Investments - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org Let No Man Take Your Crown Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:20:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-Screen-Shot-2024-05-16-at-1.06.13-PM-32x32.png Investments - Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org 32 32 The falcons and the secretary bird: Arab Gulf states in Sudan’s war https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/the-falcons-and-the-secretary-bird-arab-gulf-states-in-sudans-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-falcons-and-the-secretary-bird-arab-gulf-states-in-sudans-war Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:04:57 +0000 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=47893 Sudan’s conflict, now into its third year, has wrought unprecedented devastation on the country and threatens even more instability in a critical region connecting the African and Arab worlds. While the country’s strategic value is vastly underestimated in popular and geopolitical discourse—press coverage frequently dismisses it as a “forgotten conflict”—Sudan rightly occupies the minds of...

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]]> Sudan’s conflict, now into its third year, has wrought unprecedented devastation on the country and threatens even more instability in a critical region connecting the African and Arab worlds. While the country’s strategic value is vastly underestimated in popular and geopolitical discourse—press coverage frequently dismisses it as a “forgotten conflict”—Sudan rightly occupies the minds of policymakers working on the various regional contexts of which the country is a component, whether the Red Sea, the Sahel or the Horn of Africa.

Sudan’s strategic location, natural resources, vast arable land and importance for the trajectory of the region makes its conflict deeply geopolitical. It has drawn direct engagement from great powers like Russia and the United States, and from Sahelian and Horn actors such as Chad, Ethiopia and Libya. Yet, it is Arabian Gulf states—namely Qatar, Saudi Arabia and, significantly, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—that have the greatest capacity to influence the conflict’s outcome.

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]]> A key Chinese shadow bank has missed payments on dozens of investments, and it shows just how bad things are in the world’s second-largest economy https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/a-key-chinese-shadow-bank-has-missed-payments-on-dozens-of-investments-and-it-shows-just-how-bad-things-are-in-the-worlds-second-largest-economy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-key-chinese-shadow-bank-has-missed-payments-on-dozens-of-investments-and-it-shows-just-how-bad-things-are-in-the-worlds-second-largest-economy Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:43:45 +0000 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=44392 Chinese trust company Zhongrong International has missed repayments on dozens of investment products since late July — pointing to deepening troubles in the world’s second-largest economy amid a real-estate crisis. Wang Qiang, the company’s chief compliance officer, told investors earlier this week that the company — a part of China’s shadow banking sector — had...

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]]> Chinese trust company Zhongrong International has missed repayments on dozens of investment products since late July — pointing to deepening troubles in the world’s second-largest economy amid a real-estate crisis.

Wang Qiang, the company’s chief compliance officer, told investors earlier this week that the company — a part of China’s shadow banking sector — had missed payments on at least 30 products, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

Zhongrong is the ninth largest trust in China, with 600 billion Chinese yuan, or $82 billion, worth of assets under management.

Wang said Zhongrong doesn’t have immediate plans to make the payments because it has short-term liquidity issues, per Bloomberg.

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Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-real-estate-crisis-zhongrong-trust-misses-payments-country-garden-2023-8?op=1

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]]> Florida, DeSantis yank billions in investments from ‘woke’ BlackRock over ESG investing https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/florida-desantis-yank-billions-in-investments-from-woke-blackrock-over-esg-investing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=florida-desantis-yank-billions-in-investments-from-woke-blackrock-over-esg-investing Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:32:16 +0000 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=43037 Florida is yanking $2 billion worth of state assets managed by BlackRock, escalating the GOP standoff with the world’s largest money manager over its ESG investment policies. The state treasury will freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and remove BlackRock as the manager of about $600 million worth of short-term overnight investments with...

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]]> Florida is yanking $2 billion worth of state assets managed by BlackRock, escalating the GOP standoff with the world’s largest money manager over its ESG investment policies.

The state treasury will freeze about $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and remove BlackRock as the manager of about $600 million worth of short-term overnight investments with the goal of giving that business to other money managers by the beginning of 2023, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said in a statement  Thursday.

Republicans, who say liberals are using environmental, social and corporate governance investing strategies to advance an ideological agenda that would be voted down at the ballot box, have lashed out at “woke” corporations and money managers, pledging to roll back the $40 trillion ESG investing business.

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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/12/01/florida-desantis-blackrock-esg-woke/10812382002/

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]]> Taiwan invests EUR10 million in Lithuania and provides semiconductor scholarships to Central and Eastern Europe students https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/taiwan-invests-eur10-million-in-lithuania-and-provides-semiconductor-scholarships-to-central-and-eastern-europe-students/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taiwan-invests-eur10-million-in-lithuania-and-provides-semiconductor-scholarships-to-central-and-eastern-europe-students Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:49:13 +0000 https://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/?p=42923 Taiwan is fulfilling its promise to invest in Lithuania and other Central and Eastern European countries to further enhance collaborations in the semiconductor, electric vehicle (EV), and laser industries by providing investments and scholarships. A Reuters report quoted the head of the Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius as saying that Taiwan will invest EUR10 million...

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]]> Taiwan is fulfilling its promise to invest in Lithuania and other Central and Eastern European countries to further enhance collaborations in the semiconductor, electric vehicle (EV), and laser industries by providing investments and scholarships.

A Reuters report quoted the head of the Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius as saying that Taiwan will invest EUR10 million (US$9.98 million) towards semiconductor production in Lithuania.

Ming-hsin Kung, minister of the National Development Council (NDC) – the Taiwanese government agency in charge of the sovereignty investments – confirmed to the United Daily News that the EUR 10 million investment is actually to be made to three companies through the EUR200 million Central and Eastern Europe Investment Fund that it set up earlier in 2022.

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Source: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20221108VL201/eastern-europe-lithuania-semiconductor.html

 

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