“Some 58% of respondents to the two-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, agreed with a statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, to 'influence American public opinion.' Some 13% disagreed.”

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I’m looking forward to taking part in this important discussion on technology and rising to the China challenge. Particularly interested to hear the remarks by Bi-khim Hsiao 蕭美琴.

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Excellent gig by ⁦The Black Crowes⁩ at The Anthem last night. Lots of great tunes from their new album and classics like this👇

The playbook for this has always been clear as day.

Beijing is not unable to spur consumer demand. It's simply unwilling to do it. It doesn't jibe with how Xi wants to run his economy.

How China's ad-hoc tech pipeline fuels Russia's Ukraine war efforts asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-… via Nikkei Asia

Why Xi Jinping is afraid to unleash China’s consumers via Financial Times
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“Mr. Biden can either enforce his red line through sanctions or other means, or he can signal a collapse of American resolve by applying merely symbolic penalties.” wsj.com/articles/china…

I disagree with this approach. It says Chinese wages in current USD should be multiplied by 4.3 instead of 1.7 (normal PPP). This assumes there's no difference in US vs China labor productivity. But then it uses current USD for all others in this global comparison below. 1/

How the right U.S. chip strategy can keep Taiwan free wapo.st/3wfbJ6W Dmitri Alperovitch: 'export controls must be expanded to cover all semiconductor manufacturing equipment to enjoin China from building, operating and maintaining fabs at any scale'
#US #Japan #Netherlands

VDL hinted that banning TikTok in the European Union is an option. She immediately added that the Commission was 'the very first institution worldwide to ban TikTok on our corporate phones. We know exactly the danger of TikTok.'
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Inside a Navy Submarine Navigating the Arctic nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/…

'Security cooperation between Japan, the Philippines and the U.S. will help deter China's military expansionism in the region, Taiwan's top diplomat said in an exclusive interview.' asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks… via Nikkei Asia

'[T]he focus on regulation “is driving Europe to last place [and] is driving Europe to irrelevance” which was why he believed it was “on the way to becoming a museum — great food, great architecture, great scenery [and] great wine but no industry left” ft.com/content/6d07fe…

'...the buying power of China’s 2022 military budget balloons to an estimated $711 billion—triple Beijing’s claimed topline and nearly equal with the United States’ military budget that same year.' Mackenzie Eaglen American Enterprise Institute
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“TikTok’s effort to wall off U.S. user data only focused on the ‘front door’ while leaving the back door wide open, former employees say.” fortune.com/2024/04/29/tik…

A U.S. charm offensive, a new leader in the Philippines and forceful Chinese actions have helped forge a new era of ties between Washington and Manila wsj.com/world/asia/the…

China's enablement of Russia's defence industry is stark: economist.com/graphic-detail…

5 🇧🇪 politicians — among them 2 MEPs, Hilde Vautmans & Guy Verhofstadt — were targets of a Chinese hacking campaign.
Some are known for their stance on China, like Vautmans, who's lead MEP on China relations.
w/ Antoaneta Roussi
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‘Honeypots’ and influence operations: China’s spies turn to Europe via Financial Times
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Western banks in Russia paid €800mn in taxes to Kremlin last year on.ft.com/3UBv6k3