China-US trade war: Beijing escalates tit-for-tat with Washington 2nd Dec 2020 | Source: BBC
China has introduced tough new laws which restrict the export of controlled items .
The rules primarily focus on the export of military technologies and other products that might harm China s national security.
The export controls are widely believed to be in response to similar actions by the US.
TikTok, Huawei and Tencent are among the casualties of Washington s Chinese technology crackdown.
There are concerns the new regulations, which came into effect on Tuesday, could escalate the ongoing trade war with the US.
Trade tensions between the world s two biggest economies began in 2018 but have ramped up this year.
Of The ‘Tsunami’ Effect, And Praise For Ghana’s Electoral Commission
By Ajoa Yeboah-Afari
DEC 21, 2020
It wasn t exactly the overwhelming aseda (thank you) votes for President Nana Akufo-Addo that some of us had expected, as I wrote last week, but he has won a second term “to do more.” And victory is victory.
Nevertheless, the crushed expectations seemingly indicated a kind of protest from some quarters, from the grassroots.
Anyway, the tsunami-like devastating impact of the results of election 2020 on the Members of Parliament (MPs) holding ministerial portfolios, the MPs-cum-ministers, also appears to provide a pointer to the need to complete the review of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992.
Election 2020: NDC supporters protest in Takoradi
Some supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Western Regional capital, Sekondi-Takoradi, marched through the principal streets of the region to register their displeasure over what they described as a stolen verdict of the just-ended December 7 elections.
Jean Mensa, the Electoral Commission Chairperson declared President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the president-elect on 9 December but has since changed the figures so many times that doubts remain.
According to the supporters, they believe former President John Dramani Mahama should have been the legitimate winner of the polls. They re-emphasised the former president’s position that the result is fictitious.
Don’t take credit for peaceful election – Murtala Muhammed tells ‘incompetent’ EC
Parliament Returnee, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed has said the Electoral Commission (EC) should not take undue credit for the peaceful nature of Ghana’s election.
He wants the people of Ghana to be given the credit for comporting themselves and ensuring that there was peace in the country after the general elections.
He argues that the actions of the Commission even before the election could have plunged the country into chaos and therefore, are not worth any form of commendation.
“It is amazing that Jean Mensa is taking credit with arrogance for the peaceful nature of the election. The peaceful nature of the elections should be credited to the good people of this country not her. Her conduct could have resulted to violence,” he said in an interview with Pan African Television.
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