- Shrinking population. Record property downturn. Rising trade tensions. And now a $6 trillion stock market wipeout. The list of problems just keeps growing for Xi Jinping’s China. (Bloomberg)
- China's Evergrande Group, the developer at the center of the country's property crisis, is heading for liquidation after a Hong Kong court ordered it to be wound up.
- US President Joe Biden faces intensifying pressure to confront Iran directly after the country’s proxies killed three American soldiers in a drone strike in Jordan over the weekend, risking precisely the wider regionalconflict that he’s trying to avoid.
- “All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.” John Steinbeck
Problem with these
notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition -
the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.
Btw, humans can only
think about 4 things at once – according to the research team led by University
of Oregon psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel. So, to help, we
limit notes. 😉
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