Economy
Tuesday 19 March 2024
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“…the U.S. has never found any evidence of TikTok posing a threat to the U.S.’ national security…”
ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 170 million users. -
“Free supplies of Russian grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea, and the Central African Republic have made a significant contribution to the fight against hunger in Africa.”
The claim that Russia's 200,000 tons of grain would significantly contribute to fighting hunger in Africa is misleading because of the scope of the hunger problem and because Moscow has worsened the problem by backing out of the Black Sea grain deal. -
''In the case of Binance, In the last year, 26 billion dollars has passed through Binance Nigeria from sources and users who we cannot adequately identify.''
Nigeria’s Central Bank is capable of tracking illicit financial transaction but isn’t doing so because of corruption. -
"The pride of Russia is our Nobel laureates - Sechenov, Butlerov, Kantorovich, and many others."
Ivan Sechenov and Alexander Butlerov did not receive the Nobel Prize, and Leonid Kantorovich received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. -
“After delivering the first home-grown large cruise ship Adora Magic City, China has the ability to build all types of maritime ship products.”
Source: Global Times X account, Feb 13, 2024The Adora Magic City is heavily reliant on foreign technology. According to the cruise’s chief designer, only 30% of the ship was built by domestic suppliers, while the rest was sourced from Europe. -
"An EU army?... For what, then, must each NATO country (read EU) pay colossal sums to the ‘common till‘(but, in fact, to Washington), which, as declared, go to ensure their security?"
NATO's common budget is governed by its member countries’ collective decisions and serves the interests of the alliance as a whole. -
“The Cooperative Republic of Guyana recklessly violates international law, taking actions that exacerbate the territorial dispute and add to its illegal conduct of granting oil exploitation rights to Exxon Mobil over a sea area pending delimitation with Venezuela.”
Venezuela disregards the World Court and signals it could use force to settle Essequibo territorial dispute. -
“It's widely known that the U.S. firm's credit rating on China and Chinese companies are politically biased.”
Moody's downgraded China’s credit rating based on an in-depth evaluation of its financial health, economic conditions and risks. -
“It is not Russia, but Ukraine that has publicly announced that it is withdrawing from the negotiation process. Moreover, the country’s leader signed an executive order prohibiting such negotiations with Russia."
Putin started the war on Ukraine. He can end it at any time by ordering the Russian troops to withdraw and by ending the occupation. -
“…the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping 10 years ago has been a huge success and is now a widely recognized major international public goods.”
The Belt and Road Initiative has been largely successful in increasing China’s influence on the international stage, yet scientists and environmentalists warn the initiative could have immediate biophysical impacts and cause irreversible environmental damage. -
“President Irfaan Ali, enough of lies and of trying to hide the historical truth that weighs on the dispute over the Essequibo territory, whose only means of resolution, as you well know, is the Geneva Agreement of 1966.”
Guyana is adhering to the Geneva Agreement of 1966 in trying to resolve the dispute over Essequibo through the United Nations International Court of Justice. -
“MTS was the first company in Russia to present the iPhone 15 Pro Max in its flagship store a day before the start of global sales."
The Russian government uses a scheme called parallel imports to avoid bans and get sanctioned foreign goods to the domestic market. That includes the iPhone 15 sold in Russia despite Apple’s exit last year.