‘Directly Responsible’: Mnuchin Slaps Carrie Lam With Sanctions As US-China Tensions Soar
With tensions running higher than ever following Donald Trump’s pair of executive orders targeting TikTok, WeChat, and their parent companies,Continue Reading
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‘Shocked’
“We are shocked by the recent Executive Order, which was issued without any due process”, TikTok said, in a blogContinue Reading
Trump Makes TikTok Ban Official, Takes Aim At WeChat, Tencent In Latest Broadside
Donald Trump made it official on Thursday evening. He signed an executive order aimed at compelling ByteDance to divest TikTok,Continue Reading
Meanwhile, In China
The market remained focused on stimulus talks in Washington Wednesday, with some manner of deal between The White House andContinue Reading
Trump To Drop Hammer On TikTok As Microsoft Said To Show Interest
After months of speculation, Donald Trump will move to force TikTok parent ByteDance to sell the popular video app, markingContinue Reading
Thoughts, Prayers, And Precious Metals
Friday picked up where Thursday left off — with a spate of wildly bad macro data, courtesy of heinous secondContinue Reading
All Is Not Well In The World
All did not feel “right” in the world Thursday, despite Jerome Powell’s assurances that the Fed has no intention ofContinue Reading
Arresting Developments
“She’ll make her initial appearance in court later today”, US officials told reporters Friday, after authorities arrested Tang Juan, aContinue Reading
‘Let’s Renovate It Into A Hotpot Restaurant!’ Chengdu Over And Out
The US it “totally responsible” for the deterioration in bilateral relations, China said Friday, in the course of closing theContinue Reading
Mike Pompeo: Xi Jinping Is A Tyrant Who Will Subjugate Our Grandchildren
“President Nixon once said he feared he had created a ‘Frankenstein’ by opening the world to the CCP”, Mike PompeoContinue Reading
Spies Everywhere!
It’s a good thing markets no longer trouble themselves which such trivial matters as rapidly deteriorating relations between the world’sContinue Reading
We’ll Take 100 Million (Assumptions Questioned)
“Yes, we’ll take 100 million of them, please”. The US government plans to pay nearly $2 billion to Pfizer forContinue Reading
‘Exactly What We Don’t Need’: US-China Escalation Threatens To Derail Stimulus-Fueled Rally
A new, and potentially serious escalation on the geopolitical front put risk assets on the back foot early Wednesday inContinue Reading
In ‘Unprecedented Escalation,’ Trump Evicts China From Houston Consulate
A day after accusing Beijing of providing support to malicious hackers, the US has forcibly closed China’s Houston consulate, aContinue Reading