15. ท่าทีของจีนต้องถ่อมตนเข้าไว้เพราะเอาแค่ในปีนี้สหรัฐพูดถึงหยวนดิจิทัลบ่อยครั้งจนน่ากลัวทั้งภาครัฐและภาคเอ็นจีโอที่ทำงานประสานกับภาครัฐของสหรัฐ เช่นศูนย์ Center for New American Security (CNAS) ซึ่งมีความเชี่ยวชาญในประเด็นด้านความมั่นคงแห่งชาติของสหรัฐและการผงาดของเอเชียในฐานะศูนย์กลางอำนาจระดับโลก พวกเขาออกรายงานเล่มหนึ่งคือ “สกุลเงินดิจิทัลของจีน: เพิ่มข้อมูลทางการเงินให้กับเผด็จการดิจิทัล” ซึ่งวิเคราะห์การถือกำเนิดของหยวนดิจิทัลไว้หลายแง่มุม ด้วยทัศนะที่ตั้งธงไว้ว่าจีนต้องใช้งานมันเพื่อเสริมการปกครองแบบอำนาจนิยมแน่นอน
Stocks snapped a two-day drop as dip buyers emerged, fueling a rally in companies that stand to benefit the most from an economic revival. Treasuries were little changed.
Most major groups in the S&P 500 rose, with raw-material, energy and industrial shares leading the charge. A gauge of small caps climbed more than 2%, outperforming major benchmarks. CSX Corp. paced gains in the Dow Jones Transportation Average after a strong revenue outlook. Netflix Inc. tumbled on disappointing subscriber figures. The Canadian dollar advanced as the nation’s central bank said it’ll pare back asset purchases and move up its expected timeline for potential rate hikes.
Equities rebounded as traders sifted through corporate results for signs on whether an anticipated jump in profits would bring with it forecasts for stronger growth. Earlier losses were driven by concern over a flare-up in coronavirus cases around the world that could jeopardize an economic rebound, with stocks trading near their all-time highs.
“Investors are trying to figure out what’s going to accelerate through the reopening based on earnings and guidance, while simultaneously keeping an eye on any reports of a coronavirus resurgence globally,” said Mike Loukas, chief executive officer at TrueMark Investments. “It’ll be a tug-of-war for direction on certain days.”
Earnings season may be just the spark the Russell 2000 needs after trailing major benchmarks this month. The gauge’s revenue is set to grow by 8.7%, beating the S&P 500’s by 226 basis points, wrote Bloomberg Intelligence’s Michael Casper and Gina Martin Adams. The small-cap index’s cyclical sectors — led by raw-material, financial and consumer-discretionary companies — are expected to drive the sales growth, according to analysts’ consensus estimates.
These are some of the main moves in markets:
Stocks
The S&P 500 climbed 0.9% at 4 p.m. EDT.
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose 0.7%.
The MSCI All-Country World Index gained 0.4%.
Currencies
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index decreased 0.1%.
The euro was little changed at $1.2034.
The Japanese yen was little changed at 108.07 per dollar.
Bonds
The yield on 10-year Treasurys fell one basis point to 1.55%.
Germany’s 10-year yield was unchanged at -0.26%.
Britain’s 10-year yield climbed one basis point to 0.74%.
Commodities
West Texas Intermediate crude fell 2.7% to $61 a barrel.
Gold gained 0.9% to $1,794.90 an ounce.
Published : April 22, 2021
By : Syndication Washington Post, Bloomberg · Rita Nazareth, Kamaron Leach
Biden says guilty verdict in Floyd murder offers a chance at reform
WASHINGTON – Almost immediately after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd late Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden was on the phone from the Oval Office, eager to talk to Floyds family.
“At least, God, now there is some justice,” Biden told a tearful family, gathered in a courthouse hallway and crowded around with the president on speakerphone. “We’re all so relieved . . . Guilty on all three counts. It’s really important.”
The family urged him to ensure police reform was accomplished, that the moment was used to usher in new change in a country grappling with frequent spasms of violence and an underpinning of racial unrest.
“You got it, pal,” Biden said, in video captured by family attorney Ben Crump. “That and a lot more . . . This gives us a shot to deal with genuine, systemic racism.”
He then offered to bring them to Washington on Air Force One.
The guilty verdicts on all counts against Chauvin, who is White, for killing Floyd, who was Black, makes this case different than many previous ones – creating a potential inflection point for a president who made racial equity and police reform a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, but who hasn’t yet placed it at the forefront of his presidency.
In a striking scene, the man who was the vice president to the nation’s first Black president was joined by the woman he chose as the nation’s first Black vice president. The two of them watched the verdict together in the Private Dining Room at the White House before calling the family afterward and then offering back-to-back remarks to the nation.
“Black Americans, and black men in particular, have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human,” Harris said in raw and pointed remarks. “Black men are fathers. And brothers. And sons. And uncles. And grandfathers. And friends. And neighbors.”
