President Xi visited a Beijing neighborhood on Monday, appearing in public for the first time since the outbreak began, as the total number of deaths from the virus tops 1,000 for the first time, with over 43,000 infected around the globe.
"...You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis..."
Science is the weapon of choice when dealing with something like the coronavirus, and science requires the free flow of information. The free flow of information is anathema to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes...
The massive buildup over the weekend in retaliation for five killed Turkish soldiers, included the deployment of howitzers, multiple-rocket launchers, ambulances and trucks loaded with munitions, Anadolu reported.
...news flow was on balance positive as investors bet on the coronavirus being contained fast enough to leave little impact on the economy... We take a more cautious view and believe the coronavirus could get much worse globally.
