US officials have said that the COVID-19 outbreak has not yet shown an impact on the US-China phase-one trade deal. With China's economy progressing steadily towards full capacity, China is likely to be willing and able to meet its purchase commitments.
The phase-one deal requires China to increase purchases of US goods and services by USD 200bn in 2020-21 against the 2017 baseline. The commitments are ambitious, but they are also backloaded: the total commitment for 2020 is a USD 76.7bn increase, compared to a USD 123.3bn increase in 2021. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on 23 Fe
Para algunos el 13 es yeta. Pero al menos no es martes. Aqui el link para escuchar el 13er episodio de La Economía en 3 minutos. Esta semana "La tasa y el dólar sucundún, sucundún"
It's really the little things I've been nostalgic for during this increasingly long time away from Tokyo, like getting a スエット and a couple of onogiri at a combini after an early morning run.
Sankei's editorial does not hold back on criticizing Abe for going missing on Covid-19, calls for suspending the Go To travel campaign among other things.
Putin has signed into law an amendment that equates calls for the alienation of Russian territory with extremism. The implication is that anyone in Russia advocating Japan’s position in the territorial dispute over S Kurils is committing an extremist act. https://www.interfax-russia.ru/main/podpisan-zakon-o-priravnivanii-otchuzhdeniya-chasti-territorii-rf-k-ekstremizmu
I confess that I don't really understand why Abe and his government have been so non-chalant about what appears to be a second wave. Some hypotheses in no particular order:
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