China’s share of global luxury spending doubles amid coronavirus lockdown

China's luxury goods market has nearly doubled this year, as consumers had to spend cash inside the country due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The market is set to expand further to become the largest in the world.

Despite a rocky start to the year, during which the Chinese government had to impose a strict lockdown to contain the spread of the virus, the domestic luxury goods market has not only recovered in 2020, but also managed to expand. According to a report published by consultancy firm Bain & Co. and Tmall, an online retail platform operated by Alibaba, the Chinese luxury market is set to grow 48 percent this year and reach 346 billion yuan ($53 billion).

While the global luxury market fell around 23 percent, mainland China’s share nearly doubled. It rose from about 11 percent last year to 20 percent in 2020, as big-spending Chinese buyers switched to domestic malls and e-commerce platforms, instead of looking for discounts at international shopping hubs.

https://www.rt.com/business/509979-china-doubles-luxury-spending/

Virginia law professor raises eyebrows with suggestion to achieve racial equality DOUBLE COUNTING the votes of black people

A law professor at Virginia’s Washington and Lee University has devised a creative solution to help create a “racially just” society: double-count the votes of black people to undo America’s “structurally racist” political system.

The professor, Brandon Hasbrouck, made his argument in a new op-ed series published by progressive news platform The Nation. Hasbrouck argued that the US political system has given unfair weight to white votes, partly because predominantly white states with relatively few people, such as Wyoming, get two senators, while largely black cities can only occasionally overcome the mostly white votes from elsewhere in their states. He dismissed the fact that black votes in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia essentially won Democrat Joe Biden the November 3 presidential election, saying the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were “worryingly close.”

He graciously suggested that so-called “vote reparations” should also be extended to Native Americans, but his proposal was nevertheless roasted on social media as inherently racist.

https://www.kxan36news.com/virginia-law-professor-raises-eyebrows-with-suggestion-to-achieve-racial-equality-double-counting-the-votes-of-black-people

Racist troll Republican congressional hopeful makes waves after targeting CHINESE WIVES of McConnell Zuckerberg on Twitter

Unsuccessful Maryland congressional candidate Kimberly Kacik is being accused of “casual racism” for a head-turning Twitter thread pointing out that both Mark Zuckerberg and Mitch McConnell’s wives are “Chinese.”

“Mark Zuckerberg’s wife is Chinese. I just post facts,” Klacik tweeted on Saturday evening.

Other “facts” she pointed out to her 500,000-plus followers included that “Mitch McConnell’s wife is Chinese,”“the coronavirus is from China,” and a promise that she will run for Congress again in 2022.

Mitch McConnell’s wife is Chinese.I just post facts.

Mark Zuckerberg’s wife is Chinese. I just post facts.

Klacik, who became popular among Republican voters thanks to a viral ad of her walking through Baltimore and accusing Democrats of not caring about black lives, ran to represent Maryland’s 7th congressional district in a special April election, as well as the November election.

The Republican’s tweets targeting McConnell and Zuckerberg’s wives drew most of the criticism, with many pointing out that McConnell’s wife is from Taiwan and the Facebook founder’s spouse, Priscilla Chan, was actually born in the US.

https://www.kxan36news.com/racist-troll-republican-congressional-hopeful-makes-waves-after-targeting-chinese-wives-of-mcconnell-zuckerberg-on-twitter

Interesting how things works

Watch: Wuhan Goes from Coronavirus Central to China’s Party Town

Just 12 months ago the city of Wuhan in China was starting to show the first signs of mass coronavirus infections, before launching it onto an unsuspecting world and creating global havoc.

The city soon underwent a draconian 76-day lockdown as its hospitals struggled to deal with a tidal wave of cases that required the rapid construction of field hospitals to handle the overflow.

Today everything is different.

As Reuters reports, revelers are once more thronging the nightclubs, bars and restaurants of the central Chinese city of 11 million residents, discarding the shackles of lockdown and partying hard ready for the dawn of 2021.

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/12/20/watch-wuhan-goes-from-coronavirus-central-to-chinas-party-town/

>>12109539

>KXAN is worse than Pravda. I just post facts

IF that was true you would PROVE it …instead of talking bullshit…..kekeke

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All through your mess of dreams

You won't make it to the night

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You ain't got the weight to hate

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Hunter - Standing in My Light

HUGE: Chinese Spy Rep. Swalwell Was Sleeping With Is Pictured with Chinese Agent Who Spied on Sen. Feinstein for 20 Years

The Chinese were all over Democrat politicians in San Francisco – physically and in public.

