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The “two sessions” in early March – the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference – took no macroeconomic action of significance, to the consternation of pundits who expected dramatic action from Beijing in the form of monetary ease, or consumption stimulus, or a property bailout.
The US House of Representatives voted 352-65 on March 13 to require TikTok’s parent company, China-based ByteDance, to sell the app or face a nationwide ban on TikTok.
The German government is under heavy pressure to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine. To be more precise, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is the one being pushed by his own defense and foreign ministers – with Annalena Baerbock, his foreign minister, giving speeches pushing for the Taurus missiles to go there.
With a few benchmarks for Chinese stocks up 20% from January lows, a debate is raging between the bulls and bears.
(Note: This report is a preview of the Asia Times Global Risk/Reward Monitor issue of March 13, 2024.)
US Special Operations Forces (SOF) have been permanently assigned to Taiwan’s frontline islands, preparing elite Taiwanese units for possible island defense and guerilla warfare operations against a Chinese invasion.
As the US ratchets up sanctions, China throws more money at its semiconductor industry. The sanctions have slowed but not stopped the advance of Chinese semiconductor manufacturing while sales of unsanctioned equipment to China have gone through the roof.
Gold continued to break price records on Friday, trading at US$2,183 an ounce at mid-afternoon, following a more dramatic rally in Bitcoin. Gold led Bitcoin in 2020 and 2021, during the Covid crisis. This time Bitcoin clearly led gold, suggesting that investors have more confidence in the high-tech alternative to the dollar.