Reuters: Uneasy calm in Hong Kong after day of violence over extradition bill
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong riot police and protesters braced for possible further clashes across the city’s financial district on Thursday after a day of violence over an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.
Hundreds of riot police could be seen resting and re-grouping overnight while gaggles of protesters obtained fresh supplies of water, goggles and helmets, Reuters witnesses reported.
Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray in a series of skirmishes on Wednesday to clear demonstrators from the city’s legislature.
It was some of the worst violence in Hong Kong since Britain handed it back to Chinese rule in 1997 with a guarantee of extensive autonomy and freedoms, including a separate legal system and freedom of speech.
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US Food Banks Are Winning In Trump’s Trade War With China:
via HuffPo - the link is ridiculously long
Food banks have been the beneficiaries of a U.S. Department of Agriculture program crafted last year and recently extended to support farmers affected by China’s retaliatory tariffs. Part of the farmer bailout includes a $1.4 billion program to buy surplus commodities affected by the trade tariffs and distribute them to food banks, schools and other outlets that serve low-income people. The purchases include beef, grapes, lentils, oranges, pistachios, pork, strawberries and tomatoes.
The food distribution to food bank is part USDA’s Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP, which helps supplement the diets of low-income Americans.
Leaders at food banks say the program has helped them provide their clients with healthy food, though maintaining and distributing perishable goods has come with unexpected costs. But critics say donating food to the needy is merely a beneficial side effect of the aid program and won’t put a substantial dent in food waste or hunger.
“That combination of trade war and additional food for food banks is not the policy mix I would have recommended,” said Parke Wilde, a food economist at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston. “It’s better to have a fairly well functioning trade policy and less need for mitigation for food banks.”
Still, food banks are happy to have the additional items, even if it means adding freezers and storage space to accommodate it.
“This food is certainly very valuable to us as an organization and specifically the fresh items have been a huge benefit,” said Molly McGlinchy, senior director of procurement and direct programs for Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C. “This past winter, we had a pretty tough growing season, so the fresh items that the trade mitigation offered procured a large variety of fruits and vegetables we wouldn’t otherwise have been able to provide to the community.”
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