This morning, Maria Bartoromo on FOX News reported that she saw a picture with two Chinese spies and a US Senator. The Chinese spy who was sleeping with California Representative Eric Swalwell is reportedly in the same picture as the Chinese spy who spied on Senator Diane Feinstein for 20 years:

This is getting good! pic.twitter.com/eLw5yvalEE

— Ethal Merman (@MermanEthal) December 20, 2020

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/huge-chinese-spy-rep-swalwell-sleeping-pictured-chinese-man-spied-sen-feinstein-20-years/

>>12109659

>The demoncrats are WAY ahead of this moron

1st of all it's spelled Moran..You idiot..and they've been ahead of it for over 100 years..

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence."

~ Charles Austin Beard

(1874-1948) Professor at Columbia University

>>12109700

..If memory serves Q said …The Truth is right in front of you

HCQ Helps Contain COVID-19 Cases: New Evidence and a Major Retraction

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) — the controversial COVID-19 treatment touted by President Donald Trump — might be gaining new traction in the fight against the Wuhan coronavirus.

The latest positive results come from Vadodara, India, where city officials have conducted a major study involving more than 300,000 people, including “health workers and other frontline staff.”

The Indian Express reports:

The administration has analysed a sample of over 1 lakh [lakh = 100,000] residents, who were mostly close contacts of positive persons and the effect of HCQ in containing the transmission of the virus. According to the analysis, of the 48,873 close contacts of positive patients who took one dose of HCQ, 102 turned Covid-19 positive and 12 succumbed to the infection whereas 48 of the 17,776 close contacts of positive patients who took two doses of HCQ turned positive and only one died. The study also states that of the 33,563 close contacts of patients who took three HCQ doses, 43 tested positive and one died.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2020/07/13/hcq-helps-contain-covid-19-cases-new-evidence-and-a-major-retraction-n636361

>>12109755

We Need An Operation Warp Speed To Battle Climate Change

Cleantech venter capitalist Wal van Lierop in Fobes Mag: "We have discovered that worldwide lifestyle changes are possible and have a massive impact on emissions. … If a deadly virus changed our lifestyle at Warp Speed, why can’t a deadly climate crisis do the same? … Let’s lock those changes in to reduce commuter pollution. … While we’re at it, let’s ensure that business travel never returns to its former excesses. Most of the time, there’s no reason to take one-day trips across the globe. Regular business meetings can be done more efficiently virtually, complemented by in-person contact only once in a while."

The lesson for climate change is that if we act with equal vigor, we can solve this crisis. But we need an Operation Warp Speed for the Climate. Thanks to the European and South Korean Green Deals and President-elect Joe Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan, the world is positioned to do it. Just as the original Operation Warp Speed met the need for timely new treatments and vaccines, this operation would deliver game-changing innovations for our climate crisis

https://www.forbes.com/sites/walvanlierop/2020/12/19/we-need-an-operation-warp-speed-to-battle-climate-change/?sh=19945fbb78bf

Simple Mind-Dont you forget about me(extended)

>>12109861

>, you know so much more history than me. I only studied through 2 grad degrees

You dumb FKwit…..Only 2…..Bring it on I'll make you cry….Ya lazy puzzy..

Feds Bust Massive Drug Ring at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Appalachian State

“These are 21 hardened drug dealers. This conspiracy moved thousands of pounds of marijuana over the course of several years, hundreds of kilos of cocaine.”

Federal authorities have arrested over twenty people in a drug trafficking ring that spanned three college campuses in North Carolina.

This was not a case of a few people selling small amounts of marijuana out of a dorm room. It was an operation worth over a million dollars.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/feds-bust-massive-drug-ring-at-duke-university-unc-chapel-hill-and-appalachian-state/

>>12109947

KEK…So true

>>12109989

KEK…That's it…That's your comeback …Not Impressed …Try harder…..kekeke

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize."

~ Sinclair Lewis

(1885-1951)

Letter, 1926

>>12110024

KEK..People are actually getting caught now…..Hence one of the reasons for the big push to legalize it…Across the country … kekeke

>>12110038

China went from 3 Trillion to 13 trillion dollar GNP

ALL if it OUR money…Dirty

FKing Traitors in congress

THE $10 TRILLION PRIZE: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India Hardcover – October 2, 2012

TRACKING THE TRILLIONS: 6-MONTH CHECKUP ON IMF’S COVID-19 EMERGENCY AID

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated already staggering levels of economic inequality in many countries around the world. Now there is a real risk that trillions of dollars meant to support those hardest hit by the crisis may be captured by the wealthy, increasing inequality as countries are saddled with public debt for money lost to corruption.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lent US$89 billion to over 80 countries since March. The Fund has sought to ensure that its emergency assistance helps push back on the rising tide of inequality, with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva giving countries a road-map: invest in health and education, widen safety nets, and ensure access to food; address budget shortfalls through progressive taxation; and cut corruption and wasteful spending.

But there is little in the loan agreements to make governments heed that advice; some even include terms that could actually go against it.

https://anticorruptiondigest.com/2020/09/28/tracking-the-trillions-6-month-checkup-on-imfs-covid-19-emergency-aid/