By Ronald Kato*
When the United States’ secretary of state Mike Pompeo began his Africa trip in mid-February, it was clear that countering China’s influence on the continent was top of his agenda. Yet from…
China’s Purchasing Managers’ Indices (PMIs) are published for February, and they show the dramatic nature of the economic contraction in that month. The manufacturing PMI was at 35.7 where below 50 is contraction; the…
UPDATES ON THE FIGHT AGAINST CORONA VIRUS AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
The WHO-China Joint Mission, held a press conference in Geneva on February 26, upon its return from a nine-days trip to the Chinese Hubei and…
By William Jones*
There has been a great outpouring of sympathy for China throughout the world in the wake of the sudden outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia. The heroic efforts of the Chinese medical…
The novel coronavirus epidemic hit a global economy which is already in a recession in terms of manufacturing, industry, and trade. The international financial system is threatened at any moment with a blowout of…
By Helga Zepp-LaRouche*
The name of the German weekly magazine “Der Spiegel” actually means in English, “The Mirror.” And indeed what you see this week on the cover page of the print version of Der Spiegel—a…