‘Our untidy bush’ Arthur Streeton, 1927, National Gallery of Victoria
Macro & Markets
- US imposes visa restrictions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong security law – BBC
- Facebook will label newsworthy posts that break rules as ad boycott widens – Reuters
- Fed acts to keep banks ‘prudent’ amid virus risks – BBC
- Communication power and digital geopolitics – Asia Times
- The Looming Bank Collapse – The Atlantic
- Coca-Cola pauses advertising on all social media platforms globally – CNBC
- Siberia heatwave: why the Arctic is warming so much faster than the rest of the world – The Conversation
- Temperatures in Russia’s Arctic Circle rocketed to over 45C in the coldest town on earth, breaking all previous records on June 19 – BNE Intellinews
- IMF Warns of Financial Market Disconnect From Global Economy – Caixin
- Recovery will be slow if governments don’t do more, says influential economist – Market Watch
Asia
- Can India afford an economic battle with China? – SCMP
- Asean leaders ‘wary of putting all eggs into Chinese basket’ as they try to revive economies – SCMP
- China debt market feeling the heat in June with two big defaults and a government order to reduce risk – SCMP
- China’s energy weakness will lose the New Cold War – Asia Times
- Vietnam could face blowback from legal row with China – Asia Times
- Russia no peacemaker in China-India skirmish – Asia Times
- The battle for Asia hegemony – Asia Times
- How Modi fell prey to ‘coconut’ strategy on China – Asia Times
- China Is More Democratic Than America, Say the People – Bloomberg
- China recruits MMA fighters for Tibet border militia – SCMP…we know where this ends up…
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Americas
- New U.S. coronavirus cases hit 45,242 for biggest one-day increase of pandemic – Reuters
- Trump says he is staying in Washington to protect law and order – Reuters
- The EU will bar American travelers because of US coronavirus spread – Vox
- From Smoot-Hawley to ‘America first’ and ‘strategic sovereignty’ – VoxEU
- The Decline of the American World – The Atlantic
- A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic – The Atlantic
- Trump Can’t Bluff His Way Out of This – The Atlantic
- Failure to Launch – Slate
- Coronavirus mortgage bailouts suddenly swell as homeowners face new struggles – CNBC
- Will Donald Trump resume nuclear testing? – Econopmist
- Obamacare Faces Unprecedented Test as Economy Sinks – NY Times
- The coronavirus-led economic recession may be over, but the depression has barely begun – Market Watch
Europe
- EU holds off decision on borders, Americans set to be excluded – Reuters
- EU-China summit showcases Europe’s growing disillusionment with Beijing – SCMP
- Europe’s recovery will be ‘restrained’, Christine Lagarde warns – Irish Times
- What’s driving Europe’s stance on glyphosate – DW
- Bank of England wants to tighten rules in the non-banking sector – Economo
- Has China lost Europe? – Asia Times
Terra Specufestor
- Landlords tipped to claim billions more in tax losses as homes sit vacant – Ninefax
- Tourism industry braces for $55 billion hit with overseas travel likely banned until July 2021 – NInefax
- ‘Flabbergasted’: Dastyari calls for judicial inquiry into foreign influence in politics – Ninefax
- China protein milk powder imports from Australia, New Zealand jump but questions over use as a supplement for infants – SCMP
- China-dependent Australia unwise to risk trade war with Beijing, says ex-Canberra diplomat – SCMP
- Westpac’s win stands in ‘wagyu and shiraz’ home lending case as ASIC appeal dismissed – ABC
- Australian drugmakers hit by critical shortages at height of pandemic, inquiry hears – Guardian
- Proposed University Funding is Policy Ideological Vandalism – Pearls and Irritations
- Qantas cutbacks signal hard years before airlines recover – The Conversation
- No selection criteria, no transparency. Australia must reform the way it appoints judges – The Conversation
- Foreign investors make huge profits in Australia, we should have a fair share – Ninefax, Gittins
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…and furthermore…
- Private gain, public loss – Aeon…privatising public services is simply putting a private sector funds extraction mindset to the public teat…
- Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites – Vox
- The world’s poor cannot protect themselves well from the novel coronavirus – VoxEU
- Where did the grandeur go? – Aeon…good read: we need the vision and we need to give ‘management’ a white hot poker…
- Saved by the phone: Urban renewal or a new era of lawlessness? – VoxEU
- Covid and the nature of capitalism – VoxEU
- The Difference Between First-Degree Racism and Third-Degree Racism – The Atlantic
- Heart, kidneys, pancreas: Scientists just starting to understand health effects of COVID-19 – Japan Times
- Countries must resume the issuance of annuities – Economo
- You Say You Want a Revolution? – NY Mag
- New study finds troubling signs of “brain complications” in severe COVID-19 cases – CBS News
- The ungoverned globe – Aeon