De-coupling gaining pace 👍🏼🙏👇Nokia Reduces Orders from China-Listed Supplier Amid U.S. Advocacy for ‘Clean Network’ english.pardafas.com/nokia-reduces-…

Xiaomi’s factory produces 40 electric cars every hour — or, one car in 76 seconds — without a single human worker. 😱

#robots #automation #China

NEW: China must pay for mass murder by fueling America’s fentanyl overdose epidemic

'China is encouraging and facilitating this campaign of mass murder — as the House Select Committee on China revealed in a bombshell bipartisan report.' - Former AG Barr nypost.com/2024/04/17/opi…

A Chinese passport can be the best protection when someone is in danger? Haha! Many in China actually believe this CCP propaganda crap.

This is one of the most misleading first lines I've ever seen in an op-ed about China. 'In the middle of the last century, as the United States and Russia rapidly amassed thousands of nuclear weapons, China stayed out of the arms race, focusing its energy on growing its economy

🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇴🇨🇱🇵🇪 - Chinese exports of solar panels, EVs and lithium-ion batteries to LatAm are booming
• China supplies 99% of solar panels and 70% of EVs bought in Latin America
• Region is only one example of China's global dominance for production of clean tech goods

The Chinese equivalent of London's 'magic circle' firms have opened nearly a dozen new offices in Asia and the US over the past year, with fees sometimes half those of western rivals on.ft.com/4aFIusU

Germany’s doomed China strategy on.ft.com/3w0Ebth | opinion

The West regards overcapacity as a bug of the Chinese system.

They couldn't be more wrong.

This is meant to be THE feature, as per the Communist Manifesto:
'The proletariat will use its political supremacy ... to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.'

Frustrated by crap service almost everywhere? ft.com/content/0a5d30…

Martin Wolf: The shadow of war darkens on the global economy on.ft.com/3W1quol

'I literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China,' Turner says. 'They were completely complicit in that. There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this.'

fortune.com/2024/04/15/tik…

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/…

What did the Central Foreign Affairs Work Conference signal for 🇨🇳 foreign policy?

1⃣Focus on uniting Global South & wedging the West

2⃣More active shaping of geopolitical trends

3⃣Less damaging 'wolf warrior' diplomacy

My latest in Jamestown China Brief

jamestown.org/program/xi-sig…

Important and valuable initiative by European Policy Centre European Policy Centre

Former top CIA China military analyst Dennis Wilder偉德寧 says declassified intelligence shows that #China supplying #Russia with even more than many people had believed

The departure hall at Shanghai high speed rail. And you wonder why Chinese guests aren't exactly blown away by Paddington.

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's commerce minister Wang Wentao is in Europe to try to counter EU complaints on overcapacity.

He met Chinese car companies in Paris, including BYD, SAIC, Nio, Great Wall, via China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (CCCEU) 欧盟中国商会

His argument on de-risking looks strikingly similar to Olaf Scholz's!