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This is Deputy Sec. of State returning from Seoul, Mongolia and Tianjin, China visit(s)
Wang Yi Meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman
On the afternoon of July26, 2021, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yimet with U.S. DeputySecretaryof State WendySherman in Tianjin. Noting severe difficulties and challenges in China-U.S. relations, Wang Yisaid, it requires serious consideration for the U.S. side to make correct choices as to whether the bilateral ties will head to confrontation or improvement. Your visit to China is a part of mutual contact and dialogue between China and the United States, and the two sides should enhance mutual understanding, erase misunderstanding, avoid misjudgment and better manage differences via constant dialogues.
https://www.publicnow.com/view/CD92C5D072B3A02B2CAB3AB31F3A586160A66682
Carlyle Group Inc. sold by co-founder David Rubenstein since Nov 9th, 2020: $321,677,500
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1543895&tc=7
U.S. banking regulator taps official to oversee climate change risk to banks
A leading U.S. bank regulator is creating a new position specifically to monitor climate change risk at the nation’s largest banks.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced Tuesday it had created a Climate Change Risk Officer to lead the agency’s efforts to ensure banks are appropriately managing risk around climate change. The post will be filled by Darrin Benhart, a longtime OCC official who most recently helped supervise Bank of America. “Having Darrin in this newly created position will significantly expand the agency’s capacity to collaborate with stakeholders and to promote improvements in climate change risk management at banks,” said Michael Hsu, the acting comptroller of the currency, in a statement. The move by the OCC underscores how aggressively financial regulators under the Biden administration are moving to incorporate climate change as another major risk to track across the financial system.
Also on Tuesday, the OCC announced that it had joined the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System, a global group of central banks and regulators that focuses on the risks climate change could pose to the financial system. The Federal Reserve joined the same group in December, and in January, announced it had formed its own in-house team to track climate change financial risks.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-occ-climate/u-s-banking-regulator-taps-official-to-oversee-climate-change-risk-to-banks-idUSL1N2P325H
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PEACH32 USAF E-8C Joint STARS off eastern Florida from Robins AFB, GA
Twitter Suspends 2020 Election Audit Accounts For Multiple States
Twitter on Tuesday banned several accounts linked to official 2020 election audits, including Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania.
JUST IN - Twitter has just suspended the official Arizona Audit and Audit War Room accounts. pic.twitter.com/R4hOXqflHa
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) July 27, 2021
The move comes one day after former Arizona GOP Secretary of State Ken Bennett - who's serving as the Arizona Senate Republicans' liaison to an ongoing audit, raised concerns over being excluded from the process.
"I cannot be a part of a process that I am kept out of critical aspects along the way that make the audit legitimate and have integrity when we produce the final report," Bennett told conservative talkshow host James Harris. "And unfortunately, there have been too many of those situations. And the tip of the iceberg kind of came out last Friday when I was denied access to the audit."
"I can only be a part of moving forward and vouching for the final product if there's transparency in seeing the procedures and the things that are going to be used to build that final product," he added. "Do I have confidence that we can get a final product that's good? Yes."
What's Twitter worried about?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-suspends-2020-election-audit-accounts-multiple-states
Chinese stocks listed in US hammered as Beijing tightens grip
Chinese tech stocks listed in the U.S. were pummeled for a third day Tuesday after popular messaging app WeChat temporarily blocked new users from registering.
Tencent Holding’s WeChat, which is the only app to have over 1 billion users in China, temporarily suspended new user registration on the mainland until its security technology is updated to conform with "relevant laws and regulations," according to Reuters, citing a company statement. WeChat expects to be in compliance in early August.
Tencent Holdings ADR fell by as much as 7.32% in U.S. trading on Tuesday, extending their three-day decline to 19.44%.
It has recovered a bit to be at -4.11% or thereabouts'
Other U.S.-listed Chinese companies, including Alibaba Group, JD.com and Baidu, have lost between 15% and 20% during the selloff. Investors have since Friday been dumping shares of Chinese companies after a Bloomberg report suggested Beijing would ask tutoring companies to become nonprofits, which could prevent them from going public and accepting foreign capital.
Selling snowballed on Monday after Beijing over the weekend ordered tutoring companies to become nonprofits. Other directives included ensuring online platforms that own food-delivery services pay drivers above the country’s minimum wage and give them access to labor unions.
The new measures have spooked investors in Hong Kong, with the Hang Seng index plunging 9.51% over the past three sessions. The index, which on Tuesday closed at an almost eight-month low, is on the verge of bear market territory, down 19.29% from its February peak.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/chinese-stocks-listed-in-us-hammered-as-beijing-tightens-grip