A president who never marched for civil rights – even though at times he claimed he did – and who admittedly was the one wearing a suit jacket rather than the flak jackets or tie-dyed shirts of 1960s protesters is now in a unique role at a unique moment in history.
Biden on Tuesday was not necessarily soothing a skittish nation – one that was prepared for widespread protests, with helicopters hovering over boarded-up downtowns around the country – but instead is now attempting to create momentum for police reform.
“This can be a moment of significant change,” Biden said. “We have a chance to change the trajectory in this country.”
His remarks to the nation came hours after he made extraordinary comments earlier in the day as the jury was still deliberating, saying that he viewed the evidence as “overwhelming” and said he was praying for “the right verdict.”
Floyd’s death nearly a year ago, and the national protests that came afterward, were a key moment for Biden’s presidential campaign. They triggered new policies and commitments, and prompted Biden to make his calls for racial equity and an overhaul of the criminal justice system a more central element of his message.
The death spurred Biden to make one of his first trips after a lengthy period of staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, traveling to visit the Floyd family in Houston and developing a personal connection that he has often referenced since. He also recorded a video that played at the funeral.
“The original sin of this country still stains our nation today, and sometimes we manage to overlook it,” he said four days after Floyd’s death. “None of us can turn away. None of us can be silent. None of us can any longer, can we hear the words ‘I can’t breathe’ and do nothing.”
He said that it was “a national crisis” that called out for “real leadership.”
“It’s going to require those of us who sit in some position of influence to finally deal with the abuse of power,” he said.
Yet for Biden’s first three months in office, there has not been a concerted push for police reform – even as there have been a number of high-profile shootings. He has abandoned his pledge to form a police oversight commission. White House officials have pointed toward appointments he has made at the Justice Department, and insist they will investigate police misconduct.
Biden supports congressional legislation named after Floyd, but officials have not detailed efforts Biden has made to ensure its passage, the way he has on other top priorities like covid relief legislation.
Fatal police shootings have remained constant since The Washington Post began tracking them in 2015, and there has been little change since Biden took office. There have been 274 shootings so far this year, putting it on course to be the same number this year – around 1,000 – as it has been in recent years without a major shift in police culture or restrictions on gun ownership.
“Enough. Enough. Enough of the senseless killings,” Biden said in his remarks on Tuesday evening.
“Today’s verdict is a step forward,” he added. “Such a verdict is also much too rare. For so many people it seems like it took a unique convergence of factors.”
He said that having a killing that took place in broad daylight – extending for nearly 10 minutes and captured on video – highlighted in full view what many Black Americans deal with daily. He also noted how remarkable it was that fellow police officers testified against Chauvin, rather than close ranks around him.
“Most men and women who wear the badge serve their communities honorably,” Biden said. “But those few who fail to meet that standard must be held accountable . . . Today’s verdict sends that message. But it’s not enough. It can’t stop here.”
Biden has been closely following the trial and he called Floyd’s brother Philonise on Monday after the jury was sequestered.
“They’re a good family,” Biden said earlier on Tuesday. “And they’re calling for peace and tranquility no matter what that verdict is.”
But Biden also went further, calling the evidence for a guilty verdict “overwhelming,” an unusually blunt assessment from the White House on a volatile case that has not yet been decided.
“I’m praying the verdict is the right verdict, which is, I think – it’s overwhelming, in my view,” Biden said.
He added: “I wouldn’t say that unless the jury was sequestered now.”
While the comments may not have had any bearing on the case itself, they were highly unusual from a president and could provide another reason for Chauvin’s defense to argue the trial has not been fair.
Making Biden’s comments even more notable, the state judge overseeing the case had warned Monday that politicians should avoid publicly opining on the case. That rebuke was aimed at Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who on Saturday night said protesters should “stay on the street” and “get more confrontational” if there is not a guilty verdict.
Judge Peter Cahill denied the defense’s motion for a mistrial because of Waters’s comments, though he said that they may have given the defense attorney a reason to file an appeal.
Biden’s comments drew swift criticism from lawyers, including some usually sympathetic to him.
“No sitting President should be publicly weighing in on how a jury should rule in a pending criminal matter,” tweeted Bradley Moss, a lawyer who specializes in national security. “No president, liberal or conservative, democrat or republican.”
As president, Donald Trump was often criticized by Democrats and legal ethicists for giving his opinion on legal matters that were not yet resolved, especially if they were under the jurisdiction of federal officials. Chauvin’s trial is being handled by the state of Minnesota.
After Biden made the comments Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki stressed that he had waited until after the trial was completed and the jury was sequestered to offer any opinion, arguing that meant he was not infringing on the prospect of an impartial decision.
“I don’t think he would see it as weighing in on the verdict,” Psaki said. “He was conveying what many people are feeling across the country, which is compassion for the family, what a difficult time this is, what a difficult time this is for many Americans across the country who have been watching this trial very closely.”
