Report: White House May Sanction China over Cyberattacks
The White House may activate targeted sanctions against companies and individuals in China as part of a comprehensive response against Beijing’s cyber attacks on U.S. industry.
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China and Russia Build Massive Database from Hacks to Use Against America
According to U.S. officials cited by the L.A. Times, China and Russia are cross-indexing the mountain of data stolen in the Office of Personnel Management hack earlier this year with other major data breaches, including stolen airline bookings and the Ashley Madison subscriber database, to identify intelligence officials, their agents, and assets.
China: Journalist ‘Confesses’ to Causing Panic by Reporting on Stock Market
Chinese journalist Wang Xiaolu has been arrested and has “confessed” to causing the stock market to crash in what the nation is calling its “Black Monday” last week. State media outlet Xinhua reports that nearly 200 others were also arrested for “causing panic” by “spreading rumors” in publications or on social media.
Communists Swindled China’s Working Poor With Stock Propaganda
One of the important lessons to take away from China’s stock market crash is a lesson nobody on Earth should need repeated: communists lie.
Maher: Trump’s China Rhetoric ‘The Way Hitler Used To Talk About The Jews’
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks about China “the way Hitler used to talk about the Jews” on Friday. Maher stated, while talking about one of Trump’s speeches on Tuesday, “Then he goes
China Blames U.S. Federal Reserve for Market Crisis
You might think, as many investors do, that a loss of confidence in Beijing caused the Chinese market rout, but Beijing thinks you’ll find the real culprits along the banks of the Potomac.
Marco Rubio: Obama Shouldn’t Cancel Chinese President Visit
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sen. Marco Rubio called for President Obama to downgrade rather than cancel his planned state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, arguing that it was still important to communicate the interests of the United States.
Politico: China’s Implosion Could be Worse Than the Spanish Empire
The Chinese turmoil roiling markets right now presents a fresh and profound challenge to the world economy: For the first time, a giant, non-European superpower threatens world financial stability and the powers that be seem at a loss. If the IMF and World Bank have stumbled with Greece, how are they going to get a hold on the stock market travails of Communist China? What tools do we even have to affect how it plays out?
Rubio: Tyranny the Source of World Instability — Cites N Koreans, China, Russia, Radical Islam, Iran
In an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination, took aim at China, putting the Asia nation in the same category with other “tyrannies” in the world, which he
Chinese Media Puts Blackout on Reports of National Financial Meltdown
As China’s stock market meltdown continues to worry the world’s financial markets, media outlets everywhere are rife with the story. Everywhere, that is, but China itself, where the communist government there has placed a blackout on the financial story.
WATCH: Sinkhole Swallows Up Pedestrians in China
At least four people have been injured after a sinkhole opened up beneath their feet at a bus stop in China. The sinkhole appeared in the pavement on Guxiang Avenue in the city of Harbin in the north of the
Chinese Market Closes Down Despite Rate Cuts
The Chinese market crisis has been described as a loss of investor confidence prompted by Beijing’s search for innovative new ways to control China’s economy.
China’s Stock Market Crisis Continues
Investors hope the U.S. and European markets are stabilizing after Monday morning’s free fall, but China’s stock market dropped again on Tuesday. It looks as if the parachutes are finally popping, as the AP reports the Shanghai Composite rallied from a 6.4% drop on Tuesday morning to a 4.3% loss by midday. This follows an 8.5% plunge on Monday, the worst performance in eight years.
U.S. Moves Nuclear-Capable B-2 Bombers to Keep North Korea in Check
The weekend’s crisis on the Korean peninsula ultimately ended with North Korea expressing “regret” over the severe injury of two South Korean soldiers by land mines in the DMZ, while South Korea agreed to turn off the propaganda loudspeakers that had infuriated the North and led to declarations that it was preparing for all-out war.
AP: China’s Biggest Export – Fear
WASHINGTON (AP) — China is exporting something new to the world economy: Fear.
Britain’s Stock Market Stages Recovery, Europe Too
From Reuters: LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index jumped on Tuesday, recovering some of the ground lost in the previous session when it hit multi-year lows on concerns about China’s economy. The blue-chip FTSE 100 was up 2.8
Trump: China’s Pres Should Get McDonald’s On Visit, US Should Have Put Tariff on Chinese Goods
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would give China’s president a McDonald’s burger when he comes to visit, and the US should have put a tariff on Chinese goods to stop its currency devaluation on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on
China’s ‘Black Monday’ Becomes Everyone’s Stock Market Headache
One of the big problems with allowing an authoritarian communist/crony-capitalist regime to become a world financial leader is that they lie about everything. China’s long-concealed economic woes finally became impossible to hide, and we got a worldwide market panic that sent the
Scott Walker: Cancel Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Upcoming Visit
While campaigning in South Carolina, GOP presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker released a statement calling for the Chinese President’s state visit to the United States to be canceled.
Russia, China Engage in War Games in Sea of Japan
Russia and China began their Joint Sea 2015 II exercises in the Sea of Japan with 22 vessels, 20 aircraft, and 40 armored vehicles. The exercises occur just off the coast of Vladivostok
Trump Points To Market Plunge As Reason To ‘Vote Trump’
With Monday’s market crash, Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump called on Americans to heed his warnings about China and “Vote Trump.”
Mike Huckabee: ‘Quit Importing Cheap Labor’
As White House spokesperson Josh Earnest is blaming China and Chinese policies for the on-going market crash and selloff, GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says strong economic policies aren’t built by empowering Washington, D.C. and Wall Street elites.
Carly Fiorina Says Fed ‘Easy Money Policy’ Contributed to ‘Frothy’ Market
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina weighed in on the market crash and what can be done to stop the sell off that’s occurring.
Trump: ‘Decouple’ From China, ‘You Can Have’ Flat Tax, But There Should Be ‘Graduation’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the US should “decouple” from China, and that hedge fund managers should “be taxed a fair amount of money,” and that while “you can have [a] flat tax,” “The one problem I have with
Too Much Debt: Chris Christie Blames Obama For Stock Crash
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reacted to the news of the stock market crash on Wall Street earlier today on Fox News, blaming President Obama for racking up too much national debt. “What’s happened is, because this president has run up more debt than any president in American history, that debt has been given to us in large measure by the Chinese,” he said.
