-25%, $2.4T Lost: The Worst-Performing Stock Market in the World for 2018? China Shanghai Composite Index is a quarter down from start of 2018 Trade war, slowing economy and deleveraging have hurt stocks China Stimulus Is Not A Catalyst China …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “It now appears bike sharing is the stupidest business, but the smartest brains of China all tried to get in,” Wu Shenghua, founder of 3Vbike, one of the many collapsed bike-sharing companies in China, told Reuters. “It …
from Zero Hedge The global scramble for a little known metal called vanadium is officially underway. The metal, which when used in small amounts can help strengthen steel significantly, is in high demand following new Chinese regulations on infrastructure and buildings. The …
CHINA DEPLOYS NEW RADARS AND SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: From the News.com.au report: China has installed a new platform in the Paracel Islands of the South China Sea, with satellite images revealing Beijing’s continuing quest for power …
TAIPEI — A growing number of voices inside and outside Taiwan are warning that China is becoming increasingly sophisticated in its attempts to influence democracy on the island. This has major implications for Taiwan, which will hold presidential and legislative …
via uniindia: Nairobi, Dec 22 (UNI) China is likely to take over Kenya’s Mombasa port if Kenya Railways Corporation defaults in the payment of a loan from Exim Bank of China. Kenya used Mombasa port to secure the loan which was …
The biggest publics works projects in the history of the world is going on right now. It has nothing to do with the Fed or the U.S. at all. It’s China. They went from a tightly controlled system to verbally …
Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, It’s not just a trade war: behind that, hides a tech-war – and behind that, lie the plans for a full-spectrum arms race – from space to cyber. As one US …
US prosecutors have accused two Chinese nationals of working with the Ministry of State Security in China. The FBI accused China of aiming to replace the US as the world’s superpower with “illegal methods.” Zhu Hua and Zhang Jianguo worked …
What do you think China and Japan are doing by selling off the U.S. debt? Is this part of the CURRENCY WAR? Or simply that they need the cash? The U.S. stock market was pummeled and it only seems to …
China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping DONGGUAN, China — China’s consumers and businesses are losing confidence. Car sales have plunged. The housing market is stumbling. Some factories are letting workers off for the big Lunar New Year holiday two …
By Harry Dent I see China as the center of the greatest bubble period in modern history. The emerging world has been on an urbanization tear, especially since 1980, and China has led the way! But, it’s not done so …
China has invested billions of dollars into the continent of Africa to build massive infrastructure projects in African countries. Much of this infrastructure is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, an estimated 1 trillion dollar plan to connect the …
Lauren Fischer for CNBC reports, Apple recovered from earlier losses Monday after a Chinese court banned the import and sale of most iPhone models in the country as part of an injunction. The stock fell as much as 3 percent, …
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today that two Canadian citizens being held in China are being unlawfully detained and should be returned to Canada. Pompeo made the comments in Washington D.C. during a joint press conference with Foreign Affairs Minister …
From Jim Rickards at The Daily Reckoning: On Saturday, Dec. 1, at the end of the G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires, President Trump and his team of trade and finance advisers had dinner with President Xi Jinping of China and his …
by WARREN MOSLER The tariff thing keeps taking its toll: China Nov car sales fall 14%, biggest drop since 2012 (Reuters) China’s automobile sales fell 13.9 percent in November from a year earlier. The drop in sales to 2.55 million …
by Shaun Richards This morning has seen a barrage of economic data released by the National Bureau of Statistics in China. This gives us an opportunity to see if they are catching the economic cold that we have been …
Apple could be looking to kick its China habit. Apple’s (AAPL) suppliers are reportedly considering shifting iPhone production out of China if tariffs reach 25%. According to Bloomberg, Apple and its suppliers plan to stick with their existing production process …
China M1 growth is 32bps away from all-time lows yet its economy remains solely dependent on QE & new credit to expand. If over half of global GDP growth for the last decade relied on China, what is this telling …
Peter Brookes joined Fox Business, Wednesday, December 12, to talk about the latest drama with China, particularly the Chinese arresting a Canadian diplomat in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a top Huawei executive, and the work left to do …
USA TO CONDEMN CHINA – Source The Trump administration is preparing a series of actions this week to call out Beijing for what it says are China’s continued efforts to steal America’s trade secrets and advanced technologies and compromise sensitive …
Well this isn’t weird at all… China has mass produced a lightweight sensory helmet and deployed them in mass. Sounds decent so far, but read along little feller… These helmets read, in real time, the emotions going through the brain …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Industry panics, overcapacity spreads, but government brushes off the wailing and gnashing of teeth, looks to EVs. New-vehicle sales in China plunged 13.9% in November, compared to a year ago, to 2.55 million units, the China …
TradersChoice.net, Released on 12/11/18 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several …
Yep. China owns Long Beach port (purchased this year during the tariff news fiasco) And guess what? That is the EXACT port where federal grant money is going for the high speed rail project that just so happens to follow …
by WARREN MOSLER China exports falling with tariffs: China’s November export, import growth shrinks, showing weak demand US exports turning south as well? The deceleration that started with the collapse of oil capex in Dec 2014 took a brief zig …
by Shaun Richards Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) parliamentary intelligence forum in Washington, D.C. More than 200 members of parliaments from as many as 60 European countries joined us to hear from …
via Meadow Clark: China is deploying emotional surveillance technology that mines data from the minds of its citizens. Essentially, they’re data mining by reading their brains. The light-weight sensory helmets have been rolled out on an industrial scale. The mind data-mining …
by Martin Armstrong China is also experiencing the coldest day record during December 6 below zero C. Snow is falling in Beijing to Shanghai. It has been in the 70s in Abu Dhabi and in Tampa Florida, so the cold …