May God shower 8kun with HIS LOVE and leadership.
And may He bless the anons doing the good work.
>Marking 30 years of ties, Israel and China convene joint committee on innovation
30 years?
Beijing’s courtship of Israel has been canny and effective
Americans increasingly see China as an adversary, but Israelis don’t. When the Pew Research Center carried out a survey on global attitudes in 2019, two-thirds of Israelis said their view of China was “favorable,” and just a quarter said the opposite.
This was close to a mirror image of the American public, where it was 60% unfavorable and just 26% positive.
Israelis have many problems, and China has never been one of them.
Israel and China go way back; how far back depends on what you mean by “Israel” and “China.”
And yet the relationship survived, and over time the flow of shekels and renminbi grew from a Jordan River trickle to a Yangtze torrent. For much of the last decade Chinese tech investments were the talk of the local venture capital scene. Barely a week went by without Chinese executives in Tel Aviv on the “startup nation” tour, and if in 2011 there were only five China-Israel tech deals, worth a total of $31 million, by 2018 there were 72, worth $4.8 billion.
Trade between the two countries, worth barely $1 billion in 2001, is now 10 times that, mostly in the form of Chinese exports to Israel.
Let’s take the dairy giant Tnuva. Any internal Israeli decision—about, say, fat content in processed cheese—now impacts a state-linked Chinese company. That decision is thus tied to our relationship with China, which includes tunnels and hydroelectric plants and ports, and might result in the phone ringing in the office of Israel’s foreign minister. Nihao!
January 09, 2022
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/chinese-itzik-haifa
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Web of corruption around Isabel dos Santos still being untangled two years after Luanda Leaks
The Pandora Papers shed new light on the offshore dealings of powerful figures close to Angola’s former president who were recently sanctioned by the U.S.
January 24, 2022
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/web-of-corruption-around-isabel-dos-santos-still-being-untangled-two-years-after-luanda-leaks/
All the companies tied to Isabel dos Santos
dos Santos siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars in public money out of one of the poorest countries on the planet.
The documents also show how a cohort of Western consultants, accountants, and other professional services companies profited from her empire, and helped legitimize it.
Dos Santos or her husband have owned a stake in all the companies below, according to the leaked files and public records.
https://qz.com/1787088/all-the-companies-tied-to-isabel-dos-santos/
Isabel dos Santos of Angola was once Africa's richest woman. Forbes removed her from the billionaire ranks in January 2021 following asset freezes.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/isabel-dos-santos/
Malawian President dissolves cabinet on corruption row
Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has dissolved the country's entire cabinet in charges of corruption on some of his ministers, he said in an address to the nation late on Monday.
January 24, 2022
https://news.trust.org/item/20220124190330-evuc3