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Oct. 28, 2025
- China unveils 5-year plan’s support for private sector, strengthening financial power – South China Morning Post
- Beijing has officially announced the Communist Party’s Central Committee proposal for the nation’s 15th five-year plan, including language that signals strategic support for the private sector and an acceleration of China’s transformation into a financial power, easing market concerns about their positions in the economy over the next five years.
- These messages were not mentioned in the communique published last week at the end of the fourth plenum of the Communist Party.
- Amazon cuts 14,000 corporate jobs as spending on artificial intelligence accelerates – Associated Press
- Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.
- In June CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggressively sought to cut costs since becoming CEO in 2021, said that he anticipated generative AI would reduce Amazon’s corporate workforce in the next few years.
- US and China seek to strike a deal over rare earths, tariffs and soybeans – Associated Press
- The United States and China are not going to resolve all the issues that divide them before presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet Thursday in Busan, South Korea.
- But they are likely to make enough progress on China’s stranglehold on strategic minerals, American export controls and other nettlesome problems to calm financial markets and prevent their rivalry from doing much more economic damage for now.
- Maccabi Tel Aviv row reveals Starmer’s cover story for colluding in genocide – Middle East Eye
- No one should be surprised that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confected yet another duplicitous antisemitism furore last week – one in which he implicitly cast West Midlands Police as colluding in Jew hatred and insisted that British Muslims be exposed to racist violence from visiting foreign football hooligans.
- Starmer had demanded that a decision by the police to bar fans of an Israeli club, Maccabi Tel Aviv, from attending a Europa League match in Birmingham next month be overturned.
- What’s on the agenda for US-Japan talks? – Reuters
- Oct 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Japan revealed some 20 companies interested in projects relating to key areas like critical minerals and AI during talks between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Some projects may fall under Tokyo’s $550 billion investment in the U.S., agreed as part of a tariff deal.
- The DAMNING Evidence that PROVES Keir Starmer LIED about Gaza – Double Down News
- An NYPD Camera Points Directly Into Their Bedroom. They’re Suing the City Over It – The Intercept
- On a quiet street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, a camera owned and operated by the New York City Police Department points directly at the bedroom window of Pamela Wridt and Robert Sauve.
- “It can see potentially directly into any part of our house,” Sauve told The Intercept.
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