The Chinese Communist Party has been trying to unite Europe against the United States, but the war-wolf diplomacy has annoyed Europe. Now the EU and the U.S. have agreed to suspend their trade war and join hands to pursue the Chinese Communist Party. In addition, Germany will push the Supply Chain Law, German companies may have to withdraw from Xinjiang.
The Chinese Communist Party has always been bullying soft and fearful of strong, unbeatable to Australia, but to the United States only bowed and conceded. On Monday, the Ministry of Finance of the Communist Party of China announced that it would not raise tariffs to counter U.S. 301 measures, involving 79 kinds of goods.
After the release of China’s seventh census data, the outside world continues to question that the data cannot be self-consistent. Some netizens have exposed the inside story of data falsification when they were census takers. In addition, the data also exposed many social problems. For example, there is a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women, and 30 million bachelors cannot find a wife. The aging of the population is a serious problem, etc. Yang Xu, a commentator of Apollo.com, exclusively disclosed the insider story of not being able to get a wife in rural China.
In order to solve the demographic crisis, the Chinese Communist Party introduced the controversial “divorce cooling-off period” policy, followed by a 70% drop in China’s divorce rate in the first quarter, but experts are down on the policy.
High prices of raw materials, small and medium-sized enterprises in China: can not afford to do business
The price of raw materials on the mainland has led to a difficult survival of mainland enterprises, especially small and medium-sized micro enterprises. Some business owners lamented that the more you do, the more you lose money, and now give business can not do.
Mainland raw materials rose almost across the board, according to Huashang Towers reported that since July last year, the construction and decoration industry used materials from gypsum board, plates, pipes, wires to concrete, light steel keel, etc. without exception, and more than one price increase. Mr. Wang, the person in charge of a decoration company in Hangzhou, said that he signed with customers in the year before the single, could have earned 10%, but now all the material price increases, the cost can not be recovered, the loss can only be borne by themselves.
The main raw materials used in the edible oil industry soybean oil and vegetable oil from the second half of last year prices are doubling, soybean oil from the lowest 4,000 yuan / ton last year to nearly 10,000 yuan / ton in April; vegetable oil in May to June last year, the lowest price of 7,000 yuan / ton, has now also risen to 12,000 yuan / ton or so.
The cows in a farm in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, eat the same feed every day, but the owner has to pay 10 yuan more for a cow’s meal every day.
An enterprise in Dongguan, which produces 500 million cans a year, started work this year and found that the unit price of iron for production rose from more than 5,000 yuan/ton to more than 9,000 yuan/ton.
According to the Securities Times, as of March this year, 57 major commodities, 30 commodities rose by more than 10%, crude oil, polymeric MDI, broadleaf rubber and other 11 commodities rose by more than 30%, pure benzene rose by more than 50% during the year, the price of copper, which is widely used in industry, rose from 35,000 yuan / ton in March 2020, once exceeded 70,000 yuan / ton, a record an all-time high.
One appliance industry source said, “This is the most unusual price increase in the last decade or so!”
Spot so, futures are also rising, according to the mainland e company reported on May 10, the mainland futures market, iron ore, rebar, hot-rolled coils one after another, so far this year, the mainland has 20 varieties of futures rose more than 20%, of which 10 varieties rose more than 30%, respectively, are styrene, glass, hot coils, rebar, iron ore, power coal, crude oil, PVC and Shanghai aluminum.
The price of raw materials has made mainland small and medium-sized enterprises struggle and struggle.
The report said that in April, the head of a deep glass processing company in Guangdong revealed that glass prices rose from a minimum of 1,200 yuan/ton in 2020 to more than 2,400 yuan/ton, and many fewer customers placed orders, originally spring and summer is the peak season for glass sales, but this year the factory is cold and clear.
More companies are choosing to take the initiative to cut production capacity, there is a single also do not accept. Because it is difficult to absorb the pressure of rising raw materials alone, some small and medium-sized enterprises can only sell a limited number of customers to 1000 pieces of goods, only 100 pieces of goods sent.
Some business owners said: “The price of raw materials soared, has received the basic orders are losing money, is now in the hard to carry, new orders are afraid to take.”
Raw material prices have been transmitted to some of the downstream commodities. Since March this year, TCL, Hisense, the United States, Zhigao and other home appliance companies, the off-season in the home appliance industry announced a collective price increase, ranging from 10% to 15%. Edible oil, tires, paper towels are the whole line of price increases.
In the face of rising raw materials, large enterprises can increase the price of goods, but small businesses mentioned price increases may face the pressure of elimination. The head of an edible oil manufacturer said, “I dare not raise prices too much, the result of price increases is a decline in demand, which is equivalent to giving up market share to competitors.”
According to reports, the orders that small and medium-sized enterprises are afraid to take are likely to flow to the head enterprises. These head enterprises have more bargaining power in front of the upstream raw material distributors, there are also some head enterprises with their own strength and scale can sign long-term price agreements with suppliers to reduce the impact of rising raw material prices.
But the risk resistance of small and medium-sized enterprises is weak, but also in the financing, public resource sharing, social concerns and other aspects of the marginal end, a large market fluctuations and risks, small and medium-sized enterprises are often the first to bleed, and the least likely to be replenished.
