Unless the Biden administration takes action, China Shock 2.0 will cause more harm to the U.S. economy than the last one.
China is expanding its territory on a small island in the Caribbean considered to be in the “backyard” of the United States, according to leaked documents. The island of Antigua, which is roughly 220 miles from the U.S. Virgin Islands,
BEIJING — Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China’s Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government on Sunday to enact emergency response plans to protect more than 127 million people. Calling the situation “grim,” local weather officials said sections of rivers and tributaries at the Xijiang and Beijiang river basins are hitting water levels in a rare spike that only has a one-in-50 chance of happening in any given year, state broadcaster CCTV news...
How will Biden conceal the inflation rampaging throughout his term? The latest scheme appears to be draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the last drop. It’s already down to 17 percent, because Biden opened the spigot when his idiotic sanctions on Russian energy back in 2022 boosted prices at the pump into the stratosphere, always a terrifying development for homo politicus. Biden tamed gas prices by emptying most of the SPR. Now he may finish it off, because no, he can’t have gas prices...
Observers have learned it’s going to take more than a few months of robust numbers to prove a rebound is truly under way.
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The accelerating slide in the value of Japan’s currency could ultimately be bad news for people in Japan who are heavily reliant on importsThe value of Japan’s currency has tumbled so much, that its value is back to where it was in 1990, shortly after Japan’s famous “bubble economy” burst. For a moment on Monday it was trading at 160 yen to US$1. A few years ago, it was closer to 100 yen to US$1.The yen’s accelerating slide could ultimately be bad news for people in Japan. A weaker yen squeezes...
China has forced Apple to ban WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram in the country's App Store.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, stressing the importance of “responsibly managing” the differences between the United States and China as the two sides butted heads over a number of contentious bilateral, regional and global issues. Talks between the two sides have increased in […]
By Francesco Fontemaggi Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to make a state visit to France on May 6 and 7, Paris announced on Monday, with wars in Ukraine and the Middle East expected to be high on the agenda. The visit to France, which will be followed by trips to Serbia and Hungary, marks […]
The declining quality of life in India should prompt soul-searching and rectifying regional cooperation rather than brow beating smaller neighbours.