Japan has earmarked $2.2 billion of its record economic stimulus package to help its manufacturers shift production out of China as the coronavirus disrupts supply chains between the major trading partners. The extra budget, compiled to try to offset the devastating effects of the pandemic, includes 220 billion yen ($2 billion) for companies shifting production back to Japan and […]
LUCAS NOLAN Chinese state media has been flooding Facebook and Instagram with undisclosed political ads blaming President Donald Trump for the Wuhan coronavirus. Facebook said in a statement that it was an “error” that the ads were not classified as political and is correcting them. The Telegraph reports that Chinese state media has been posting undisclosed political ads […]
By Andrew J. Sciascia Sen. Lindsey Graham issued a public ultimatum Tuesday to the Chinese government and international community regarding the live animal markets believed to be responsible for the global COVID-19 outbreak. Indignant in a Fox News television spot, Graham told American audiences he would soon be drafting a letter to the Chinese foreign ministry […]
China is waging a propaganda war against the coronavirus on several fronts. In well-documented efforts, China has sought to deflect attention from its early suppression of information about COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and to claim that, among all nations, China has halted the scourge. But China’s communist government also is pushing an […]
By William L. Gensert Sometime in June 2001, while browsing the Wall Street Journal, I stumbled upon an item on an inside page all the way at the bottom. It was no more than 75 words in a box. It covered a CIA security announcement concerning an increase in internet and cell phone traffic among suspected terrorists from […]
Reported over the past two years how China’s economy was collapsing. You could feel it and there were many signs of China’s pending economic collapse. Was their response an Act of War? The BBC reported in January that official China figures are out and the news is scary: China’s economy grew last year at the slowest pace […]
KYLE HOOTEN Live animals are still for sale in Chinese food markets that reopened after the country recently declared victory over coronavirus. Cages full of cats and dogs waiting for slaughter and the unsanitary preparation of animals is again reportedly a common sight in Chinese food markets, often called wet-markets, according to in-country correspondents with […]
How would China profit by launching a bio attack on the US’ economy, its people, political system, and businesses? Maybe, if COVID-19 insured Donald Trump’s defeat? The US economy was Trump’s ace to win 2020. Would Chinese leaders conclude that Trump’s defeat will resume the annual half-trillion dollar wealth transfers to China During this period of global […]
by Cassandra Fairbanks Italy is now considered the epicenter of the coronavirus and a professor of virology there believes that a fear of being perceived as “racist” contributed heavily to the massive outbreak. Giorgio Palù is a professor of virology and microbiology of the University of Padova in Italy and the former head of the […]
The outbreak could later have some positives to nationalists and cultural protectionists, and it is likely to have a long-term impact on the free movement of people and goods. Asylum seekers and illegal border crossers will be turned away from the United States and returned to Mexico or (Canada as the case may be) under […]