An analyst said in this regard: “Every time when there are huge fluctuations in commodities, it is the time for big factories to do big market share.”
The U.S. and Europe want a trade truce and join forces to hold the Chinese Communist Party responsible for “distorting trade policies”
The United States and Europe have taken another step toward a trade truce, with both sides issuing a joint statement saying they will hold tariff talks to end tit-for-tat tariffs on steel and aluminum products between them, while joining forces to hold countries like China accountable for their “distorted trade policies.
According to the Central News Agency, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and EU Executive Committee Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis issued a carefully worded statement on May 17, announcing that the two sides will hold tariff talks on “global steel and aluminum surplus issues. The EU is scheduled to hold discussions on the “global surplus of steel and aluminum products” and will hold countries like China responsible for “distorting trade policies”.
The EU was scheduled to raise tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the U.S. on June 1, but after communications between the two sides, they said in a statement that the U.S. and EU members are allies and partners and share the same national security interests, such as democracy and market economies, the report said. They (the U.S. and EU) are aligned to promote high standards to address common concerns. The EU thus said it would cancel this tax increase.
In return, the U.S. agreed to engage in a dialogue with the EU on the issue of overproduction of steel and aluminum products.
Both sides mentioned the problem of the Chinese Communist Party, which relies on government subsidies to dump low prices in international markets and crush steel producers in other countries, and will join forces to hold countries responsible for “distorting trade policies”.
The Ministry of Finance of the Communist Party of China announced: no tariff increase to counter the U.S. 301 measures, involving 79 kinds of goods
The website of the Ministry of Finance of the Communist Party of China (CPC) published on Monday a notice issued by the Tariff Commission of the State Council, which extended the exclusion period for 79 items of goods, including gold ore and rare earth metal ores, from the fourth extension of the list of goods subject to tariffs imposed by the Chinese side on the United States.
The Tariff Commission of the State Council of the Communist Party of China said in the announcement that the second exclusion list of the second batch of Chinese tariff-raising commodities against the United States will expire on May 18, and the exclusion period will be extended for the 79 items concerned in accordance with the procedure. From May 19 to December 25 this year, the Chinese side continues not to raise the tariffs imposed to counter the U.S. 301 measures.
Germany will push the “Supply Chain Law”, German companies may have to exit the Xinjiang
Germany is working on a new “Supply Chain Law” that will allow domestic companies working with China to be fined or even prosecuted for criminal liability if they are proven to be involved in forced labor practices in Xinjiang.
German media “Süddeutsche Zeitung” cited a report by the German Green Party, pointing out that after the “supply chain law” comes into effect, if there is forced labor in the cooperation, German companies have the responsibility to cut off business relations with Chinese suppliers, otherwise German companies will face fines; in particular, employees of the company may have to bear personal criminal responsibility. Once the Supply Chain Law comes into force, offending German companies will be forced to terminate their operations in Xinjiang or withdraw their investments altogether, the report said.
Photo: Uyghurs in Germany protest the Chinese government’s genocide against Uyghurs in front of the German Foreign Ministry during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Germany on Sept. 1, 2020.
The Supply Chain Act assessment cites media reports that many foreign companies, including German ones, have benefited from the exploitation of Uighurs in Xinjiang. Some German companies have factory buildings in China that were built near Xinjiang concentration camps. German companies named in the report include Adidas, Puma, BMW, Bosch, Siemens, Volkswagen and BASF, which are accused of making various “denials or vague concessions” in response to allegations of human rights problems in Xinjiang.
Margaret Bowser, the Green Party’s federal parliamentary spokeswoman on human rights policy, said the assessment sent a clear message: “Turning a blind eye is not an option.
Unlike the German federal parliament, the Canadian, Dutch and British parliaments have designated China’s actions in Xinjiang as genocide. On Monday, the German Federal Parliament’s Human Rights Committee will hold a hearing to discuss the situation in Xinjiang.
Who should hate China’s 30 million bachelors the most, as Communist census takers expose themselves as fakers?
The Communist Party’s 2020 census data, despite half a year of “embellishment,” still does not conceal the demographic crisis. In addition to the obvious aging trend, the census data shows that there are 34.9 million more men than women.
The Communist Party’s decades-long family planning policy has led to a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women, and in recent years, the situation of men of marriageable age has become increasingly serious, with “30 million bachelors” and “40 million bachelors” often seen on the Internet. The Communist Party’s 2020 census results partly confirm this claim.
The census data released by the authorities on May 11 showed that there are 34.9 million more men than women in the population. This is six months after the Communist Party’s statistics bureau “embellished” the results, and the real situation remains a mystery.
On May 17, Fu Linghui, spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China, said at a press conference in response to the claim that there were more than 30 million bachelors, that there were only 17.52 million more men than women in the marriageable age group of 20-40 years old, with a sex ratio of 108.9.
The net rumor suggests that not only does the National Bureau of Statistics need to do the final “processing” of the data, but it is possible that from the very beginning of the census, the most grassroots census takers have already begun to falsify. The netizen who exposed the inside story said.
Photo: Screenshot of a Chinese netizen’s exposé.
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