ASIA: The World Trade Organization found on Tuesday that the United States breached global trading rules by imposing multibillion-dollar tariffs in President Donald Trump’s trade war with China. WTO’s three-member panel said the US duties broke trading rules because they applied only to China and were above maximum rates agreed to by the United States. […]

ASIA: China’s industrial output accelerated the most in eight months in August, while retail sales grew for the first time this year, suggesting the economic recovery is gathering pace as demand starts to improve more broadly from the coronavirus crisis. Industrial output growth quickened to 5.6% in August from a year earlier, the fastest in […]

ASIA: Byte Dance has abandoned the sale of TikTok in the United States on Sunday in pursuit of a partnership with Oracle Corp it hopes will spare it a US ban while appeasing the Chinese government. ByteDance had been in talks to divest TikTok’s US business to either Oracle or a consortium led by Microsoft […]

ASIA: China has imposed “reciprocal restrictions” on all American diplomats at the US embassy and its consulates in China, including the consulate in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in China, in response to US restrictions on the Chinese embassy and consulates, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday. The relevant measures apply to senior […]

  QUESTION: Marty, they do not call you the legend for nothing. You nailed the crash earlier in the year and the very day of the low on March 23. Now your call for the September 3 target was again to the day. In the middle of this chaos, gold has not performed well. Given […]

ASIA: The US says it has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers who are deemed to be a security risk. The move follows a proclamation by President Donald Trump in May aimed at Chinese nationals suspected of having ties to the military. He said some had stolen data and intellectual […]

COMMENT: Hello Martin I listened to your video today about how Socrates predicts civil unrest. It was very informative when you said that the majority of governments are failing and have deficits. In Scotland the first minister may call for a referendum for independence which the media says 56% of the population are in agreeance […]

ASIA: Some 92% of respondents to a survey released Wednesday by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai said they were committed to remaining in the country even as the US-China relationship continues to fracture. According to the findings, more than a quarter of the US firms surveyed said that they expected US-China trade tensions […]

The Democrats are approaching the military to remove Trump as long as the major press declares Biden the winner. They also have the intelligence agencies in their back pocket. Based upon our computer projections for Panic Cycles starting in November and running into February, yet predominantly in December and February, I do not see the […]

ASIA: The Trump administration is considering imposing export restrictions on China’s largest chip manufacturer Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). On Monday, SMIC Hong Kong listed shares plunged more than 20%. President Donald Trump said he intends to curb the US economic relationship with China, contrasting himself with Joe Biden by threatening to punish any American […]