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“KING OF STORMS” Devastates Hong Kong, Makes Landfall in China Sunday
“KING OF STORMS” Devastates Hong Kong, Makes Landfall in China Sunday On Friday, two massive storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — made devastating landfall on opposite ends the world, but are leaving behind destruction in different ways. For Florence, it was mainly a rain event in the Carolinas. For Mangkhut, it was the wind […]
Trump To Announce $200 Billion In New China Tariffs As Soon As Monday
Trump To Announce $200 Billion In New China Tariffs As Soon As Monday In the latest installment of the story that just won’t go away, the WSJ reported on Saturday that – as Bloomberg reported first yesterday – the Trump administration plans to announce new tariffs on up to $200 billion in Chinese goods as […]
Google Engineers Quit After Secretive China Project Links Phone Number To Searches
Google Engineers Quit After Secretive China Project Links Phone Number To Searches A prototype of Google’s censored search engine for China links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, “thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries,” reports The Intercept. Photo: Alex Castro / The Verge The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, revolves […]
Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum Wrap Up: De-Dollarization Tops Agenda
Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum Wrap Up: De-Dollarization Tops Agenda The Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) was held in Vladivostok on Sept.11-13. Founded in 2015, the event has become a platform for planning and launching projects to strengthen business ties in the Asia-Pacific region. This year, the EEF brought together delegations from over 60 countries to discuss […]
Tepper: Trump’s China Tariffs Could Trigger A 20% Pullback In US Stocks
Tepper: Trump’s China Tariffs Could Trigger A 20% Pullback In US Stocks David Tepper was probably riding high after his Carolina Panthers bested the Dallas Cowboys in Sunday’s NFL season opener until Thursday afternoon, when he was forced to reckon with the fact that he’s been underweight US equities since he predicted back in April […]
The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial Crisis
Carl Court/Getty Images The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial Crisis Although the global economy has been undergoing a sustained period of synchronized growth, it will inevitably lose steam as unsustainable fiscal policies in the US start to phase out. Come 2020, the stage will be set for another downturn – and, unlike in […]
The next financial crash is imminent, and China’s resource crisis could be the trigger
The next financial crash is imminent, and China’s resource crisis could be the trigger Over three decades, the value of energy China extracts from its domestic oil, gas and coal supplies has plummeted by half Source: naturepost China’s economic slowdown could be a key trigger of the coming global financial crisis, but one of its core drivers — China’s […]
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran America’s three principal adversaries signify the shape of the world to come: a post-Western world of coexistence. But neolibera and neocon ideology is unable to to accept global pluralism and multipolarity, argues Patrick Lawrence. The Trump administration has brought U.S. foreign policy to the […]
China Halts Licenses For US Companies Amid Tariff Battle
China Halts Licenses For US Companies Amid Tariff Battle As the tariff battle between Washington and Beijing worsens, China has halted license applications from American companies in financial services and other industries until progress is made towards settling the trade dispute, reports AP, citing an official belonging to a business group. The disclosure marks the first public […]
Global Stocks, Futures Slide As China Shatters Trade Calm
Global Stocks, Futures Slide As China Shatters Trade Calm Just when it seemed that the tenuous trade ceasefire between the US and China could result in more stable market sentiment, European stocks dropped -0.5% to session lows led by mining and autos, with S&P futures sliding as volume surged, joining Asia in the red after […]
9/11 In Context
9/11 In Context Only with context can we gain insight and perspective into the horrible, barbaric 9/11 attack. Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror Scores of government officials throughout the world have admitted (either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos) to carrying out – or […]
There Goes The Credit Impulse: Why Chinese Consumption Is On The Verge Of Collapse
There Goes The Credit Impulse: Why Chinese Consumption Is On The Verge Of Collapse Recently we discussed how in addition to the widely manipulated Chinese GDP data, new concerns had emerged about official data involving Chinese industrial profits, because while China’s National Bureau of Statistics has traditionally reported positive year-on-year growth rates in percentage terms, […]
Global Trade Hit By Rare Decline As “Supply Chains Seize Up”
Global Trade Hit By Rare Decline As “Supply Chains Seize Up” With the Trump administration about to slap tariffs of up to 25% on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, new data suggests that the global slowdown has already begun. Confirming our observations from two weeks ago, in which we showed that the latest […]
China’s Pig Market On Lockdown As African Swine Fever Spreads
China’s Pig Market On Lockdown As African Swine Fever Spreads A series of African Swine Fever outbreaks in China is “here to stay,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday, adding that it could spread to neighboring countries in Asia. On Wednesday, the FAO assembled an emergency meeting in Bangkok consisting of […]
Chinese Influence Ops In The US Are Blowback From Decades Of CIA Ops Elsewhere
Chinese Influence Ops In The US Are Blowback From Decades Of CIA Ops Elsewhere The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission alleged that Beijing is running a massive influence operation inside of America’s institutions. The recently released report raises the alarm about what its authors claim are China’s clandestine efforts “to outsource its messaging […]
