Ford has explored forming a joint venture with Xiaomi to manufacture EVs in the US www.ft.com/content/678a...

1/ Platforms such you in and then they start to squeeze. This not just about Google or Meta, it is also about the US dollar and US coercion. @adamtooze.bsky.social flags @himself.bsky.social and my piece on the enshittification of US power. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Trump is referred to directly or indirectly 12 times in this opinion piece, which was clearly not written by his “Greenland envoy” Jeff Landry. Interesting choice by the NYT to run it, rather than leave it to Breitbart www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appears to have visited Epstein on his island in 2012, years after he said he severed ties with the sex predator www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The Epstein files released on Friday contain at least 3,200 documents that mention President Trump www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Can Peter Mandelson please go the way of Dominique Strauss-Kahn? In the wilderness, never to be seen or heard from again giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Sanctions news: Starmer says China has lifted "all restrictions" on six current members of the British Parliament, after talks with President Xi Jinping.

Trump's awful post about Alex Pretti am confirms this point -- he's not sorry, he's not pivoting, and he'll use the same playbook as ever to survive yet another scandal that would have destroyed any other politician my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The Carney and Starmer visits were not pivots to China. For both, it was about reducing the temperature with Beijing at a time of deepening tensions with Washington. Neither want to be in a two-front conflict with both superpowers. My comments to @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...

America First by the numbers

Can we revert to Minitel too? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/w...

Good discussion on EU-India trade agreement @maxbergmann.bsky.social @donatienneruy.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/t...

The ⏰ is still ticking… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/n...

The Netherlands on the verge of a new centrist, pro-European government www.politico.eu/article/dutc...

Instead of focusing on real threats to US security from countries like Russia and China, Tulsi Gabbard is trying to uncover non-existent fraud from an election that took place over half a decade ago 👍🏼 www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Trump warns Starmer & Carney on “very dangerous” business ties with China. A week ago he said this: “If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.” www.ft.com/content/1f65...

Greenlanders prefer ice to ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/w...

An FT analysis shows that Palantir has received $81 mln in contracts from ICE since Trump began his second term, while Deloitte has been handed new work totalling more than $100 mln from ICE and Customs & Border Protection over the same period 🧟‍♂️ www.ft.com/content/c741...

Carney’s speech in Davos makes more sense after this: The Trump administration held three covert meetings with fringe far-right separatists from Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta last year www.ft.com/content/11dc...

Was this a top hit in Germany? m.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPH...

Signing up for a German event is always an adventure

This is good news. I’ve been saying for some time that there are only two options is the EU wants to remain relevant 1) member states give much more power to Brussels or 2) a group of countries around Germany & France presses ahead. There is zero appetite for the former so…

Trump's trade wars are pushing China and India closer - at least in the economic field • In December India's exports to China were nearly 70% higher than one year earlier • New Delhi is mulling allowing Chinese companies to invest in India again www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Fishy: The new system, known as CATCH, requires importers to fill in manually hundreds of pieces of information that are held on certificates provided by boats to ensure the fish are caught legally 🐠 🐟 🎣 www.ft.com/content/53a9...

Successive German governments have avoided expropriation for fear of Russian retaliation. But the cabinet of Chancellor Friedrich Merz may be faced with no other choice. @chassnews.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9515...

Slovakia’s pro-Trump PM Fico was shaken by a meeting with the US president at Mar-a-Lago in mid-January, telling fellow EU leaders that he appeared to be “out of his mind” and “dangerous” www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Trump was asked at an event in Iowa whether he was worried about the dollar’s recent fall, and responded: “No, I think it’s great.” www.ft.com/content/04c7...

Trump puts blame on Pretti for carrying a registered, legal gun that he never even took out: “You can’t walk in with guns”. The NRA will love this www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

"Anyone who thinks this administration is going to run out of assholes any time soon better think again,” Stephen Miller told reporters. “We have a very deep bench.” As they say, personnel is policy. @borowitzreport.bsky.social www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-repl...

Trump 🌮 tracker c/o Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump 🌮 tracker c/o Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m afraid that linking German FDI in China totals for 2025 to Trump’s tariffs on the EU that were announced in April (and since revised) is a fundamentally flawed interpretation of how FDI works - namely with a time lag of years. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

US-EU trade deal still up in the air as some MEPs seek details on murky Trump-Rutte agreement on Greenland www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...

He is now backtracking. But let’s not forget that Trump, like Noem and Miller, spread lies about the victim Alex Pettri in the hours and days after his murder by ICE agents. When it really counted, Trump doubled down on false narratives. www.ft.com/content/8b85...

US pressures Ukraine to give up territory as a condition for security guarantees. The vehement reaction by the White House to this story (see quote) underscores its validity www.ft.com/content/8ca0...

A good day for the EU. Fingers crossed that the European Parliament doesn’t screw it up like Mercosur. This deal probably wouldn’t have reached the finish line without Donald Trump and his wonderful tariffs

Israel hosts antisemitism conference with European far-right parties www.ft.com/content/3eb8...

Interesting to run into the Russian military attaché at the Indian embassy’s annual “India Day” celebrations in Berlin yesterday, only days after his deputy was expelled from Germany for spying. amp.dw.com/en/germany-e...

Kudos to Merz for expressing concern about the violence in the US. Few European leaders have done so www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The head of NATO can’t say in public that Europe must prepare for a world where the US is no longer there to protect it. But it does - as rapidly and determinedly as possible. www.ft.com/content/e2f6...

Odds of a mining bonanza in Greenland are abysmally low • Getting mine running in Arctic can cost 2-3 times as much as equivalent project at lower latitudes • Island’s two big rare-earth projects have been plagued by difficulties and have yet to start operations www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Unlike its G7 partners, the UK has not erected tariff barriers to Chinese EVs. It is not considering meaningful cyber-related restrictions either. It is unique therefore in its openness to Chinese products. An overcapacity guinea pig of sorts among western democracies. www.ft.com/content/801c...

Trump owns this murder. His thugs, his lies. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Palantir’s role in enabling ICE raids is an undercovered story. A month ago, CEO Alex Karp - who wrote his college thesis on fascism - was asked whether Trump was a fascist and replied: “Of course not. I think that’s stupid, honestly” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...

Shooting people that pose no clear threat to law enforcement and then fabricating stories that the victims had brandished a gun has a long tradition in the US. Trump cheered on this killing in his first term. No consequences for the US Marshals who committed it. www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/u...

The Economist gets this wrong. The EU began work on the ACI because of Trump 1.0: “The EU had designed the ‘trade bazooka’ to intimidate bullying foes, with China in mind. Instead, the first target may end up being a country Europeans once thought of as a friend” economist.com/europe/2026/...

Alex Pretti’s family: “The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting”

One of the few Republicans in Congress who have spoken out against the cold-blooded murder by ICE agents of Alex Pretti www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

The message: Don’t believe your own eyes. An ICU nurse with no criminal record who was wrestled to the ground by half a dozen ICE agents and shot for no apparent reason is being labeled a “terrorist” by Trump’s top adviser.

The Trump administration, including the president himself, appears to be spreading a lie that the man killed in cold blood while pinned to the ground by half a dozen ICE agents had threatened them with a gun. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...