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Showing posts with label CHINA. Show all posts

Saturday, May 9, 2020

China’s Corona Cover-Up Jolts Israel; Abbas Threatens: 'If Israel Annexes a Single Centimeter...'; Impressive Plasma Treatment Results for Israel's Sickest Corona Patients

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Global Times Daily Newsletter 20200418

China resilient amid GDP dip




    China on Friday provided the clearest and most complete picture yet of the economic cost of the deadly coronavirus, which has so far taken 4,642 Chinese lives. With first-quarter GDP shrinking 6.8 percent, the first decline since 1992 when quarterly data began to be reported, the damage amounts to an eye-popping 1.44 trillion yuan ($203.4 billion) in lost output, equivalent to the entire New Zealand economy in 2018.