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CNN claimed to break big news Monday. According to leaked documents from Chinese authorities verified by six independent experts including a forensic analysis of the files, China deliberately underreported the severity of its early coronavirus outbreak in the Hubei province.
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This sharp slowdown is largely due to the prices of food products, particularly pork, the most widely consumed meat in China, which fell 2.8% year on year in October. This is the first drop in pork prices for 19 months in a country hit by an African swine fever epidemic that has decimated the herd. This crisis has caused a doubling of pork prices in recent years.
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This year in the Middle Empire, there has been "more wealth created than the previous five years combined," despite the epidemic, the Hurun ranking says.
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China pledged to buy an additional $ 200 billion in US goods over two years, and achieved a real record of overseas purchases (its trade surplus slumped to $ 37 billion from 58.9 billion dollars). the previous month), but all this was not enough. In September, the Asian giant's surplus with Uncle Sam increased further by $ 30.75 billion, according to figures released Tuesday by Chinese Customs, the last before the November 3 presidential election. That is an increase of 18.8% over one year!