital in London, U.K. on Monday. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg | 
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