BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China’s statistics bureau said on Tuesday it had suspended publication of youth jobless data, citing the need to improve methodology in the way it measured unemployment among young people, which has hit record highs in recent months.
The decision announced shortly after the release of weaker-than-expected factory and retail sales data sparked a rare backlash on social media amid growing frustration about employment prospects in the country.
Young Chinese are facing their toughest summer job-hunting season after regulatory clamp-downs in recent years left traditional sources of graduate employment – including the property, tech and education sectors – bruised.
The most recent NBS data on youth unemployment, published last month, showed the jobless rate jumping to a record high of 21.3% in June.
The NBS’s decision was immediately mocked on Chinese social media, with a related hashtag receiving over 10 million views on microblogging site Weibo.
A Chinese professor last month said the country’s true youth jobless rate may have been closer to 50% in March, in rare public comments about the matter published in an article for financial magazine Caixin.
WARSAW, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Poland’s biggest military parade since the Cold War takes place in Warsaw on Tuesday as the NATO-member country flexes its military muscle in what the government hopes will be both a message to Moscow and to voters ahead of elections in October.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made boosting the armed forces a priority for Poland’s ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS), and with the election campaign in full swing the immense display of military hardware provides a chance to burnish their security credentials.
“This parade will be different from the previous ones; we will be able to see how the process of modernising the equipment of the Polish Army is progressing,” Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Sunday.
Polish-made Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles and Rosomak armoured personnel carriers will also take part.
The party has vowed to double the size of the army and spend around 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence this year.
PiS remains the largest party in most opinion polls, but its lead is narrow and it looks unlikely to win a majority.
I can’t wait for the suckers that inject this garbage into their bodies to try and justify it. You better go lock down again and hide under your mattress. Another head cold is coming…… 😆 .
They gonna parade Tony Fauci out there again? Maybe he can suggest we only have 4 people over for gatherings this time? Covid isn’t a big seller anymore. Just stop.
The only thing eyebrow raising about this is that they were bombers (assuming they actually were). Normally this sort of thing is done with recon aircraft.
Keep in mind these were aircraft that had been pulled out of retirement when Putin figured out their missiles are terrible and they don’t have as many as claimed, they do probably still have billions of lbs of conventional bombs.
Why is this news, from the article this looks to be a fairly “routine” event? Not that I support Russia, but I imagine NATO forces are also engaging in similar behaviour somewhere else?
Ya this is one of those, it’s routine and a big damn deal at the same time. Russia technically did nothing wrong. But at the same time they aren’t exactly being good neighbors
I’ll believe that “justice comes calling” when he’s wearing clothes that match his skin color (not his natural gray “corpse twice warmed over” pallor, the John Boehner tribute one).
Not saying that it’s not good that they’re trying, but since he’s rich and powerful in an extremely corrupt system,actual justice for his many crimes will probably come in several years, if ever…
I understand your cynicism, but if there's a silver lining it's that this is a state level charge so he couldn't pardon himself or get it dismissed if he were to somehow win the election. So this trial gonna happen no matter what.
I mostly agree, but then again, the risk of a Georgia judge being another Aileen Cannon is not insignificant, which could not just delay the trial but also unduly influence the outcome…
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