Who is going to pay for the empty trains?

Below is a picture of the leading coach on today's 07.00 rail service from Dublin Heuston to Cork.

One passenger in a 69-seat coach.

Who's is going to pay for this?

Will Covid-19 lead to war? Isn't money and power the genesis of all wars?

There is no doubt that China is a one-party dictatorship. But is the US in a position to preach to China?

Is there not an irony in Pompeo quoting from Richard Nixon to support his argument?

We live in an era of fake news but back in the day, Nixon was proved to be a simple old-time liar.

From today's Guardian newspaper:

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has called on “free nations” to triumph over the threat of what he said was a “new tyranny” from China, in a provocative speech likely to worsen fraught US-China relations.

“Today China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else,” Pompeo said in a speech on Thursday at the Richard Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California.

“If the free world doesn’t change Communist China, Communist China will change us,” he said, Pompeo said Nixon’s worry about what he had done by opening the world to China’s Communist party in the 1970s had been prophetic.

“President Nixon once said he feared he had created a ‘Frankenstein’ by opening the world to the CCP,” Pompeo said. “And here we are.”

One passenger in a 69-seat coach.