So now we have EU probes into Chinese EVs, rolling stock, solar panels, wind turbines, and now medical devices… am I missing any others?

Stunning how quickly / widespread these trade actions have materialized. Sign of the times bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A friend recently came back from China. He spoke in wondrous terms about how safe and clean it was, how easy it was to buy stuff and get it delivered. And he casually mentioned his friend rushing to dinner because she'd be boiled alive in a ceremonial bronze cauldron if she was…

Proud that Australia-China Relations Institute is partnering with China Matters to launch a new fellowship that supports a young Australian undertaking policy-relevant research that includes a fieldwork component in China. Applications due by 10 May 2024. 👇 Linda Jakobson australiachinarelations.org/content/apply-…

Hey Twitter people:
I’ll be in DC for the next week. Invitations to talk or drink, recommendations for restaurants, advice on what to do all gratefully accepted.

The twitter ads get real weird once you arrive in America.

Story of 14 yrs for Japan Auto Inc in China
From 13.7% in 2011 to peaking @ 21.9% in 2020
Back down to 13.7% in Q1
Yellow - Toyota, Blue - Honda, Purple - Nissan
Nissan has fallen the most
Toyota actually peaked in 2022 b4 declining
Honda seeing the biggest drop this yr

I was expecting a massive crowd of glycine girlies at the gate and nearly missed the entrance to Donghua Jinlong, the world's greatest glycine producer.

This weekend’s Financial Times Life & Arts front page is an essay from me on how my family came to the UK, my forthcoming book (link in bio!), and the untold human stories of China’s economic boom - plus some 90s baby pics for good measure 📸 on.ft.com/3U00uHo

China puts a lot of work into covering up repression in Xinjiang, wheeling out party-approved imams and diplomats from Iran, Russia and other allies to declare that Islam is flourishing. Here’s some on the ground reporting from Xinjiang this week 1/ economist.com/china/2024/04/…

Chinese trade group on European Union electric vehicle subsidy investigation: The fix is in.
reuters.com/business/autos…

President Joe Biden has added more Chinese companies and individuals to an export blacklist than any US administration trib.al/wxJTvM2

Theological terms explained. A 🧵

1) Calvinism: the belief that the Bible is best explained via Bill Watterson cartoons about a small boy and his toy tiger.

*DC-based Japan/Asia policy peeps*

Please join me *Friday, 4/19* Georgetown SFS
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for a series of conversations w/ leading experts re: shared policy challenges facing the US & Japan (Held under Chatham House rule)

For details/(required) registration:
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This isn't true. The US stopped exporting ships long before China emerged as a shipbuilding power. If China's shipyards disappeared tomorrow it would have zero bearing on the US shipbuilding industry. China's rise has been at the expense of shipyards in 🇯🇵,🇰🇷, and the 🇪🇺.

Two illustrative charts of the “Great Flippening” in global trade from Bloomberg this morning highlighting a structural shift in global trade, touching on many underlying themes from geopolitics to re-industrialization to AI. Rebecca Choong Wilkins 钟碧琪 and James Mayger great work.

Also saw a…

‘It’s chaos’: Chinese EVs pile up at Europe’s ports afr.com/world/europe/i…

Story: EU launches new probe into China’s wind sector

scmp.com/news/china/dip…

One of the odder shop names I’ve seen in China. Although the Boers did like a good raid.

Yellen enjoys a cold one in Beijing