What's new: the impact of Chinese coronavirus

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By: Norbert Navarro

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It is a " huge challenge " for Zi Jinping's China, of course. " But also for the world economy ", stresses Challenges, because its consequences will go " beyond borders " and " impact the French economy ". Thus, " the Chinese engine seizes up, the business coughs " formulates this weekly, noting that the economists of the American investment bank Morgan Stanley have calculated the amount of the " bill " for world growth: at large traits, a decline of 0.15 to 0.3% in world wealth.

In any case, even if the economic projections go from simple to double, the mechanism, on the other hand, is clear: " the health of the world economy depends much more on China than it did seventeen years ago. the SARS episode , ”says Challenges, knowing that the current virus has already claimed more lives than SARS.

In France too, certain sectors are directly exposed, such as luxury for example. In a shortcut that borders on the general counter, Challenges therefore explains to its readers that the Chinese decidedly have a taste for luxury, stressing that " Chinese customers only represented 2% of world luxury purchases twenty years ago. Today it is more than a third, ”points out this expert business weekly. The coronavirus? Microscopic cause, macroscopic effects ...

" The Mila affair ", of the first name of this young girl threatened with death on social networks for having made remarks hostile to Islam :

The case has grown to such an extent that the Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet has split a platform published by the newspaper Le Monde dated today. Nicole Belloubet assures that " the crime of lèse-Dieu does not exist " in France.

If the Keeper of the Seals puts the dots on the " i " in this way, it is because in ten seconds, "point blank " on the radio, Nicole Belloubet used an expression that she herself, in her tribune at World , describes as " clumsy ", but also " regrettable " and " inaccurate ", affirming that " insulting religion is obviously an attack on freedom of conscience ".

True thunderclap, because the guardian of the law cannot ignore the law : since 1792, blasphemy is no longer a crime in France :

Beware of the desire to return to the Ancien Régime. French intellectuals watch over it and stand guard. The weekly L'Express thus publishes a platform, another, this time signed Elisabeth Badinter, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Marcel Gauchet, Jacques Julliard and Jean-Pierre Le Goff, just that!

Tribune in which these five renowned intellectuals are indignant. “ What has happened in recent days is unprecedented and is planting the worrying milestones of a" double standard " that is lastingly taking hold of our nation. Why, when the target of blasphemy is Islam, do we twist our republican principles, question this text? (…) The answer is to seek in the cowardice of the justice of politics, now obsessed with the acrobatics of "at the same time" on the subjects of freedom of expression when they concern Islam. We will pay dearly for this cowardice, ”warn these five“ big voices ”in L'Express .

As for the weekly Le Figaro Magazine , he is unleashed against " feminists ", whom he denounces what he calls " great cowardice " in the Mila affair. " Not a day, not a media without its denunciation of stalkers or rapists in the world of cinema, literature or sport , states Le Fig Mag . (…) But the same people look at their shoes or call for respect and the dignity of religions when Muslims insult or threaten women and homosexuals. Contemporary feminism pursues its vindictiveness for a patriarchy that hides in order to die; and look with Chimene's eyes at a patriarchy of violence never seen in our lands. It adds intellectual incoherence to moral cowardice , ”lumberjack Le Figaro Magazine . Unwillingly, Mila stirred France.

" The Barbarin affair ", named after the archbishop of Lyon, accused of having covered the sexual assaults on minors of a priest of his diocese, and who was ultimately cleared by the courts :

On January 30, Archbishop Philippe Barbarin was released by the Lyon Court of Appeal. He was on trial for not having reported Father Preynat for sexual assault on minors. And this court decision, which overturns the conviction of Philippe Barbarin at first instance is strongly denounced this week by the weekly Politis . Who is indignant at what he calls the " shameful release " of the archbishop.

The prelate, for his part, confides at length in Le Point . In this long interview, the Archbishop of Lyon beats his face, acknowledging " government errors ". A case that " will remain attached to my name and stick to me will always have in my face ... I will remain the one who does not have?" ", He said, hesitantly, at Le Point , before continuing:" he who has not denounced odious actors ", before concluding:" The essential, as Saint-Paul says, is that the Word of God continue its course ”.

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