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State-backed hackers from Iran and China recently targeted the presidential campaigns of Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, a Google threat analyst said on...
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The label applies to outlets like Russia’s RT and Sputnik, Iran’s Press TV and China’s Xinhua News.
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Over the past 20 years there’s been remarkable growth in China-Africa links because of increased trade and investment. As a result there’s also been a great deal of movement of people between China and African countries. It’s estimated that...
Shenzen Adopts China's First Personal Bankruptcy Laws As Small Businesses, Freelancers Face Financial Ruin
Tyler Durden
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 19:45
Surprisingly enough, considering that it's a Communist State founded - at least,...
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Post by Kaitlin Stanford. Last week, YouTube-famous parents Myka and James Stauffer caused a firestorm of controversy after announcing that they had "rehomed" their 5-year-old son Huxley, whom they adopted from China in 2017. While the Stauffers...
Healthcare workers who spoke out about lack of PPE showed individual moral courage during COVID-19. So did Li Wenliang of China. Jaya Mallidi, MD, asks, where is that courage in healthcare organizations? theheart.org on Medscape
Democratic senators expressed concerns Thursday that the use of police force against protestors across the nation would undermine U.S. efforts to fight China’s attacks on Hong Kong’s autonomy. Several Democratic members of the Senate Banking...
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While Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) has been making big gains lately, including a 29% stock market rise in May and a June rollout of its plant-based burgers in China, rival Impossible Foods is taking steps to catch up. Among these is its recent...
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The NBA and its vocal urging of its players to speak out against injustice as protests continue across the country makes the league's acquiescence to China look even worse than it did during last year's Hong Kong...
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Ian Buruma: Deng Xiaoping’s Victory https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tiana nmen-square-massacre-pioneered-illiberal-democracy -by-ian-buruma-2019-06: 'China never looked back (literally as well as figuratively, because the events of...
Note to Self: How does the U.S. economy really compare in size to China's right now?: Statistics Times: Comparing United States and China: "The United States and China are the two largest economies of the world in both Nominal and PPP...
US Exports, Imports Crater Most On Record As China Refuses To Comply With Trade Deal
Tyler Durden
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 12:05
While today's trade balance print at $49.4 billion came generally in line as expected, the relative calm...
Matthew Petti
Politics,
“President Trump leads China's leaders to believe that they can tighten their grip on their own people.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D–Ohio) said that President Donald Trump “leads China's leaders to believe that they can...
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Shares of JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS), a China-based maker of solar modules, silicon wafers, solar cells, and silicon ingots, and also a developer of solar farms, soared more than 12% out of the gate on Thursday. The company had just announced that the...
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Tencent (OTC: TCEHY) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), two of the largest tech companies in the world, have generated massive returns for investors over the past decade. Tencent's stock surged 1,360% as it expanded its gaming ecosystem and WeChat, China's...
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Banana plantations in Yunnan Province account for over one-fifth of the total planted area of China, serving as a pillar industry for local farmers. However, hydrological threats caused by the rapid expansion of banana agriculture have received...
A new security law in Hong Kong is bad, but Trump's revocation of Hong Kong's special trade status could make matters even worse.
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We’ve pointed out since March that predictions on mortality rates related to the China Coronavirus were garbage. Now we know without a doubt that the much of the coronavirus data is garbage as well.
Mortality Rates
We now know that the...
The U.S. telecom stocks mirrored the benchmark S&P index in the past week and witnessed a gradual uptrend, as the government continued its relentless pursuit to keep China-backed firms out of its telecom network in order to lend support to...
Yesterday, we did our first live blogging on a hearing with former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. There was a lot of broken china after the hearing was over. Indeed, the most interesting aspect was that some of the greatest damage for the...