ASIA: The disparities in provincial growth across China widened further during the past six months, with the economies in coastal regions surging ahead on the back of increased exports while northern and inland provinces continued lagging behind due to their dependency on slowing government investments, according to data analyzed of new half-year provincial economic data. […]

ASIA: China’s central bank on Friday said that non-bank payment firms must report plans for overseas initial public offerings and other major events. This is the latest move in a widespread regulatory squeeze on the country’s tech firms. Non-bank payment firms should report both domestic and overseas listing plans, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) […]

ASIA: China’s economy grew 7.9 percent from April to June, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Thursday. The growth rate was lower than the forecasted 8.1 percent by most market analysts. Chinese economists are aware that the economy is highly resilient after overcoming the coronavirus pandemic fallout. Increasingly, the giant economy is being […]

  The climate activists come out with every disaster and blame climate change. The brush fires in Australia were climate change yet termite hills were taller than a truck for they have evolved to withstand natural brush fires. The collapse of the condos in Florida was immediately claimed to be caused by rising sea levels […]

QUESTION: Marty, Did you ever think when you studied history, created Socrates, then observed what would unfold in the future would lead you to what we see happening today, in social collapse and the march toward authoritarianism? Truly, wasn’t this like discovering the Rosetta Stone and other mysteries best left untouched? When did it dawn on […]

ASIA: China has scrapped its population control policy. Families in China can have as many children as they like without facing fines or other consequences. The announcement ended, in practice, decades of restrictions on the number of children each household could have, as authorities attempt to encourage births in the face of a rapidly aging […]

ASIA: Japan’s core consumer prices rose 0.2% in June from a year earlier to mark the fastest annual pace in over a year, data showed on Tuesday, a sign the impact of global commodity inflation was gradually broadening. The rise in the core consumer price index (CPI), which includes oil products but excludes volatile fresh […]

ASIA: The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacking. The United States was joined by NATO, the European Union, Britain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Canada in condemning the spying, which U.S. Secretary of […]

ASIA: Shares of Didi plunged more than 7% in US pre-market trade on Friday after officials from seven Chinese government departments visited the ride-hailing giant’s offices to conduct a cybersecurity review. The ride-hailing giant was forced to stop signing up new users and its app was also removed from Chinese app stores. The Cyberspace Administration […]

 ASIA: The Biden administration has vowed to work with Australia to push back against China’s “unfair” trade practices, as the Morrison government seeks international support to fight Beijing’s tariffs on Australian wine. With the US declaring support from Australia, the Guardian reported that the European Union is also set to join as a third party […]