From the U.S. to Europe, financial markets are caught in a giant 'prisoner's dilemma'
2023-03-20: Wen Jing Zhang Tao Lu Si Yuan (China Construction Bank Financial Market Department, personal view only)
The banking crisis, triggered by a run on US banks in Silicon Valley, is still unfolding and has quickly spread to Europe, especially since two events last weekend epitomized this upheaval.
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Hong Kong media: Daigou reversed, young people in Hong Kong are obsessed with mainland Internet celebrity food
2023-03-20: The reference news network reported on March 20. According to Hong Kong "Xing Tao Daily" website reported on March 19, time-shift easy, in the past, mainland people love Hong Kong brands, through purchasing to Hong Kong sweeping goods, but with the rise of e-commerce, Hong Kong purchasing scene has become
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Foreign media: report says more than 9,000 Ukrainians escaped conscription abroad through "special means" last year
2023-03-20: According to a report by the Ukrainian Parliament's Provisional Investigative Committee, more than 9,000 Ukrainians will leave the country as volunteers in 2022 to avoid conscription, according to the website of the Russian newspaper on March 19.
According to the report, Ukraine is currently in a state
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Korean media: Statistics show that there are more and more "40-year-old brides" in South Korea
2023-03-20: According to statistics released on March 20 by the National Statistics Portal of the Statistics Office of Korea, women aged 40-44 (10,949) outnumbered women aged 20-24 (10,113) in 2022.
According to reports, in 2021, the number of women aged 40-44 married (10,412) exceeded the 20-24 age group (9,985)
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British media: Germany needs to speed up to make up for economic shortcomings
2023-03-20: On March 15, the website of The Economist published an article titled "Germany is finally addressing its long-standing economic weakness." The full text is excerpted below:
Germany has been too slow to decarbonize and digitize its economy and address the acute shortage of skilled workers, which affects
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Russian media: Afghan authorities issue cannabis cultivation ban
2023-03-20: According to the website of the Russian newspaper on March 18, the Taliban's supreme leader Ahunzada imposed a ban on cannabis cultivation throughout Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid posted on Twitter the text of the order signed by Akhunzada.
The tweet read: "Cannabis cultivation
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Iraq, Iran sign deal to boost border security
2023-03-20: Baghdad, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement on the same day, Reuters reported. Iraqi officials said the move was mainly aimed at tightening Iran's border with Iraq's Kurdish region. Tehran says dissident Kurdish militants in Iraq's Kurdish region pose a threat to Iran's
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Imran Khan charged with terrorism by Pakistani police
2023-03-20: Islamabad, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Police in Pakistan's capital city have charged former Prime Minister Imran Khan, 17 aides and dozens of supporters with terrorism and several other charges, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The day before, followers of the deposed prime minister clashed with security
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Korean media: South Korea's first private rocket launches in Brazil
2023-03-20: According to the Yonhap news agency in Seoul on March 20, the launch vehicle "Han Kwang-TLV" independently developed by South Korean space startup INNOSPACE was launched at 2: 52 p.m. local time on March 19 at the Alcantara Launch Center belonging to the Brazilian Air Force.
For its part, the South
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Poll: "Lula is off to a good start"
2023-03-20: Lula's approval rating stands at 41 percent two and a half months after taking office as president of Brazil, higher than that of his predecessor Bolsonaro (34 percent) during the same period, according to a poll conducted by Ipec published on March 19 by Brazilian newspaper El Universal.
The poll
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French media: Colombian president announces resumption of military operations against drug cartels
2023-03-20: Bogota, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended a December 31 ceasefire agreement between him and the Gulf Help, the country's main drug cartel, over attacks on civilians, AFP reported on March 20.
Gustavo Petro wrote on Twitter, "I have ordered the security forces to restart
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Russian media: Poland may not be able to hand over MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine
2023-03-20: Poland has been unable to hand over a batch of warplanes it previously obtained from Germany to Ukraine, as promised, because Germany does not allow it to do so, Russian news website Novosibirsk reported on March 20.
It was reported that Poland had not consulted the German side in advance about providing
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Wyoming enacts new law banning abortion pills
2023-03-20: Wyoming 17 became the first state in the United States to ban the use of abortion drugs, adding momentum to growing efforts by conservative states and anti-abortion groups to target medicinal abortions, the New York Times reported on March 20.
Currently, most methods of terminating a pregnancy in the
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Foreign media: Ecuador's foreign minister criticizes Argentina's "broken promise"
2023-03-20: Tensions between Ecuador and Argentina continue to rise over the flight of a minister under former Ecuadorian President Correa, according to the Spanish newspaper Le Monde on March 19.
The political and diplomatic crisis between Ecuador and Argentina has continued to worsen in recent days due to growing
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Henry Kissinger: Major changes are taking place in the strategic landscape of the Middle East
2023-03-20: The reference news network reported on March 20. The Washington Post website published an article on March 16 entitled "How China heralded the beginning of a multipolar Middle East," by David Ignatius, a columnist for the newspaper. The full text is excerpted below:
Henry Kissinger must have felt dj
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British media: The United States learned nothing from the Iraq war
2023-03-20: The Guardian published an article on March 18 entitled "The United States is ready to bomb the Middle East into its own pattern, but in Ukraine, the United States seems equally selfish," by Randip Ramesh, the paper's chief writer. The full text is excerpted below:
In the 20 years since the Second Iraq
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The Japanese Ministry of Defense deployed missiles here, and the islanders opposed it!
2023-03-20: According to Kyodo News Agency on March 18, Japan's Ministry of Defense brought missiles and other ammunition to the newly established Land Self-Defense Force Ishigaki Station in Ishigaki Island (Ishigaki City) in Okinawa Prefecture. As one of the so-called measures to strengthen the defense of the southwestern
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Japanese media: Japan commemorates the 28th anniversary of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack
2023-03-20: Japan commemorated the 28th anniversary of the Tokyo Metro sarin gas incident on March 20, according to Kyodo News Agency.
On March 20, 1995, followers of the cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas on trains on multiple lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 14 people and injuring more than 6,000 others.
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UK, Japan agree to space defense cooperation
2023-03-20: Britain and Japan agreed on March 17 to cooperate in space, the latest move to deepen defense ties between the two countries, according to a Reuters report on March 20. The two countries are working together on a new type of fighter jet.
17 (UPI) -- Britain said it signed an agreement with Japan to
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US media: Hay fever season is getting earlier and longer
2023-03-20: The CNN website recently published an article titled "Your pollen allergy is serious? Here's why," written by Rachel Ramirez. Excerpts are as follows:
It's only early March now, but in the southern and eastern United States, pollen in the air has sent tears running down the air.
Pollen levels climbed
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