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Geely Has Plans To Sell Cars Online And Deliver Keys By Drone So They Don’t Have To Touch You Because Gross
If there’s one upside of this whole pandemic mess, it’s likely that there’s probably some intense germaphobes working for all these automakers that have long dreamed of plans like this, but never really felt they had a chance. Well, germaphobes, you win. Now we live in a world where a major carmaker is seriously planning…
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Trump’s Trade Adviser Pushing ‘Buy American’ Order On Drugs, Medical Supplies During Pandemic
White House trade adviser and arch-protectionist ideologue Peter Navarro is trying to include buy-American provisions in the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief package that could disrupt the medical supply chain while the U.S. is already ill-prepared for a projected surge in cases, the Daily Beast reported on Thursday.
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In China, Social Media Users Speak In Code To Avoid Coronavirus Censors
Responding to criticism over how it handled the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government banned words and word combinations like ‘Wuhan,’ ‘Red Cross,’ and ‘Crisis + Beijing’ from popular social media platforms. But China’s social media users have been creatively replacing those words with more obscure phrasing or abbreviations so they can avoid censorship and…
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China Has A Ship Mapping Waters Off Christmas Island
No, they’re probably not taking selfies with coronavirus quarantine patients. Instead, it appears that a high tech Chinese ship is busy mapping the waters off Christmas Island for strategic reasons.