La Chine porte un coup dur à la « flotte fantôme » de Poutine ! 1/..

It is not re-routing - Vietnam has attracted a lot of FDI over the years, and no, it is not just China but everyone that is a key manufacturer in the region. Meaning, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, etc. There is a difference between disbursed &

KAL's cartoon in this week's The Economist

“China now produces about a third of the world’s manufactured goods, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. That is more than the United States, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and Britain combined.” nytimes.com/2025/01/12/bus…

"Russian energy group Gazprom is considering plans to axe 1,600 jobs as the company struggles with plummeting gas sales in Europe and sanctions against its oil arm in the wake of the Ukraine war." ft.com/content/39c3f9…

EXCLUSIVE — I spoke to Syria’s new Central Bank Governor Maysaa Sabreen for her first interview. Syria’s first female central bank chief, Sabreen said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary policy decisions, in what would be a sea change from the heavy

After ignoring Iran's clandestine oil trade for most of his tenure, Biden is finally turning the screws. The result: Iran's oil exports are down by a quarter in 3 months. Now Trump promises maximum pressure... How will Iran - and oil prices - respond? economist.com/finance-and-ec…

President-elect Trump said he would create an “External Revenue Service” tasked with collecting tariffs on foreign imports, the latest indication that the Republican aims to carry out his promises for sweeping trade levies via Hadriana Lowenkron Gregory Korte bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Outgoing Biden administration has further tightened rules for US microchip exports • Move restricts exports of US-made AI chips for data centres to only handful of countries • EU gets case-by-case treatment, with just 11 EU member states in most permissive tier #Fragmentation

Greece’s Metlen Energy & Metals SA will invest about €296 million in the European Union’s first gallium production line "Metlen said its investment enables Europe to completely substitute gallium imports." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Netherlands tightens export control rules to make ASML apply for licenses with the Dutch government instead of Washington for some of its tools bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🇪🇺🇲🇽 - A few days before Trump's inauguration, the EU and Mexico have just signed a trade deal - the agreement ticks all the boxes, covering de-risking supply chains, boosting the supply of critical raw materials and tackling climate change bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

How switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in COVID protection “N95s are up to 75 times more effective at preventing infection with COVID-19 than surgical masks, according to a study” axios.com/2022/01/11/n95…

To prepare for the coming Trump storm, EU leaders should focus on ensuring the bloc remains united. Read Agathe Demarais's Foreign Policy column: foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/16/tru…

Scores of career State Dept. diplomats resign before Trump’s inauguration wapo.st/3PH82gx

Fantastic news! Elina Ribakova is simply the best candidate one can think of for the job, with deep expertise and experience in key topics like sanctions, export controls and economic security (plus, she's a fantastic human being)

Since 2022 Western firms have paid $16bn in corporate taxes to Moscow's coffers - in my latest for Foreign Policy I explain that if the moral argument to leave Russia is not strong enough, the economic one is now watertight following recent Russian decrees buff.ly/42mFHU7