(Natural News) Large corporations are now taking advantage of their power and influence to communicate their positions on social issues, whether it’s about the environment, perceived inequalities or human rights issues. Using social media and marketing campaigns, corporations are trying to be the face of social change and cast their companies as socially responsible. But […]

(Natural News) Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and GOP U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty, a former U.S. Ambassador to Japan who is leading in polls in Tennessee ahead of the November elections, laid out a vision last week to not only recapitalize American industry but to force China to accept responsibility for the global coronavirus pandemic […]

(Natural News) The Chinese government has taken control over factory lines producing critical medical equipment and protective gear, according to China-based American traders, stoking fear and speculation over a possible wave of new COVID-19 infections. New York native Moshe Malamud, who has been doing business in China for well over two decades now, said in […]

(Natural News) Just one day after their reopening, global automobile company Ford temporarily shut down two of its North American factories after several of its employees tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). The Chicago Assembly plant, which makes some of Ford’s more profitable models such as the new 2020 Ford Explorer, Lincoln Aviator and […]

(Natural News) Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee is set to introduce a bill that will help American companies move their manufacturing from China back to the United States. The bill builds on calls for the country to “decouple” from the former as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Talking to the Epoch Times, Green said that his forthcoming bill would allow […]

(Natural News) If Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout China at its current rate and the government finds no good way to control it, millions of workers are going to be laid off from their jobs as two-thirds of small-to-medium businesses fail. According to a Google translation of a Yahoo! Taiwan story, the virus […]

(Natural News) As we’ve been reporting now for several weeks, the spreading Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is much worse than the Chinese government has said.  There are thousands more infections, according to various reports, and plenty more deaths — so many, in fact, that funeral homes are paying more than $143 an hour in order to […]

(Natural News) Several analysts have been keeping an eye on China’s internal economic activity as another way of gauging how severe the coronavirus spread really is and how drastic the government’s actions are to contain it. Over the past few days, these analysts have been able to piece together a number of indicators suggesting that […]

(Natural News) The Chinese economy grew at double digits for nearly two decades because the country literally became the world’s factory, producing everything from toys to computer components. But when the coronavirus outbreak began, the Communist government had to quarantine tens of millions of people in an effort to contain it. In doing so, thousands […]

(Natural News) While most people are focused on the direct human impact of the Wuhan coronavirus in terms of its risk of spread, far fewer are paying attention to the dire economic impacts of having to keep Chinese factories closed due to the outbreak, including at least one factory owned and operated by Apple iPhone […]