Increased Shipping Rates from China

[rickca]

Here's a warning about the impact of the trade war from the new managing director of the IMF.  I guess they don't cover this on Fox News, so Trump won't get the message.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trade-war-could-cost-global-economy-700-billion-by-2020-new-imf-chief-says-2019-10-08?mod=newsviewer_click

[Superdad]

OT

[Cormorant]

SuperDad, The baby pajamas are being made by Uighurs in concentration camps.  That was in the first article I posted.

 

The face recognition, etc. technologies are being used to oppress large populations.  That was in the second article that Rickca posted.  That is what Ross was referring to in his comment, technologies of oppression.

 

China decoupling continues...

 

 

 

 

[Superdad]

2 hours ago, Cormorant said:

SuperDad, The baby pajamas are being made by Uighurs in concentration camps. 

 

Truly awful no doubt.

[Cormorant]

43 minutes ago, Superdad said:

 

Truly awful no doubt.

 

Indeed.

 

So there are two different trade initiatives here.  The first is to block imports from firms using child labor or forced labor, either in China or elsewhere.  The second initiative is a blacklist of certain Chinese high tech firms so that U.S. companies cannot do business with them without government approval.