Later in the day, in the call with Floyd’s family after the verdict, Biden referenced the compassion he felt for them. He spoke specifically of Floyd’s young daughter, Gianna, and pointed to her as a rallying cry.
“I keep thinking of her words, ‘Daddy’s gonna change the world,’ ” Biden told the family. “Well, we got a shot to make change.”
Biden presses employers to provide paid time off for vaccine shots, recovery
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Wednesday sought to jump-start suddenly slowing vaccinations of Americans against covid-19, pressing businesses and nonprofits to give employees paid time off for the shots and touting government funding to underwrite some of the costs of that time.
The initiative, designed to encourage millions of unvaccinated people to get immunized, sends one of the strongest signals yet that vaccine demand is emerging as a bigger challenge than supply. It marks a shift from months of long waiting lists and limited opportunities for Americans to get vaccinated. Biden announced Wednesday that the United States will hit 200 million vaccination shots by Thursday, a target he had set out to meet by the end of April.
“I’m calling on every employer large and small in every state to give employees the time off they need, with pay, to get vaccinated,” Biden said. “No working American should lose a single dollar from their paycheck because they chose to fulfill their patriotic duty of getting vaccinated.”
Repeatedly declaring the country had entered a “new phase” in which all Americans ages 16 and older can get vaccinated, Biden warned that “the broad swath of American adults still remain largely unvaccinated,” and lamented that “too many younger Americans may still think they don’t need to get vaccinated.”
“To put it simply, if you’re waiting for your turn, wait no longer,” he said.
Biden’s pitch comes amid both hopeful and concerning signs in the nationwide effort to vaccinate people as quickly as possible. After weeks of accelerating daily inoculations, the average daily number of reported shots in arms slowed significantly over the past week, with an 11 percent drop in daily shots administered nationally, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than 40% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. At the same time, most Americans who haven’t been immunized say they’re unlikely to get the shots, a recent poll showed. Meanwhile, a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine has complicated efforts to swiftly administer shots.
In an afternoon speech at the White House, Biden called on all companies to provide employees with paid time off to get shots and to rest if they feel unwell afterward.
The president highlighted a tax credit in his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief law, which will reimburse businesses and nonprofits with fewer than 500 employees for up to $511 per day of paid vaccination leave offered between April 1 and Sept. 30, to a maximum of 10 work days.
“Every employee should get paid leave to get a shot, and businesses should know that they can provide it without a hit to their bottom line,” Biden said. “There’s no excuse for not getting it done.”
At least 133 million people have received one or both doses of the vaccine in the United States, according to Washington Post data. More than 86 million people are fully vaccinated, the data show. By Thursday, Biden said, 80% of American seniors will have had at least one shot.
But many Americans are still reluctant to get vaccinated. Polling shows opposition to the vaccine is much more pronounced among Republicans than Democrats.
The new tax credit is part of the government’s quest to buttress efforts in the private sector aimed at encouraging vaccination. Large employers from American Airlines to Target have unveiled incentives for employees to get vaccinated, from an extra day off next year to free rides to vaccination sites.
The success of those initiatives could help determine how businesses approach requiring the vaccine for their employees – a vexed political debate that the administration has sought to leave to the private sector.
Short of mandates, however, Biden administration officials said they had examined research showing employers have outsize influence in reaching the remaining unvaccinated population. The tax credit, they said, would provide the financial support necessary to allow small businesses to make vaccination convenient for their employees.
The approach is wise, experts said, because some of the workers most at risk of coronavirus exposure may be reluctant to get vaccinated if it means sacrificing limited time off.
“I think it’s a very smart move,” said Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. An even more immediate way to support small businesses in guaranteeing paid time off, she said, would be to provide direct payments to employers who show that they’re providing this benefit.
Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, welcomed the announcement, saying it was vital for government to help remove various “social determinants” blocking access to vaccination, from work to transportation to child care.
As Biden approaches his 100th day in office, he is eager to highlight the progress he has made in combating the pandemic. The president has made fighting the coronavirus the dominant focus of the early part of his presidency. He campaigned aggressively on the issue last year and signed the sweeping covid-19 relief bill into law earlier this year.
Biden pledged in a news conference in late March that the U.S. would administer 200 million coronavirus vaccine shots by the end of April – doubling a prior goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office. On Wednesday, he called hitting that milestone ahead of that deadline an “incredible achievement for the nation.”
The president delivered his Wednesday address just days after residents 16 and older became eligible for vaccination, a dynamic Biden promoted this week in a video.
“We have enough of it, you need to be protected, and you need in turn to protect your neighbors and your family. So please, get the vaccine,” Biden says in the video.
Biden said Wednesday he hoped the U.S. could help provide other countries with vaccines to address the pandemic, but that domestic supply had not yet reached a high enough level to do that in earnest.
“We don’t have enough to be confident to give it send it abroad now. But I expect we’re going to be able to do that,” he said.
Published : April 22, 2021
By : The Washington Post · Sean Sullivan, Isaac Stanley-Becker
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