I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/ana…

Looking forward to this!

Really important for looking past current technology races towards those soon-to-be, making Zhang’s work key. Article reports as to how the Chinese state is now gradually taking over funding—and even exits—of tech startups.

It's not over yet😎 To avoid EV duties, Chinese companies step up efforts to seal minimum-price deals with the EU. It seems that the Volvo-Geely offer could be soon accepted, per my sources. Details of what the two sides are likely to agree on in my latest MLex story:

Further efforts to develop the India-US strategic trade and critical minerals supply. I wonder if either side pressed the other on stalled multilateral trade negotiations.

New research with Yeling Tan & David Steinberg (Johns Hopkins SAIS) now out in Review of International Political Economy. We assess how--and through what mechanism--information about Beijing's success/failure in efforts to expand its international economic influence affects public support for the regime. 1/5

As it ever was, it isn't easy to assess Chinese practices due to the opacity of internal dynamics. Reading the tea leaves on Chinese developmental success/failure is hardly conducive to prescriptive economics. Transparency remains the white whale.

China announced antidumping measures against EU brandy in response to the EV tariff, as I mentioned to James Mayger Bloomberg 2 days ago. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The European Commission will challenge at WTO the announced imposition of provisional antidumping measures by China on imports of brandy from EU. We believe that these measures are unfounded, and we are determined to defend EU industry against abuse of trade defence instruments.