One of the two is lying but it’s unclear which it is because they both have a history of spewing fake news, though usually the same false narrative and in full coordination with one another. All that observers can do is make educated conjectures based on their paradigms for analyzing this crisis. A serious political scandal has […]
How badly was China’s economy hurt by Covid-19? The data suggest that the damage was quite severe. For example, in 2019, China’s GDP growth was 5.95 percent. But in 2020, GDP growth fell to 2.24 percent, a nearly 4 percent death-spiral entirely attributable to Covid-19. In 2021, China’s GDP growth rebounded to 8.45 percent, but then sharply […]
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger claim the International Organization of Francophone Nations is a tool for “political manipulation” Burkina Faso and Mali have withdrawn from the International Organization of Francophone Nations (OIF), following the example of their West African neighbor Niger, which had earlier announced its departure from the Paris-based union. The Burkinabe government justified […]
