ASIA: China’s factory activity extended solid growth in September, a private survey showed as the nation’s crucial exports engine revved up on improving overseas demand and underlined a steady economic recovery from the coronavirus shock. The official manufacturing Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) rose to 51.5 in September from 51.0 in August, according to data from […]

ASIA: US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that China must be held accountable for having “unleashed” COVID-19 on the world, prompting Beijing to accuse him of “lies” and abusing the U.N. platform to provoke confrontation. But China’s UN ambassador Zhang Jun rejected Trump’s accusations against China as “baseless” and […]

The Economist just ran a story that summarized the change in work that “people particularly fond of their pyjamas [sic] have for decades been arguing that a lot of work done in large shared offices could better be done at home. With covid-19 their ideas were put to the test in a huge if not […]

COMMENT: Has social media replaced civil disobedience, do people vent their spleens over a keyboard and feel that they’ve made their contribution. When will we see politicians hanging from lampposts? Cheers A REPLY: It is clever to call anyone who disagrees with this agenda a “conspiracy theorist” so then they do not have to answer […]

Appellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett is at the top of the list for replacements for Justice Ginsberg. Like hydroxychloroquine, simply because Trump nominates her she will be vilified. She is a Catholic and already the Democrats are preparing to tear her apart based on her religions. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame’s law […]

I seriously doubt that people realize the extent of the economic damage caused by this HOAX instigated but a group of Oligarchs & Academics frunk on their own power and ignorance of how the real world even functions. When you shake hands with someone, you get a sense of their character or lack thereof by […]

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. […]

A federal judge has ruled against Pennsylvania’s Governor Democrat Tom Wolf who has put countless small businesses out of business permanently including friends who had just opened a health spa and lost their life savings. Wolf imposed restrictions of no more than 25 people were allowed indoors and 250 people outdoors. The judge correctly ruled […]

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 […]