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François Valentin

@valen10francois

🇫🇷 politics analyst with an eye for a good map-based story

Occasional thoughts on China

Schwarzman Scholar

Host @undecencypod

ex-@EurasiaGroup @ukonward

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For those of you who wonder how bad it was Here's France's (green of course) fmr energy minister boasting about how she + her UK counterpart schemed to get nuclear off the list of green energy 25 years ago despite instructions from their gov't

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You can find me in the latest episode of CapX's capitalist podcast talking about the EU-US deal As well as all the vicissitudes of Britain's managed decline

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What's really interesting is when you look at the food consumption habits of the French: You can still see these old phantom provinces Despite these provincial borders having largely wiped out by the French revolution

What's really interesting is when you look at the food consumption habits of the French:

You can still see these old phantom provinces

Despite these provincial borders having largely wiped out by the French revolution
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Wrote this a month ago, one of China's biggest challenge is rampant local debt! Completely out of control in many regions since the housing bubble popped. Massively underdiscussed issue

Wrote this a month ago, one of China's biggest challenge is rampant local debt!

Completely out of control in many regions since the housing bubble popped.

Massively underdiscussed issue
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NEW: The latest episode of The Capitalist is now available on X In today's episode, economist Andrew Lilico and policy analyst François Valentin join Marc Sidwell to discuss the EU-US trade deal, the demands of 'resident doctors', and the UK's ticking fiscal time bomb 👇

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Fun fact: the only coastal city in China that has not been occupied by the Japanese during WW2 was... Macau, owned by neutral Portugal. Despite the Japanese violating Portuguese neutrality in Timor in 1942, Macau was left alone

Fun fact: the only coastal city in China that has not been occupied by the Japanese during WW2 was...

Macau, owned by neutral Portugal.

Despite the Japanese violating Portuguese neutrality in Timor in 1942, Macau was left alone