
Max R Sharp
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Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.


The oil sector statements coming in now. 1. Oilsands Alliance "The announced industrial carbon tax, while lower than the current industrial carbon tax, still maintains uncompetitive costs on the Canadian oil sands industry. No other major oil producing nation faces a similar tax. The MOU states an objective to reduce the carbon emissions intensity of Canadian heavy oil production to best in class in terms of the average for heavy oil by 2050. As set out in Canada’s 2025 budget, the Canadian oil industry has a carbon emissions intensity that is already below the global average. “Oil Sands Alliance is committed to advancing the Pathways carbon capture and storage project provided the necessary regulatory and fiscal terms are in place, to support the project and new oil sands growth in Canada,” said Oil Sands Alliance President Kendall Dilling. “An industrial carbon tax only adds uncompetitive costs to industry on top of the costs of a carbon capture project.” oilsandsalliance.ca/news/oil-sands…














NOW - Trump says it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the U.S. and for China to purchase U.S. farmland; otherwise, colleges and farm prices would collapse: "I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture."




NOW - Trump says it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the U.S. and for China to purchase U.S. farmland; otherwise, colleges and farm prices would collapse: "I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture."


NEW: CIA Director Ratcliffe visits Havana for talks in the first trip by a CIA chief to Cuba since the 1953 communist revolution.





Canada has become most attractive market for infrastructure investors, global survey finds theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…







