La Vanguardia interviews Jacob Gunter on China.

China is using their trade power to influence Europe. We see that in Greece with the port of Piraeus.

Question is how we let that happen in the first place?

God I miss the craft beer scene in Beijing. Glad Secretary Yellen is patronizing one of my favorites.

There is now a bit of pushback against concerns about Chinese overcapacity. That is in part because the notion of overcapacity is itself poorly defined (capacity v domestic demand, v global demand or v the demand needed for decarbonization)

But there is a real issue imo

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'was tightly scripted, with no debate, no meaningful exchange of views—not even at the smaller roundtables that have always been designed for engagement. Yes, there were plenty of Western multinationals in attendance, but mainly for shameless, commercialized pitches of their…

#Russia wrongfully detained Evan Gershkovich a year ago this week. The The Wall Street Journal correspondent is now a state hostage. The Journal’s Friday front page is a stark reminder. #Russia should release him immediately and unconditionally. More on arbitrary detention in this thread 🧵1/21…

For decades, they powered China’s rise. Now, China’s migrant workers are finding they can’t retire. Some fall through the cracks, forced out of a job due to age but not yet eligible for pensions.
Great work by my colleagues Wanqing Chen 陈婉晴 and Ken Moritsugu
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China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers ft.com/content/7bf0f7…

Para Jacob Gunter, analista en MERICS, China podría condicionar la política europea gracias a su presencia en el Mediterráneo. La Vanguardia le entrevista tras participar en los #DiálogosPolíticaExterior de CIDOB “China, la UE y el Sur Global”
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I’m only part way through episode 2, but damn, this adaptation is not shying away from depicting the madness of the Cultural Revolution in its cruelest and dumbest forms alike.

Guess you don’t need to run things by Beijing when you’re barred from the China market!

The cultural juggernaut that is Germany continues its relentless mqrch towards the heights of refined taste

🚨EU member states have reached provisional agreement on its forced labour ban!

Parliament trade committee should now vote on the final text next week, before it goes to plenary for a vote probably in April.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner. Mentions of 'New Quality Productive Forces is surging in the Chinese Language Press ever since Xi Jinping's visit to Heilongjiang last year. The High Quality Growth concept seems to be on its way out.....

China's pushed a narrative of openness even as it signalled tighter control at this year's National People's Congress. In other words it says it's open for business - but do we buy it? My latest analysis, w tks to Neil Thomas 牛犇 Jacob Gunter Alfred M. Wu bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Hoy en CIDOB, organizamos una nueva edición de los #DiálogosPolíticaExterior . Expertos y representantes gubernamentales analizan la relación UE-China en un contexto geopolítico marcado por la rivalidad, la competición y la necesidad de cooperación
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Can neither party do better, or are the boomers really that unwilling to relinquish power?

If US history was broken into thirds, Biden and Trump would have been born at the very start of the third one.

Their birthdays are roughly as close to today as they are to the civil war.

My most ambitious Chinese New Year feast yet, and that was before we cooked up the mountain of dumplings everyone made together before dinner.

Happy Year of the Dragon!