EU politics
Al Jazeera – EU threatens tariff hike of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles
The EU is mirroring the United States’ tariff policy on Chinese electric vehicles, despite Germany’s opposition. Read the article HERE.
China
Climate Crisis
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Great Green Wall
Insightful analysis of Biden’s new tariffs on China. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Finance
J.W. Mason – Did It Matter?
Did the revolutions of the 20th century make a difference if all economies ended up capitalist anyway? J. W. Mason is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Tariffs, technology and industrial policy
China is catching up with the United States, which is why the US is turning to protectionist measures just as the British empire did in the late 19th century to stem the challengers to its […]
Climate Crisis
Doloresz Katanich – European ports turned into car parks as EV makers hunt buyers
What should be considered a major asset in the low-carbon transition is Ursula Von Der Leyen’s worst nightmare. In ‘EuroNews’. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Paolo Gerbaudo – The Electric Vehicle Developmental State
BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Tarik Cyril Amar – Scholz in China
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ trip to Beijing shows Germany needs China more than China needs Germany. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, […]
Climate Crisis
Michael Roberts – China’s unfair ‘overcapacity’
China is building lots of electric vehicles and solar panels and wants to sell them at a low cost during a climate emergency – and we are supposed to believe this is a bad thing? […]
Energy
Politico – EU snubs dying solar manufacturers as China poised to swallow market
EU solar manufacturers can’t compete with their Chinese rivals, a painful reality for Von Der Leyen and her NATO buddies. Read the article HERE.
Media
Alex Lo – When celebrated dissidents find the grass isn’t greener on the other side
Ai Weiwei joins a long line of dissenters such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Liu Xiaobo who became disenchanted by the West. Alex Lo has been a South China Morning Post columnist since 2012, covering major […]