via CNBC: The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) came in at 48.3 in January, compared to 49.7 in December. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the Caixin PMI to be 49.5 last month. It was the second-consecutive month of …
By Tim Daiss Just like in most things energy related, including crude oil imports, natural gas and LNG imports, coal usage and even nuclear power, China’s massive population and its economic heft also extends far and wide into global solar …
BY JOHN MAULDIN There’s no end in sight to the trade war between the US and China. Beijing has many tricks up its sleeve. But China’s labor market has its own dynamic. The first signs of Chinese economic weakness are showing …
Via The Week Humiliating stunt is latest in a series of headline-grabbing workplace punishments Video footage shows employees at a Chinese beauty company crawling along the street on their hands and knees after failing to meet targets. Pedestrians in Tengzhou, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Painful moment of truth for banks & investors. “Uncertainty over the accuracy of the companies’ books and disclosure of pertinent information”: Fitch Ratings. Defaults by Chinese companies on bonds they issued in China (“onshore” bonds, as …
by Shaun Richards This morning brings us up to date on what has been a theme for a little while now as we have observed one of the main engines of world economic growth starting to miss a beat or …
via Zerohedge: Earlier this month, when we reported that in the latest warning about China’s housing sector, the Communist Party’s People’s Daily warned that China’s regional economies need to reduce their reliance on the property market for growth and instead …
via theverge: China’s police have been testing sunglasses with built-in facial recognition since at least last month to catch suspects and those traveling under false identities. Now China is expanding the facial recognition sunglasses program as police are beginning to use them in …
RT, Released on 1/5/19 Dan Collins of TheChinaMoneyReport.com predicts 2019 can possibly, at long last, be the year in which the Chinese economy actually does fall apart. Many big names in finance have predicted it over the past decade, but …
via rfa.org: Chinese fishermen are damaging the livelihoods of South Americans through large-scale illegal fishing. The fishermen have been visible in the Pacific Ocean for several years, and there’s nothing illegal about their fishing in international waters. But according to …
I never tire of looking at videos of Chinese click farms. It's just so surreal to see hundreds of phones playing the same video for the purposes of fake engagment. pic.twitter.com/bHAGLqRqVb — Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) December 10, 2018 If you …
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 chairman of a leading Chinese state bank on Sunday warned Chinese investors not to buy property now because “there’s no money to be made” due to high prices and alarming vacancy rates. Tian Guoli, the chairman of China Construction …
How arrest of Chinese ‘princess’ exposes regime’s world domination plot Meng is the heiress apparent of China’s largest and most advanced hi-tech company. Huawei is a leader in 5G technology and, earlier this year, surpassed Apple to become the second …
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 …
The discovery will significantly reduce the use of rare, expensive metals in factories, said the authors. Professor Sun Jian and colleagues at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning, shot a copper target …
They are empty because they are not real homes for those who badly need them, they are just speculation items, and speculative bubbles always end badly… AS
If China’s allowed to control their agricultural water supply they’ll control the country. via conservatives.org.au: The latest Agricultural Land Register has revealed that foreign investors increased the size of their Australian agricultural land holdings by 4.1 per cent to 52.6 million hectares in …
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The trade war rhetoric continues to heighten tension between the United States and Chinese governments. The president of Communist China, Xi Jinping even said that “no one is in a position to dictate to the Chinese people,” when …
via Bloomberg: (Bloomberg) — China’s cleanup of its shadow-banking system is fueling a record number of liquidations in its $1.9 trillion mutual fund market. More than 600 funds have been closed this year, surpassing all liquidations in the previous 12 …
via confoundedinterest: (Bloomberg) Here’s another reason Donald Trump is “not at all happy with the Fed” and will continue to be frustrated by the world’s No. 2 economy. He is the first president to suffer the new normal of China becoming more creditworthy than …
https://www.therebel.media/threat-of-… On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Allum Bokhari, senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News, joined me to discuss why people are growing more concerned about threats to their free speech from Silicon Valley big tech companies. …
The Chinese government has expanded its controversial social credit system to include infractions made by research scientists. Researchers in China who commit scientific misconduct could soon be prevented from getting a bank loan, running a company or applying for a …
A Chinese state media outlet is reporting that another Canadian citizen has been detained on suspicion of engaging in activities that endanger China’s national security. The report from Northeast News Network, which cites unnamed sources, said the case of Michael Spavor is …
Chinese miners are reportedly becoming the biggest short sellers both locally and internationally, following an increased number of hedging operations in the current bear market, Chinese crypto outlet 8BTC reported Thursday, Dec. 6. The severe cryptocurrency market decline in the …
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Louisville Slugger, the iconic American baseball bat brand dating to the 19th century, could soon be owned by a Chinese company. Amer Sports, the Finnish company that bought Louisville Slugger in 2015, has agreed to a $5.2 …
by mralstoner Around the same time as a Huawei executive was detained in Canada, for breaching Iran sanctions, two US military planes crashed near Japan. Could they be related? China is working on electronic warfare, so it’s possible they can mess up …
by Geoffrey Grider Ariel sings! She sparkles! And she’s made by Chinese factory workers, mostly women, and paid just 1 penny by Disney for each doll that shimmers off shop shelves. Unless you support legal Chinese slave labor and exploitative factory …
What could ever go wrong? via Reddit: Greetings, r/Libertarian! I want to let you know about an experiment we’re launching in r/Libertarian today. It’s a governance tool based on reputation, as a more federated way to make community decisions. Introducing… Community Points and …
by sundance In June 2018 President Trump instructed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to initiate a 10% tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods (Round #1). After two months of China refusing to negotiate renewed trade deals in good faith President …