China business report

The place isn’t for the average shopper. Yiwu is home to the world’s largest wholesale market, where global retailers look for items to stock on their own shelves. In building after cavernous building, buyers for companies big and small pick through stalls featuring hats, T-shirts, banners, face masks, baby toys, knapsacks, modeling clay and practically any other manufactured product that will delight the world’s fickle consumers. … [Read more...] about In China, an election bellwether flashes for Donald Trump

Yesterday Apple, the world’s largest tech company by market cap, had its quarterly financial call. While most of the call, as you would expect, was about hardware sales, Apple CEO Tim Cook made an interesting comment about how the pandemic is increasing the adoption of one specific type of tech in the United States: contactless mobile payments. Per Cook (via MacRumors): … [Read more...] about Tim Cook is right: Contactless payments are more popular than ever

Lelieveld hopes this research supports that realization and pushes people to do more to stem air pollution. While soon there may be a COVID-19 vaccine, there’s no vaccine for poor air or the effects of climate change. When the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, and the next pandemic comes, we may be at risk of more deaths again if we haven’t addressed pollution. “It’s extremely important that these vaccines and better cures are being developed,” he says. “But it’s also important that people realize that some of the factors that affect your health can only be dealt with if we start realizing that the way we’re treating our planet is not sustainable.” … [Read more...] about This is the unseen factor pushing the COVID-19 death count even higher

In order to continue supporting Trump at this point, one has to be engaged in not only a denial of reality but a fantastically convenient counter-narrative. Trump didn’t drop the ball every step of the way during the coronavirus crisis—the Democrats did that! Trump never used his office to enrich his family and cozy up to China—his opponent did that! … [Read more...] about Here’s something about Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Borat 2’ scene that’s even more incriminating

The nod from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) comes amid a buoyant phase of valuations in the pharma sector and frosty diplomatic ties between India and China due to military aggression in Eastern Ladakh earlier this year, leading to casualties on both sides. … [Read more...] about Gland Pharma gets Sebi approval for Rs 6,000-crore IPO, set for first listing of an Indian firm with a Chinese parent