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Wilbur Ross says coronavirus could bring jobs back to the US from China

Wilbur Ross and the Cabinet of Billionaires - Bloomberg

US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will help “accelerate the return of jobs to North America”.

“Well, first of all, every American’s heart has to go out to the victims of the coronavirus. So, I don’t want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate, very malignant disease. But the fact is, it does give businesses yet another thing to consider when they go through their review of their supply chain,” Ross said during an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo.
“On top of all the other things, because you had Sars, you had the African swine virus there, now you have this,” Ross continued. “It’s another risk factor that people need to take into account. So, I think it will help accelerate the return of jobs to North America, some to the US, probably some to Mexico as well.”

The most famous quote from this idiot, he will regret it for the rest of his life.

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How the U.S. Regime and Its Allies Enforce Their Smears and Their Other Lies

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/27/how-us-regime-and-its-allies-enforce-their-smears-and-their-other-lies/?fbclid=IwAR1fXEtLiPQbbfZEOJI6EtOGsAHceddgEBC_6DceTxsM_B_3IaLJ49xLhlE Without enforced suppression of truth, there would be no way that the U.S. and its allied regimes could continue hiding the lies that were behind their invasions of Iraq in 2003, and of Syria since 2012, and their coup against Ukraine in 2014, and also of their takeovers and attempted takeovers of other countries that had refused to be bullied by the U.S. regime into complying with its obsessive anti-Russian demands — America’s subterranean continuation of the Cold War, even after Russia had quit the Cold War in 1991.

All of the lies are still being propounded by the U.S. regime and remain fully enforced by suppression of the truth about these matters. That’s being done in all news-media except a few of the non-mainstream ones.

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Scale of China’s Wuhan Shutdown Is Believed to Be Without Precedent

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/asia/coronavirus-quarantines-history.html?fbclid=IwAR16PeY8kR5guyW_e8FIAOnfL8Vq0oD0r5_f66eTOiQdXgnWGIm-sS23dTA

New York Times revisited, “James G. Hodge Jr., director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University, said the shutdown would almost certainly lead to human rights violations and would be patently unconstitutional in the United States.”In sealing off a city of 11 million people, China is trying to halt a coronavirus outbreak using a tactic with a complicated history of ethical concerns.

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China on its way to end poverty by 2020

During the last four decades, China has been praised worldwide for its economic growth represented by a series of impressive numbers. Among this data, China is frequently shown as the leading Asian country in terms of the number of billionaires created each year as a consequence of capital shifting from West to East. Cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen have constantly climbed up the rankings of cities where the highest number of millionaires and billionaires live and work.

This glittering data cannot hide the fact that China is still a developing country where poverty remains present, especially in rural areas and the western part of the country. The latest data released on Feb 15 of this year by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics show that at the end of 2018, there were over 16 million people living below the official poverty line.

According to the goals of China’s government, poverty reduction will have been accomplished when standards such as access to food, clothing, compulsory education for children, basic medical treatment and good living conditions are all met.

In order to deliver these goals by 2020, China should lift out of poverty an average of 8 million rural residents each year from now to 2020. The country has seen a steady decline in the number of impoverished rural residents from nearly 100 million in late 2012 to 16 million by the end of 2018, as shown in data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics. By the end of 2019, this number should be around 6 million and reach zero by the end of 2020.

Most of the poor in China live in the countryside, where farming is generally the only form of employment. One option could be migration to big cities, which have the best job opportunities, but the household registration system or hukou creates a lot of limitations, such as living conditions in the outskirts of the cities and restricted access to schools for children.

The elimination of rural poverty represents without a doubt one of the main policy goals of President Xi Jinping. Last year it was identified, along with financial risk and curbing pollution, as one of the “three tough battles” for controlling economic policy, and it was also central to the commitment of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held in October 2015 to deliver a “moderately prosperous society” by 2021, when the CPC will celebrate its centenary.

The government has in the last few years strongly increased its financial support, and local government funding has also been part of the equation. Financial institutions such as the Agricultural Development Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China and Rural Credit Co-operative have increased their contributions of issued loans for relevant projects.

Local and provincial levels have been given political pressure, as the central government has set poverty alleviation as an indicator that government officials are evaluated on, besides GDP and social stability. In order to avoid any shortcuts, government officials have been forbidden from simply distributing funds without finding ways of reaching sustainable and steady income streams.

The strategy deployed by the government is to go for the final mile toward full eradication by targeting individual households in need of support, instead of whole villages, counties or provinces. In this way the funds provided at a discounted rate by government and financial institutions will be utilized for building rural infrastructure and will encourage self-development, creating sustainability through a mass entrepreneurship and innovation campaign.

If China is able to accomplish its 2020 goal, it will be 10 years ahead of schedule to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’ target of ending global poverty by 2030.

China’s contribution to global poverty reduction has been remarkable during the last four decades, having lifted out of poverty over 700 million people, more than the entire population of Europe, and serving as an example for countries afflicted by the same problem, such as those in Africa.

When poverty is officially eliminated, it will certainly become one of the most important legacies of President Xi and a very admirable one, since poverty eradication is a common goal for humankind.