I don't think you understand the concept of soft power you don't need to make friends with your friends. You can argue about who within a country you give it to but it can be a worth while investment. If giving money to Iran gives us influence or information then it's fine, I suggest you educate yourself on these things.
"Life is one long series of problems to solve. The more you solve, the better a man you become.... Tribulations spawn in life and over and over again we must stand our ground and face them."
Its worse than that, Germany was blocking shipments of masks, gloves and the likes that were only transiting in one of their Free Ports, ie that were never even imported in Germany.
It got even sillier and tragic when one of our major manufacturer of Mechanical Ventilator, whose teams are currently working 24/7 to produce essential life-saving machines for Italy and the whole World (while German competitors won't export anymore), got shipments of components grounded in Romania due to being "medical equipment"...
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
All because the fucking bloodthirsty comunist regime of China that allowed this disease to take over. I wonder when USA and Europe will start making China responsible for all the crap they do. When they are not poluting the planet they are killing us with plagues.
English is not my main language so grammar errors might happen.
Survival of the fittest. Meaning the country with the population that adapts the best will counter a real recession effectively.
Some economists in my country expect a 5-8% drop this year. Ouchie oochie, good thing my job is kinda fired-proof.
Optimistic analyst give us a small recession this year. Other experts tell us the planned 10 billion package is nowhere near enough and we'd need a 100 billion at least.
On another note we are ramping up for home-office (no clue how I'll make it with 4 young children in a small 2 bedroom apartment...). For a lot of people here it will be a first. They are similarly trying to devise things for schools, altough there are calls to cancel the school and academic year. Apparently the French were much more prepared for that, due to the massive public service strikes they had from december to january. Reportedly in China home-office was hell.
Will we see home-office durably adopted on a large scale in the future?
On the supply chain aspect, I am reading a good number of news that companies want to diversify if not relocalize their production. Perhaps we'll see laws for that in strategic sectors...
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
JP Morgan is saying 14%.
And no, there is not supposed to be a decimal point in that number.
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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
Woah dude take it easy, you aren't allowed to point out that China using medieval wet markets filled with exotic animals and no sanitation created this virus and then their incompetent attempt to cover it up allowed it to spread... That's racist.
Feel free to blame the US and Trump in particular, however.
- World Health Organization
I'd recommend taking reading lessons, for he was very clearly refering to your darling PRC regime, and not the people they have yet again been murdering through the usual "scientific" amateurism in their thirst for power.
BTW the countries that had the most efficient response so far are Taiwan and Hong Kong, the latter even closing its border contrary to Beijing's will...
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
Imagine thinking I actually support the PRC. Can't you think up any better lies?
And when is Italy going to be blamed for being the epicenter of europe? Or does it now suddenly not count?
And for the record "china" does refer to the PRC here.
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Nothing was stopping you from closing your own borders, but I suppose that was to hard.
The US closed off entry to China and foreigners who had traveled to China recently almost seven weeks ago...
And people bitched about it, calling it racist and premature... Even the WHO criticized it...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51338899
Originally Posted by BBC
People most likely expected it to be just like SARS last time around, they were wrong. And those officials will have quite a lot to answer for.
But to be fair the trump administration answer has been to close border on a lot of issues without a lot of thought behind it. Also China has come to aid of others as it was not fellow EU member states that delivered goods to Italy but China, that is a tale of shame within the EU that is also going to be told for quite some time.
Given how denouncing the bloody incompetent communist regime in China magically translate to you into anti-chinese racism, you're making it extremely hard to guess you're not a PRC supporter.
Does calling Bashar Al-Assad the Butcher of Damas equate to being racist against Syrian and Arab people?
The PRC is the entity that currently and fleetingly happens to control most (but not all) of China.
And which effectively have it under its bloody yoke.
You are welcome.
Back to OT, supply chains drifting away from China are both a risk and opportunity to global prosperity: risk as countries might close their markets and global trade diminish like in the 30s, or opportunity as shifting and diversifying supply chains and industries to poorer countries could lift millions if not billions of people out of poverty.
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"