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US stocks hit new high after coronavirus crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53745009

Another Open Editorial

People might rejoice to hear that the US and Japanese markets are on the rise again. If you read the article you'll notice that they now have to praise the economic measures taken by those authorities to keep their economies afloat. You might not like them, you can criticize them, but one thing is sure. Neither Trump nor Abe are the monstrosities or the inept or unreliable leaders some groups pretended us to believe. With help from different institutions they managed to deal with several issues caused by the pandemic. In US cases have exploded indeed, but there will be an economy after they start declining. In Japan they might not solve the stagnation they were facing before this virus season, still, they will be able to keep it running.

If you don't understand how important that is to people, take a look at underdeveloped countries. Costa Rica is in the midst of a severe fiscal crisis aggravated by the government's overcontrol of the economy. They tell people they can now open their restaurants but set rules to prevent people from driving their cars more than twice a week. How the hell is a restaurant owner supposed to survive this crisis and pay the rent and the wages and the taxes if nobody arrives asking for their menu?

Even if a party or a think tank comes up with tons of complaints, now they can't tell you Trump's administration didn't make an effort to revitalize their economy and stay as strong as the virus allows it. People wanted to cry out loud he had failed miserably, but numbers tells us otherwise. Americans didn't lose as many jobs as anyone had predicted, the stocks are back. Of course, now it's a good time to take some extra measures to ensure this will last long enough to begin 2021 with a different attitude, a more mature one.

Stuff like fighting crime, facing foreign governments that haven't been helpful at all or needed a push into the right direction was necessary as well. Or would you love the idea of getting your songs or your games or your scripts or your real life projects not related to gaming be stolen by some Chinese or North Korean or Russian or Iranian hacker? That's why I don't understand why some people around the globe, including fellow Costa Ricans, keep criticizing Trump for facing those threats and even telling China that their underground schemes to get access to technologies that don't belong to them nor have paid for them for commercial use are bad at all.

When they claim this is all about money they're right. Developers, musicians, writers, service providers and many more do deserve to get paid for their works. Now Chinese programmers and engineers will have to come up with original ideas instead of stealing them from foreign companies. What are they so afraid of? Are they admitting their technicians can't take on the challenge? Forcing them to play under the same conditions as the rest of the world is fair and might bring some peace or stability to a specific area of the global economy.

Once again I'm telling you all here that we need to crush selfishness here and now. It just happens that the right way, to make it last longer than any other method previously accepted, is to let states that don't care about stealing intellectual property or money realize right away that they will have to comply with the rules or face the legal and political consequences of their egotistical attitude. If peoples like the Chinese serving the CCP were decent, they would remove any suspicious code or hardware pieces from their infrastructure and products and services. They would even sign an agreement even if they'd never admit they committed lots of crimes in the past. Otherwise they'd prove they only care about economic gains obtained any way possible, including those that harm Americans or Europeans or Latin Americans or Africans or Asians in the process.

Don't call them divisive policies, name them as a serious request to make things right, where every party involved shares practically an equal share of responsibility and investment. Even so I wanna remind you that Trump wasn't asking for something laughable when he demanded the European Union to share more costs of the NATO military forces than they've done so far. The first countries called to defend their own sovereignty are those partaking in the European Union and the United Kingdom. America as a continent is not at risk of being invaded by the Russians, Europe is. First it was Ukraine and Crimea, now it's Belarus where President Lukashenko asked Putin to help him stay in power.

Both politicians are tyrants just as much as Xi Jinping is. Or do you still think they care about free press? So next time any of you want to make us believe communism disguised as socialism is the way to go, come and tells us how that can ever be true if communist countries like China and Russia, that hasn't really stayed away from it in reality, abuse of their own peoples. When they reach another leader they're not just after commerce and cultural exchange, they want to impose their leftist policies in their countries. They support those that comply with their extreme tactics, including beatings that might later kill the detainees. Do you call that freedom? How's that liberal?

No matter if you want to be left or right leaned or a moderate, please keep in mind that you can easily end up restricting other people's rights to the bare minimum of breathing air. China did, Russia did as well and now even Belarus is one of their apprentices. If you didn't support fascists like Musollini or the Nazis, then don't support policies that resemble those found in Chinese or Russian laws and procedures. Or gladly join the Uighurs in the "re-education" camps and let us know how it crushed your life.