Taiwan’s Pineapple Craze to Thwart China
Taiwan China relations are heating up as China bans imports of Taiwan pineapples. But that’s created a worldwide backlash.
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‘It looks like the end of the world’: China’s worst sandstorm in a decade chokes Beijing
China’s capital city woke up to yellow skies on Monday as the biggest sandstorm the country has seen in a decade swept through the city, sparking new health fears. The thick brown dust shrouded Beijing‘s iconic landmarks, including the Forbidden City, …
China’s Greatest Challenge Is a Baby Bust, Not America
A superpower denied? China’s economic growth rate will slow appreciably going forward, as will its pace of development and innovation, thanks to a demographics nightmare. And the world needs to take notice. Western media outlets frequently seem awed by both the …
Building U.S. – Asian Teamwork Against China
New administrations that differ in partisan orientation from their predecessors have a habit of reorienting American foreign policy. George W. Bush, until September 11, 2001, planned to shift America’s focus back to great-power competition, even dispatching Donald Rumsfeld, at that point …
China is Developing Civilization Killer Viruses
Gordon Chang warns the coronavirus will not be the last virus from the Chinese Communist Party, and the next will be designed to kill entire civilizations. “We’ve obviously got to do something and the reason is this is not the …
Patrick Buchanan: Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?… To Prevent Chinese Takeover, Ukraine Seizes Aircraft Maker… Redirecting U.S. Defense to the Indo-Pacific
Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable? Today, the four premier leaders of The Quad — the U.S., Australia, India and Japan — conduct their first summit, by teleconference. The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is an informal strategy …
China Allow People With High “Social Credit Score” to Board the Subway First
China’s totalitarian “social credit system,” which rates the quality of an individual’s citizenship based on everything from their financial credit rating to how fervently they embrace Communist Party dogma, will now determine who gets to board subway trains first. “Bad” …
China going on offensive against USA in media.
Commies are giving the Americans a taste of their own propaganda medicine. h/t KingMarduk
It’s a Real National Security Issue That Most of Our Military Supplies Are MADE IN CHINA
by Robert Wheeler America Could Be Headed for WAR With No Equipment or Supplies I’ve been writing about the U.S. supply chain for months and pointing out how the American food supply chain has been disrupted by COVID restrictions, natural disasters, and (intentional?) mismanagement. …
China Stock Rout Continues
(Bloomberg) — A world-beating rally in Chinese stocks has turned into the biggest rout globally, shocking investors with the severity of its reversal and evading state efforts to slow the pace of losses.In just 14 trading days, the nation’s benchmark …
How China’s Military and Police Use US Satellites
American satellite companies like Boeing, SSL, and the Carlyle Group are helping China’s military police with mass surveillance and monitoring of the Chinese people, including Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, China island building in the South China Sea, and broadcasting state-run …
China’s “Neutron Bomb” Returns: Bad Loans Surge Most In 3 Years
via Zerohedge: The last time we did a closer look at China’s bad debt, a topic that has been particularly sensitive for an economy whose financial sector is now over $40 trillion, was in late 2015 when CLSA stumbled on what we …
Legendary Fund Manager, Felix Zulauf, Says US-China Trade Deal Setting Up for ‘Buy the Rumor, Sell the News’ Event
by FS Though expectations continue to run high for positive impacts from a U.S.-China trade deal, it won’t change the economy or stock market’s fortune for long, says Felix Zulauf, head of Zulauf Asset Management and Zulauf Consulting. China and the …
China Tries to Muscle in on US Dollar as Payments Currency, But It’s a Tough Thankless Slog
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Dollar hegemony is a tough nut to crack. China is taking another baby step in promoting the internationalization of the renminbi and nibble on the hegemony of the US dollar: It’s pushing a proposal to add …
China fighting pollution, deploys 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in bid to grow 6 million hectares of new forest this year.
China has reportedly reassigned over 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in a bid to combat pollution by increasing the country’s forest coverage. A large regiment from the People’s Liberation Army, along with some of the nation’s armed police force, have been withdrawn from their …
U.S.-China Trade War Talks to Continue – What It Means for Markets and Consumers
From Birch Gold Group According to CNN, next week the U.S. and China will begin the first of at least two scheduled trade war talks in an effort to move closer to ending their trade disputes. The White House was quoted in …
China Goes GAGA For Coal Fired Power Plants
by Natura Naturans China is going GAGA for coal, planning 300-500 new plants: Greenies read it and weep, more coal plants than the US has in total. And China signed the climate agreement, but they have a loophole, the Chinese don’t …
China Holds The Gold And Will Make The Rules
by Egon von Greyerz Gold is the ultimate insurance against a bankrupt financial system, a corrupt political system and a rotten monetary system. But official propaganda, combined with people’s greed, mean that virtually nobody understands the necessity of insuring against …
China Says NO MONEY PRINTING, Stocks DROP! Surprised?
Hmmm… No more money printing. No more stimulus. Economy is doing better than expected. Something smells fishy… China has been addicted to stimulus. Does that sound familiar to you? Just about every country seems to be doing this now. …
Are China’s Crude Reserves Quietly Dwindling?
By Haley Zaremba When it comes to its strategic petroleum reserves–and most other things, for that matter–China keeps its cards close to the vest. While tight-lipped government agencies have not and likely will not release detailed data about their strategic …
Housing starts, Unemployment claims, China
by WARREN MOSLER Still heading south: In addition to tightening requirements, states have found other means to keep people from receiving benefits: Has the economy made it arder to get unemployment benefits? Not every terminated employee is eligible to receive …
China’s Fake Numbers And The Risk They Pose For The Rest Of The World
BY JOHN RUBINO Not so long ago, London Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard was one of the handful of must-read financial journalists. He probably still is, but since he disappeared behind the Telegraph’s pay wall his work is invisible to non-subscribers, only emerging when …
China’s Newest Oil Hotspot Is In America’s Backyard
By Tim Daiss Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday that an affiliate of Chinese oil major CNPC, Great Wall Drilling, was drilling for oil off Cuba’s coast as part of a joint venture with state-owned oil firm Cuba Petroleum Company …
China So Desperate To Prevent Collapse They’ll PAY YOU To Buy A Car or Smartphone
When you see stimulus packages, is that a sign of strength or weakness? I personally believe that the majority of people see it as strength. They say “look, the government is backing them up”. To me it shows failure. Some …
US And China Credit Impulses Are Negative (Annual Change As % Of GDP)
by confoundedinterest The bad news? The credit impulses (annual change as a percentage of GDP) for both the USA and China are negative. The good news? The decline in China’s credit impulse is lessening. If we throw the Eurozone into the …
China GDP upside surprise not so impressive!
via @Schuldensuehner: Just to put things into perspective. DB highlights that China total govt spending rose by 23% in Q1. DB analysts noted that fiscal policy was eased by a fairly eye catching 6ppts of nominal GDP in Q1, so China …
China’s stock markets are up more than 30 percent so far this year
by seo-clien China’s stock markets have been on a tear so far this year, amid optimism about a possible trade deal with the U.S. and hopes that the economy may be bottoming out. As of Tuesday’s close, the Shanghai …
Trade, Housing affordability, China, BOJ equity buying, Retail comment
by WARREN MOSLER Imports and exports both decelerating indicates a weaker global economy, and weak US retail sales indicates domestic consumer spending growth is slowing: Highlights First-quarter GDP looks to get a major boost from improvement in the nation’s trade …