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.
China
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Adam Tooze – In China, clean energy is now THE driver of overall economic growth.
It’s gone entirely under-the-radar in Europe that not only is China churning out enough solar panels for the world at rock-bottom prices, but the European Union is increasingly manouvering to block those solar panels reaching […]
Finance
Thang Nguyen Quoc – The Deglobalisation Myth
New supply chains study finds China-US and China-Japan decoupling, but global supply chains as a whole are continuing to expand. Thang Nguyen-Quoc, Ph.D. leads Oxford Economics Asia’s Macro consulting team in Singapore. Cross-posted from Pearls […]
Uncategorized
Branko Milanović – The politics of physiocracy: Quesnay and China
The Physiocrats are out-of-fashion but they may have something to teach us about China’s political system. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of […]
Geopolitics
The Left Book Review – The New Cold War, by Gilbert Achcar
What is the New Cold War? How did it happen? And what is it’s future? Ben Wray and Ranjan Balakumaran discuss international relations expert Gilbert Achcar’s new book on the key geopolitical conflict of our […]
Finance
John P. Ruehl – Comparing How the West and China Offer Loans to Developing Countries
China has established itself as a fully blown competitor to the IMF and World Bank for infrastructure investment worldwide, and in many places has usurped Western lenders. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living […]
Corruption
Politico: Portugal’s corruption scandal spells trouble for EU’s critical minerals hunt
The EU faces a number of problems in its efforts to become less reliant on China for critical raw materials, not least corruption. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Vijay Prashad – How the War on Gaza Has Stalled the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC)
The grand economic design of the United States to cut out China and Iran while drawing Saudi Arabia and Israel closer together is in tatters. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The […]
Climate Crisis
The Non-Aligned Movement then and now: Interview with Paul Stubbs
A new Non-Aligned Movement would have to be led by the global south and put ecology at its centre. Paul Stubbs is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics (Zagreb). He holds a […]