Moody's: Downgrading France's sovereign credit rating to Aa3, the outlook is stable.Russian parliamentarian: North Korea's special forces are assisting Russia in the war. On the 14th, the reporter of the General Taiwan Affairs Office learned that Andrei Kolesnik, a member of the National Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, said in an interview with Lenta.ru on the 13th local time that soldiers of North Korea's special forces are assisting Russia in the war in order to gain practical experience. North Korean leaders sent troops to help Russia fight because the DPRK believes that the combat effectiveness of soldiers who have participated in actual combat will be doubled, especially the special forces must have experience in participating in real conflicts. Kolesnik also stressed that North Korean soldiers participated in the operation legally according to the treaty signed between Russia and the DPRK. (CCTV News)Extreme Yue Xia Yiping voiced: The first-line stores did not resume work and production, and 200 sales were kept in the stores. The reporter was informed that at about 20: 30 yesterday, the CEO of Extreme Yue Xia Yiping replied whether the stores resumed work on the internal communication platform of Extreme Yue, saying that "the first-line stores did not resume work and production, and our purpose was only to ensure the minimum operating needs, that is, to keep 200 sales in the stores." At about 20: 25 on the same day, six employee representatives of Jiyue Automobile entered the conference room on the third floor of the enterprise to talk with Xia Yiping about related issues. Previously, the owner's representative and Xia Yiping talked in the conference room for nearly an hour. (Shell Finance)
Hainan: Accelerate the implementation of the core policy of Hainan Free Trade Port. The (enlarged) meeting of the Standing Committee of Hainan Provincial Party Committee was held on the 13th, which conveyed the spirit of studying the Central Economic Work Conference and studied and deployed the implementation work in Hainan Province. The meeting stressed that the core policy of Hainan Free Trade Port should be accelerated, and the policy system of free trade port should be continuously optimized and upgraded, so that enterprises and ordinary people can get a real sense of gain. We should expand domestic demand in an all-round way, make full use of more active macro policies, fully implement the national package of incremental policies, do everything possible to boost consumption and improve investment efficiency, continuously expand effective demand, strengthen project planning, give full play to the role of ultra-long-term special national debt, and plan and build forward-looking investment projects in seed industry, deep sea, aerospace and other fields. It is necessary to cultivate and expand the modern industrial system, focus on "five strong plans", improve the system and mechanism for cultivating and developing new quality productivity, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and build an important practice place for China's new quality productivity according to local conditions.Moody's: Downgrading France's sovereign credit rating to Aa3, the outlook is stable.Two-way opening-up continues to deepen, and foreign-funded institutions continue to be optimistic about China's capital market. Near the end of the year, many foreign-funded institutions have issued investment strategies for 2025. Foreign-funded institutions generally believe that a series of incremental policies since the end of September are gradually exerting their effects, providing strong support for China's stable economic growth and high-quality development. At the same time, the interconnection of financial markets continues to deepen, and the system of qualified foreign investors continues to be optimized, which also makes foreign investors' interest in investing in China continue to rise. Many foreign-funded institutions such as Goldman Sachs, UBS and Morgan Asset Management continue to be optimistic about the market outlook of China's capital market. Xing Ziqiang, chief economist of Morgan Stanley in China, said that the regulatory authorities are increasingly friendly to foreign investment, and the attention of overseas long-term capital and foreign investors to China is also developing in a positive direction. With the coordinated efforts of reform, it is believed that China's economy and market confidence will continue to stabilize and rebound. (Securities Times)
U.S. Department of Justice: new york suburban police station stripped and searched almost all the arrested persons. On December 13th, local time, CCTV reporter learned that the latest report of the U.S. Department of Justice showed that the suburban police station in new york often violated the citizens' rights, including illegal arrests and unnecessary strip searches and body cavity searches. It is reported that this report is one of 12 investigations conducted by the Ministry of Justice on local police agencies since 2021. According to the report, at least until the fall of 2022, the Mount Vernon Police Force will strip and search everyone who is arrested. Illegal strip searches and body cavity searches will last at least until 2023. Investigators said that although this practice was "restricted" during the investigation, it was not certain whether these practices had ended. (CCTV News) Yin Xiyue's impeachment case will be voted again today. Korean media analysis: As long as one more ruling party votes in favor, the motion can be passed. The South Korean National Assembly will hold a plenary meeting at 4 pm local time on the 14th to vote on the motion on impeaching President Yin Xiyue. Korean media analysis believes that according to the relevant procedures, the impeachment case needs at least eight ruling party members to "defect" in order to be passed in Congress. At present, seven people have publicly expressed their support, so as long as one more person votes in favor, the motion can be passed. At the same time, the commentary of "Korea Economy" believes that with the impeachment of Yin Xiyue, the concern about the long-term blank in the fields of administration, national defense and public security in South Korea is intensifying. Moreover, with the deepening of various investigations, the scope of the respondents involved may be further expanded. If the relevant impeachment and recall cases are passed, about one-third of the positions of State Councillors will be vacant. The article believes that it is not groundless to worry that this situation may eventually lead to anarchy. In addition, the US and Japanese media are also "worried" about their relations with South Korea. Washington post said that a month ago, Yin Xiyue was still trying to improve his golf skills, hoping to play golf with the incoming US President-elect Trump, which would make a good start for the relationship between the two sides. Now, he is fighting for his political life. (World Wide Web)