Australia s Hawke, American Informant – The Diplomat thediplomat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thediplomat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MacroBusiness
Access Subscriber Only Content
at 12:00 pm on July 7, 2021 | 12 comments
For those you living under a rock, Bill Bishop is the China export that runs Sinocism, the best daily China news and analysis source on the web.
Bishop has deep knowledge, is very balanced in his views and access to the best of the best material and people.
Today he pulls no punches following last week’s Nuremberg rally in Beijing:
Bishop: I watched the speech live, between the content of the speech and the overall setting I am now more concerned than ever about where things are headed. I also heard the speech as perhaps the most coherent argument for more pervasive and painful decoupling than anyone has yet made. Depressing. This section is I believe the essence of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy
CLIMATE CHANGE
Two people walk through a large puddle during a heavy downpour of rain at Glasgow Green Picture: Colin Mearns LAST week I spent two hours on the sand at Troon, wearing Factor 30 sunscreen, and came away burned to bright throbbing crimson. On Sunday, at the allotment, there was nothing for it but to shelter in the shed as the heaven s opened and a deluge of rain poured down, leaving muddy big pools on the raised beds. It feels like it hasn t stopped raining since, battering away until city streets are rivers deep enough for children to take a dingy along. Friends, neighbours, folk in the local shops - everywhere voices are complaining about the switch from hot sun to torrential rain.
MacroBusiness
Access Subscriber Only Content
at 12:40 pm on July 5, 2021 | 9 comments
You can read the local China apologia from Xi Jinping’s cadre of local useful idiots today, Stan Grant and James Curran, both of whom continue to dodge the question: which parts of liberal democracy are they prepared to sacrifice for a better relationship with the CCP?
Or you can read this excellent piece from Ho-fung Hung, who has nicely summarised the forces at work in Cold War 2.0:
Represing Labour, empowering China
Though the lockdown in 2020 threw many workers out of work, the big fiscal stimulus, fueled by government debt and an unprecedentedly large monetary expansion, offered stimulus checks and elevated unemployment benefits to millions of Americans. In 2020, US federal spending grew by 50 percent, making the deficit share of GDP the largest since 1945, and the M2 in the economy grew by 26 percent the largest annual increase since 1943. Such fiscal and monetary expansion prevent
Prince William praised England s spectacular 4-0 win against Ukraine as a top team performance as he lead social media reaction to the Three Lions triumph.
The Duke of Cambridge said he can t wait for Wednesdays semi final against Denmark as he lauded the team s clean sheet during the match in Rome s Stadio Olimpico.
William - who is president of the Football Association - watched England s match against Germany in Wembley earlier this week with his wife Kate and their football-mad son Prince George.
But the Cambridges - like thousands of England fans - were unable to travel to Italy for the game on Saturday night because all UK arrivals needed to self-isolate for five days after arriving in Italy - which is on England s amber list.