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"Hong Kong (CNN Business)African swine fever has wiped out a third of China's pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world's largest pork market."

By Laura He, CNN Business

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China could release emergency pork reserves after losing 100 million pigs to swine fever

African swine fever has wiped out a third of China's pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world's largest pork market.
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Coronavirus sparks biggest Chinese stock crash since 2015

The Shenzen Component index fell 11.6% and the Shanghai Composite index dropped 7.7% in the first trading session for over a week.
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Risks Mount for Hong Kong After Economy Shrank in 2019

(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The hits just keep coming for Hong Kong.In 2019, there was the escalating U.S.-China trade war, which squeezed exports. Then came violent protests beginning mid-year, with...
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Coronavirus Hammers Bulk Shipping

(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus crisis in China has hammered many markets this month. None may have felt a bigger impact than freight. Rates for giant Capesize ships, typically used to carry raw materials such...
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China to allow in U.S. health experts as virus shows no sign of slowing

(This Feb. 3 story corrects paragraph six to show possible cut could be 500,000 bpd, not one third)
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‘NO REASON’ FOR TRAVEL CURBS

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking in Geneva, again said travel bans were unnecessary.

“There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade,” he told the WHO’s Executive Board.

“We call on all countries to implement decisions that are evidence-based and consistent.”
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the WHO may be looking for a new D-G in the near future.


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Trump says U.S. has 'shut down' coronavirus threat; China shuns U.S. help

The United States has taken decisive action to protect Americans from the threat of a fast-moving coronavirus while offering help to China, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, but a key adviser said Beijing had not accepted the offers of assistance.
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Pakistan resumes flights to and from China, screens passengers for virus

Pakistan said on Monday it was resuming flights to and from China, three days after it suspended them because of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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China said on Saturday its foreign minister, Wang Yi, had raised travel restrictions in a telephone call with Pakistan’s foreign minister.
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Far from virus epicentre, China's Wenzhou city scrambles to curb outbreak

Far from the coronavirus epicentre, the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, a major commercial hub with a population of about 3.5 million, is scrambling to contain its own local outbreak.
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Stocks rally as China markets reopen, dollar gains

The dollar strengthened and a gauge of global stocks jumped on Monday, lifted by an unexpected rebound in U.S. manufacturing that helped temper fears that caused stocks overnight in Asia to plunge on the potential impact of the coronavirus in China.
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Orionblamblam said:
Richard N said:
"A country that YouTubed itself into a 21st Century measles outbreak ...."
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Modest important difference: anti-vaxxers in the West are individuals... *not* an all-powerful government.
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Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.
 
DWG said:
Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.
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Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.
 
Orionblamblam said:
DWG said:
Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.
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Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.
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A rather moot point if you or a loved one suffered, maimed or died because of idiocy.
And this a distinction that largely exists in your own head (wtf is “national idiocy”?) and is a near complete irrelevance and side-show to the actual topic.
 
kaiserd said:
A rather moot point if you or a loved one suffered, maimed or died because of idiocy.
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Not really. It's an issue of national or governmental policy vs individual choices. Just as a loved one getting whacked by a street thug is quite a different thing than them getting rounded up by the secret police and sent to a death camp. A tragedy either way, but very different otherwise.
 
Orionblamblam said:
DWG said:
Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.
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Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.
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Depends how it works out. *cough*Brexit*cough*
 
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China virus claims second life off mainland, Macau casinos told to close

The coronavirus outbreak claimed its first life in Hong Kong on Tuesday, compounding the international financial centre's problems after anti-government protests, and Macau, the world's biggest gambling playground, urged casinos to shut their doors.
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iPhone shortages predicted to hit US as coronavirus causes chaos in supply chain amid quarantines and axed flights

A TOP tech analyst has predicted that Apple could be hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, slashing his estimate for iPhone sales in the first quarter. Ming-Chi Kuo, known by some as the world̵…
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Grey Havoc said:
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iPhone shortages predicted to hit US as coronavirus causes chaos in supply chain amid quarantines and axed flights

A TOP tech analyst has predicted that Apple could be hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, slashing his estimate for iPhone sales in the first quarter. Ming-Chi Kuo, known by some as the world̵…
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Oh no! Cheap consumer crap might become slightly more difficult to obtain! The west might be forced to build up its own industrial capability in response!
 
Orionblamblam said:
DWG said:
Orionblamblam said:
Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.
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Depends how it works out. *cough*Brexit*cough*
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Sure. The UK willingly signing on to become a vassal state of the EU was national insanity, but they seem to have finally hauled themselves out of it. Consequently, the UK may well be in a better position to deal with new pandemics since they now might have some measure of control over their borders and immigrants/visitors.
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A classic of example of why it’s better not to engage with trolls (especially far-right trolls) on the Internet.
 
Orionblamblam said:
The UK willingly signing on to become a vassal state of the EU was national insanity
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Just like Texas joining the US?

The Russians must be laughing into their vodka at what the useful idiots like Farage and Rees Mogg have wrought. Remember, Boris still hasn't released the dossier on Russian funding of the Conservative Party (though it was supposed to come out in January).
 
I think this topic has run its course. It's very off topic, and now is going off-topic from the off-topic.
 
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