Will the Global South – especially Brazil, South Africa, India, and China – step up to fill the climate leadership vacuum left by the West’s rupture? ‪@mafolly.bsky.social‬, Jayati Ghosh, and @jmhaas.bsky.social‬ hope the answer is yes. bit.ly/4mVN4t2

Fascinating in the @nytimes.com : A visual story of the energy strategies of the USA vs. China. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

📢 ECFR Webinar | Defence without America? Are Europeans ready to secure their own future? 🗓️ 23 June, 15:00-16:00 CEST 📍 Online | Registration required 📊 New polling from 12 countries 🎙️ Jana Kobzova, Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard 🎛️ Chair: @lykkefriis.bsky.social

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

Excellent piece by @shahinvallee.bsky.social arguing that the EU needs to perform a U-turn in its response to Trumps trade policy ip-quarterly.com/en/how-eu-bo...

I am thrilled to share with you the keynote on „Sustainable Development and the Crisis of US hegemony“ that @adamtooze.bsky.social gave at the Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025, challenging the antipolitical nature of the SD discourse. A true highlight of the debate youtu.be/NHn9dSQ05JU?...

Anybody interested in our common future needs to keep an eye on what happens in China. @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social is the man to follow dialogue.earth/en/climate/w...

Few spots left: attend our side event with Indermit Gill, Penelope Hawkins, HE Yemi Osinbajo, Anahì Wiedenbrüg and Ulrich Volz in Washington DC. Register now: drgr.org/events/kicki...

Germans who wish to fight against antisemitism should take note of @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/3RwWIVk

China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions economist.com/business/202... from The Economist

"It has become abundantly clear that Trump 2.0 is using a moral panic about “woke” and pro-Palestinian protests as pretexts to subjugate institutions posing multiple threats to aspiring autocrats." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

From the @FT Trade Secrets newsletter

Maybe Denmark should send some troops to Greenland to protect JD Vance and his wife during their visit. There have been threats of an invasion recently.

1/ Just got off the phone with my team in Palestine. Last night's attacks on Gaza are yet another war crime by Israel. Over 400 people—mostly civilians—were killed, many in residential buildings, a designated shelter, and other civilian infrastructure.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

This is not about fighting antisemitism. This is all about silencing opposing views. Today it’s pro-Palestine, tomorrow it’s pro-Ukraine, and then it’s just deporting whomever they don’t like. And then everyone is silent.

First they came for the communists. I did not speak out, I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I did not speak out, I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews. I did not speak out, I was not a Jew. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

I really wish people would care about Trump using Pinochet's tactics to disappear people for speaking their mind.

Let's be clear. Buying American weapons is a real risk to European security at this point due to political interference. Actually, it's an issue to anyone in the world relying on top US military equipment. Cc @jakluge.de

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

Tapping @rajakorman.bsky.social ‘s sign today

When the Americans have lost Kallas, you know it's curtains for the transatlantic alliance.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

this is one of those analyses from @adamtooze that are really super-insightful (albeit terrifying in a way). If you are anywhere close to power in Berlin - share this with the ones that are going to take decisions in the next weeks. We need to upgrade our rail infrastructure for so many reasons!

For the first time in my life I bought a flag. I felt the urge to show Trump, Musk and Putin that we European citizens love our united, free and peaceful continent, and that we are ready to make sacrifices for it.

Never thought that saving Europe from fascism would mean praying for German rearmament. But here we are.

Gideo Rachman ist spot on: on.ft.com/4b2uPNM Vance’s real warning to Europe

“It’s a moonshot.” Vienna has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported fossil gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

UK govt. global data analysis reveals that just one new #nuclear station takes between 13 to 17 years from planning and regulation to operation. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Ukraine's leader said his intelligence services "have clear intel that this summer Russia plans to send troops to Belarus under pretext of training exercises," adding that could be the start of operations against neighboring European countries. www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

Europe will be in Saudi-Arabia not at the table. It will be on the menu. 1st course: Ukraine. (Source: FT). High time to forge a European army as suggsted by Zelensky.

Yes! Please Macron Starmer Tusk Scholz take that decision now! And bring the nordics on board.

@brankomilan.bsky.social nails it open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...

Celebrating the print launch of the new progressive German-language econ mag: SURPLUS Die 2. Amtszeit Trumps markiert das Ende der vertrauten Globalisierung. Wie Europa auf ein drohendes Wirtschaftschaos reagieren kann, zeige ich in der ersten Surplus-Ausgabe. www.surplusmagazin.de/tooze-global...

What unites these courageous countries? They are all shaped by Viking culture. They have all been at some stage part of the Swedish empire (17th-18th century). Ready to defend themselves against Russia www.government.se/statements/2...

Five trillion dollars

4/ The US will be a source of chaos and volatility. The first month of 2025 has set the scene. We analyse here the rapidly shifting international power relations as other countries start to organize "around and without" the US: China, South-South, EU-South... www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...

1/ Are US elites doing their best to Speed run towards the Chinese century? Starting thread to track examples of US loss of power and influence after our @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay @katemac.bsky.social @laramerling.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...

Fascinating: the UAE is building with Chinese technology a solar-battery power plant which delivers constant power of 1 GW (about 1 nuclear power plant). It is cheaper than gas (and nuclear). This demonstrates that renewables now compete on firm, dispatchable “baseload” on.ft.com/40w5GpP

This is new... December 2024 shows a big pick up in solar panels in many African countries. 20-80MW per month is not small for these countries. I wonder why? China aggressively seeking new markets?

The EU needs to take its joint defense commitment seriously and be prepared to defend Denmarks sovereignty.

China "unusually welcoming to Tesla" "Musk himself is probably being very cautious in using his influence over Trump," Wu said. "If he pushes Trump too hard on China-related issues, it could strain their relationship and ultimately diminish his influence." asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...

Worth reading: How Europe could transition to be able to defend itself www.ft.com/content/d8e4...

Markets are power.

11 out of 16 planned European-led battery factories have been delayed or cancelled in Europe Meanwhile, 10 of 13 projects in the region by Asian manufacturers are on track And CATL employs 21,000 engineers in R&D alone — about four times Northvolt's entire workforce

Our democracy is under full attack from a right wing oligarch. Let’s fight back!