Our statement in response to the UK Government's announcement of Palestinian state recognition 👇

My statement on the recognition of Palestine⤵️

Trump's 25 per cent India tariff is obnoxious and yet another gift to China. He's punishing poorer countries more than richer ones and alienating the global south. Stupidity doesn't cover the damage Trump is doing.

📸 Route des vacances. 1960. Paris

During a Feb meeting, Huawei's Ren Zhengfei told Xi about “Project Spare Tire,” an effort by Huawei and 2,000 other enterprises to help China’s chip sector achieve a self-sufficiency rate of 70% by 2028, report Raffaele Huang Liza Lin wsj.com/tech/ai/how-ch… via The Wall Street Journal

India isn't going to withdraw from BRICS under coercive pressure from Washington, so this sets the bar at failure. As for tariffs, even if they negotiate a ceasefire or a "deal," the damage is now done with the Indian public and the Indian body politic. Blunt coercion not useful.

There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing. In the startup world, we know momentum

One of the interesting things I learned while reading up on the recent #Taiwan recall vote débâcle was that the Beijing authorities have been taking prominent Taiwan KMT personalities on tours of the Xiaomi EV factory…

C’est en espérant découvrir un nouveau Poussin dans les réserves du musée d’Art ancien de Lisbonne que je suis tombé sur… un nouveau La Tour. Il sera présenté à l’expo La Tour à Musée Jacquemart-André à partir du 11 septembre et vous pourrez lire l’histoire de sa découverte dans le

One aim of my podcast is to encourage more reading. So, in that spirit, as discussed on the show recently with the authors Vladislav Zubok and Sergey Radchenko, here they are.

Sortie le 10 septembre en librairie, par Bernard Stora, assistant réalisateur sur #LeCercleRouge

It will be both amazing (in one sense) and unsurprising (in another) to awaken one June morning to learn that the Fifteenth Amendment is unconstitutional. But with U.S. v. Anderson (the XIV.3 case), there already is an effective precedent.

Excellent, forthright, eloquent piece from ⁦Thomas L. Friedman⁩ about Trump’s firing of the #BLS director. nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opi…

Beijing wants to consolidate the semiconductor industry. But that doesn’t mean it can. At the start of the year, the NDRC convened a group of chip equipment manufacturers to discuss the possibility of a mega-merger that consolidates fragmented technologies into one state-backed

💥 Trump Dhamaka: 50% tariffs on Indian imports. $64B exports at risk. Trust in 🇺🇸–🇮🇳 ties shaken. Global markets jitter. What is India’s real 3-option playbook after this tariff blast. 🧵 #TrumpDhamaka #TradeWar #USIndia #Geopolitics

Saturday gardening listening here in #Lincolnshire: another absorbing ⁦Sinica Podcast⁩ from ⁦Kaiser Kuo⁩, re: China AI etc, with at 53 mins v. helpful contrib from ⁦Ryan Cunningham⁩ re: Chinese tech workarounds of hardware constraints. sinicapodcast.com/p/the-world-ai…

Sunday morning after harvest here at South Carlton, #Lincolnshire: a perfect English scene.

Illuminating read from Kyle Chan on the cultivation of interlocking technologies that led to China’s domination of EV industry. Interesting illustrative chart. Written in Jan 2025 but very relevant. high-capacity.com/p/chinas-overl…

The absence of Liu Jianchao, a seasoned diplomat and powerful party official, could erode diplomatic expertise in Beijing, where leader Xi Jinping has increasingly favored political loyalty in personnel appointments. ⁦Chun Han Wong 王春翰⁩ and me wsj.com/world/china/ch…

Smart piece by Rahm Emanuel on why so many men are struggling today. It's housing, stupid. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…