You don’t stop this with tariffs

🇦🇪The UAE is set to become one of the winners of the multipolar world:
'The UAE’s newfound interest in metal mining points to long-term plans to move away from oil production and assume a central role in the new energy economy' World Politics Review Duncan Money
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This is turning out to be a big week for steel news. Today steel companies features heavily in the new US sanctions on Irans UAV supply chain. Mostly linked to khuzestan steel company. Usg hoping to reduce revenues from non-oil exports.

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Avui us presento un vídeo important pel moment en què ens trobem, amb algunes idees per un consum estratègic nacional que ens ajudi a fer front als reptes de les societats fragmentades i la globalització.

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Hong Kong falls out of world’s top 10 busiest ports for the first time

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More Chinese banks (ICBC, CITIC, Industrial Bank, and Bank of Taizhou) have stopped accepting payments in RMB from Russia. These restrictions were introduced in late March, likely in response to concerns over potential secondary sanctions.

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I just read X has been blocked in Pakistan

🌹Celebrem #SantJordi2024 amb una de les propostes de Tigre de Paper

LA FI DE L'ALTERNATIVA XINESA, Miquel Vila pròleg Manel Ollé 💭

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Abu Dhabi's group Taqa is interested in taking over Spanish power and gas company Naturgy.

Naturgy [formerly Gas Natural Fenosa] is one of Spain's top energy companies. This acquisition would extend Gulf influence in Europe's energy sector.

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This weekend I went to my first Trump rally. Like him or loathe him, he electrifies a segment of the population in a way that no other politician can.

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Scholz visit to China shows up EU divisions on how to engage Beijing

My report

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📣 Recordeu! Demà a les 19:00 conversa sobre el llibre 'La fi de l'alternativa xinesa' publicat per Tigre de Paper al nostre spaces.

✍️Amb en Miquel Vila i en Manel Ollé 💭

🎙️Presentat per n'Abel Riu

No hi falteu!

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🛢️🇳🇦 'Namibia will invest a big chunk of any revenue it gets from a potentially massive oil discovery into a sovereign wealth fund, and expects to learn if the find is commercially viable later this year'

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Seems that Brussels has imported Erdogan-style democracy

En Josep Asensio em va dur a la Mílicia a parlar del meu llibre “La fi de l’alternativa xinesa” si voleu fer un tastet abans de Sant Jordi us recomano que escolteu el podcast!

🎙️Ja podeu escoltar un nou capítol de La Milícia. Avui una conversa amb Miquel Vila arran del seu magnífic llibre, 'La fi de l'alternativa xinesa' (editat per Tigre de Paper), q si fos d vosaltres posaria al capdamunt de la llista per regalar per Sant Jordi open.substack.com/pub/josepasens…

The EU keeps doubling down on investigations in China-linked supply chains. The EU probes into Chinese medical device suppliers.

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Wealth in Europe is more collectivized than in America. This has its advantages if the state works well. What many Americans see now when they go to Europe is how Europeans, as individuals, have less margin of action when the social goods provided by the state begin to collapse

This is just made up lol

“Industrial Policy today is not about technological innovation but national security,” Kazuto Suzuki makes a great point that is usually missing in most discussions on this topic. I couldn’t recommend this episode of China Talk’s Jordan Schneider more.

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