via mises: Are the Chinese Keynesian? We can be reasonably certain that Chinese government officials approaching middle age have been heavily westernised through their education. Nowhere is this likely to matter more than in the fields of finance and economics. In …
by youtubehead Everyone here is so focused on the US. But what’s happening in China is really concerning. Recently, a major property developer had to go out to the debt market and pay 13% yield. Wynn stated the high rollers …
Economic Security as National Security: A Discussion with Dr. Peter Navarro The intersection of the economy and national security is at the forefront of policymakers’ minds with the public release of the industrial base review last month that found an …
Authored by Kenneth Rogoff, op-ed via The Guardian, Analysts say a Chinese recession would only hurt the region. That may be wishful thinking… When China finally has its inevitable growth recession – which will almost surely be amplified by a …
by NineteenEighty9 I’m glad it says paid advertisement but I wish they wouldn’t make it look so much like a legitimate news article.
One of the largest intelligence failures of the past decade started in Iran in 2009, when the Obama administration announced the discovery of a secret Iranian underground enrichment facility — part of Iran’s headlong drive for nuclear weapons. Angered about …
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China’s model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. The annual Freedom House study of …
A disturbing report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “Picking flowers in foreign lands to make honey in China.” via aspi.org.au: Since 2007, the PLA has sponsored more than 2,500 military scientists and engineers to study abroad and has developed relationships …
by NineteenEighty9 The United States is preparing new tariffs against all remaining Chinese imports if trade talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail to reconcile the ongoing trade dispute, according to Bloomberg News. The U.S. stock market fell …
Robots will build robots in $150 million Chinese factoryhttps://t.co/OwC5RKmPMm — False Flag 2025 (@FalseFlag_Watch) October 28, 2018 remember Geordie Rose prediction…in 13 years humans will be obsolete UFS
by Bill Bonner YOUGHAL, IRELAND – As expected, the Dow bounced back yesterday. The index was up 400 points. But this morning opened with another downdraft. Maybe the bubble and the pin have found each other. Maybe they haven’t. TBD… Fall …
Zheng Xiaosong, the head of China’s liaison office to Macau died late on Saturday after falling from the building where he lived, the Chinese government said on Sunday. Zheng had been suffering from depression, the Hong Kong and Macau Office …
from Zero Hedge Yesterday, when looking at a chart of gold priced in yuan, a level which the PBOC appeared to be far more concerned about than the yuan-dollar exchange rate, we asked if the Chinese central bank had “lost control”, because after …
via usni.org: The link takes you to a US Naval Institute commentary on a Centers for Strategic and International Studies panel addressing Chinese navy actions in the contested sea area. There is an embedded video of the panel. The video doesn’t …
via Zerohedge: For readers who missed the damning series of leaks sketching out the scope of the project, “Dragonfly” is intended to be a censored search engine that would block results for queries that the Chinese government considered sensitive, like …
It costs 55–60% more to manufacture a car in the US than it does to produce the same car in China. Listen on Driverless Electric Radio… http://www.driverlesselectric.com/2018/10/08/tesla-speeding-up-chinese-factory-due-to-trump-trade-war/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/02/tesla-plans-rapid-build-out-of-china-factory-as-tariffs-weigh-down-automaker/ h/t Matrix
by IndenturedServant, TBP I know that Q is Kryptonite to The Burning Platform but I watched this because Q suggested it. I tried playing it in the background but had to stop multitasking and restart it from the beginning. It truly …
Data center equipment run by Amazon Web Services and Apple may have been subject to surveillance from the Chinese government via a tiny microchip inserted during the equipment manufacturing process, according to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report on Thursday. The claims …
BY JOHN MAULDIN Many good things are happening in China. Businesses are prospering. Living standards rise. The country’s interior is still quite poor but life is improving. This progress is welcome news. The problem is how China is financing it. The …
via yahoo: With little prospect of a restart for U.S.-China trade talks, JPMorgan Chase & Co. now expects an escalation in tensions that will see higher American tariffs on all Chinese imports, sending the yuan sliding to its weakest against …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjra2MetN3s Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, Ji Chaoqun, 27, a Chinese citizen living in Chicago was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday for spying on U.S. engineers, including defense contractors. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…
by withabackpack I have been doing some research into Chinese stocks recently as lots of people have been saying they are presenting buying opportunities at these prices. However I discovered that it is illegal (seemingly?) for us foreigners to actually …
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, better known as CALPERS, has offered the job of chief investment officer to Ben Meng, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Meng is an official of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange, its foreign …
it is almost scary that $SPX has completely ignored Chinese meltdown pic.twitter.com/XnFessMv40 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 11, 2018 https://twitter.com/IncomeDisparity/status/1039328602783928320 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1039872938739154944 It may seem like the hedge fund industry is starting to rebound. The reality isn’t so rosy. Presenting – The …
by Geoffrey Grider The Chinese government is destroying crosses, burning bibles, closing churches and forcing Christian believers to sign papers renouncing their faith as the crackdown on religious congregations in Beijing and several provinces intensifies. We are not now in the time …
by stockboardasset The U.S. Department of Defense’s annual report to Congress, released in August, details military and security developments of the Chinese armed forces, drew attention to the “People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia” (PAFMM), a weaponized fishing fleet funded by Beijing — a …
via Sven Carlin: Summary Even if HTHT’s stock is already 37% below its 52-week high, there is more room to fall. Its valuation is stretched when compared to its outlook and competition. Both Huazhu and its competition have big growth plans. …
The Chinese government is destroying cross, burning bibles, closing churches and forcing Christian believers to sign papers renouncing their faith as the crackdown on religious congregations in Beijing and several provinces intensifies. The suppression of religious freedoms comes as an …
A new video produced by China’s military that features the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) showing off a wide range of the country’s latest military technology The just over two-minute video, called “I am a Chinese soldier” is an over the …
by sundance When China announced the One-Road/One-Belt initiative (now banned from discussion in Beijing); in combination with a looming trade confrontation with President Trump; CTH pointed out that sketchy pandas’ bamboo economy was very vulnerable because it was deep, but narrow – simply …