Jon Lee Anderson travels around Ecuador with the country’s new President, Daniel Noboa, whose escalating war against drug gangs imperils the democracy he claims to be defending. nyer.cm/1GLPQC8

Antoni Gaudí vs Elon Musk: open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p…

Breaking News: Donald Trump is expected to name Senator Marco Rubio, a foreign policy hawk on China and Iran, as his secretary of state. nyti.ms/3UOR1Ux

I had a conversation with a former Trump trade official several years ago, where he said something to the effect of: "Under Trump something happened for the first time in almost a century: foreign policy was subordinated to trade policy instead of the other way around."

So yes, Rubio is the senate's most important China hawk. He also has a hawkish record on both Iran and Russia. ...But he also has given speeches on the failures of globalization, and the need for a new international economic order.

A Europa s'està creant un eix xinès Budapest-Belgrad-Tbilisi. La UE perd influència i ha de competir amb Washington, Beijing, Moscou o Ankara. Ens pot semblar una anomalia, però és el model dominant de política exterior al Sud Global. La meva columna: ara.cat/internacional/…

📌 'La Vanguardia' deja de publicar tuits de forma directa en la red social X, convertida en una red de desinformación desde la llegada de Musk lavanguardia.com/vida/20241114/…

Impresionante, sobre las nano-máquinas que pueden destruir células cancerígenas o bacterias resistentes a los antibióticos: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Impresionante, sobre las nano-máquinas que pueden destruir células cancerígenas o bacterias resistentes a los antibióticos: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Pues yo también me he abierto una cuenta en Bluesk* A ver qué tal el experimento.

"32 per cent of voters identified the economy as their number one issue in this election, and of that group 80 per cent voted Trump" lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

It was great to moderate the table on geopolitics and European digital sovereignty:

Atención, atención! Este viernes estaré presentando mi nuevo libro "El Tren" en Barcelona, con Javier Borràs. Javier Borràs Arumí. Será una charla sobre periodismo, viajes, crónica, geopolítica, China..y lo que surja. Os esperamos el viernes 29 a las 18.30 en la librería @nollegiu.

Este viernes en Barcelona presentaré el nuevo libro de Guillermo Abril, corresponsal de El País en China: