cough

In the more than five-minute long call, Mr Stockton could be heard saying "come on little man", "wakey wakey" and "cough it up" before apparently performing CPR on Charlie under direction from the call-handler.

Over a third of respondents said they had purchased cough syrup during that time.

"The US basically wanted to have China cough up some money for that fund as well. Now they won't be able to do that. That leaves China off the hook," Prof Klein said.

He developed a persistent cough in 2013, but in 2017 he collapsed at work and never returned.

But now he’s a free agent, about to take offers from any team willing to cough up, what, $600 million, maybe more?