According to new research from the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center, 89% of known Mongolian-language websites have either been shut down, restricted, or converted into Mandarin Chinese, writes Erika Nguyen. Tech companies must not remain complicit in Chinese censorship, she argues.

🔎🌍 Des documents confidentiels révèlent comment la #Russie 🇷🇺 a réussi à diffuser des centaines d'articles dans 35 médias francophones ouest-africains, parfois à leur insu. ➡️ Avec un consortium de médias coordonné par @forbidden-stories.bsky.social, @observateurs.france24.com#Russieont enquêté

L'objectif n°1 de la propagande russe est de permettre à ses narratifs conçus pour diviser, manipuler et destabiliser la société française de bénéficier d'un maximum de visibilité. Hier soir, la propagande russe a atteint ce but grâce à la complicité de France TV.

Translation: China prepared to actively increase purchases of European high-tech goods that are currently subject to export controls www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Some thoughts for @scmpnews.bsky.social: #Chinese companies complain, yes, but they like the #European market, this is quite clear. www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

Suspicions grow that China is exploiting FOI laws to gather UK security data ft.trib.al/Hw7QDve

What the war in #Iran means for #China? In this article for @bruegel.org, I analyze from access to Iranian #oil cut off, the impact of the closure of the Strait of #Hormuz, #export disruption, #inflation, external #demand, the zero-sum game between China and the #US. www.bruegel.org/analysis/wha...

Tariffs, stockpiles, distrust: EU’s messy bid to ditch China hits capacity problems I've been off for a couple of days so didn't share my weekend piece. About the lack of capacity for China in EU policymaking, with a focus on minerals work with the US

I've been working in or adjacent to disinformation for far too long. Watched non-state actors adopt the tools of the internet rapidly, then state actors pick up the same playbook. From ISIS to Russia and China — two sides of the same coin. (1/8)

The 4th EEAS Threat Report on FIMI is out and shows the scale of information warfare targeting the EU and its partners in 2025: - 540 incidents - 10,500 channels - 90 targeted countries - 35% of detected incidents linked to Russia and China. 1/3

🎙️Looking for a podcast that sums up Europe-China relations in 2026?👀You found it! Listen to this episode of China Observers, where Etienne Soula speaks to our host Emma Belmonte. 🎧 chinaobservers.eu/unpacking-eu...

Mon article pour Le Grand Continent: « La guerre en #Iran va-t-elle casser le modèle chinois ? Les scénarios noirs de #Xi Jinping. » legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

🇪🇪❗️Russia launched a massive information campaign to destabilize the eastern region of Estonia. Propagandists spread calls for the creation of a self-proclaimed “Narva People’s Republic.” Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/the-russian-...

Our conversation on #China's Five-Year Plan (#FYP). The goals are crystal clear: doubling down on what appears to have worked well, moving up the ladder, and securing self-reliance. Rebalancing is not the priority.

Karl Weick (organizational psychologist, foundational work on sensemaking) had a great refrain: “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” I often think about this in relation to how AI can interfere w/ thinking by substituting its words for ours. This experimental study offers evidence.

The recent conflict with Iran has exposed vulnerabilities key trade, transport, and travel routes. GMF’s Kadri Tastan explains the importance of trade routes diversification and why the Middle Corridor’s strategic relevance in this is growing. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4sDECRO

1/ As the US continues AI-enabled strikes on Iran, new @brennancenter.org research from @emileayoub.bsky.social and me examines how the military’s investments in the technology have been building to this moment. Congress must step up and reckon with AI’s dangers to life, liberty, and democracy 🧵:

Jeez - these numbers for Europe are absolutely bonkers China's trade data for the first 2 months of the year. Exports to the EU up 27.8% Exports to Germany up 31.3% Exports to Netherlands up 17.9% Exports to France up 31.9% Exports to Italy up 36.4%

Fascism with Chinese characteristics. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New - Europe warned: weaponise EU market against China or face manufacturing collapse My report on new research from @ruehlig & @Aligarciaherrer that says: 1. China's economy is not as strong as Europe fears 2. Europe has leverage, use it or lose it

Noah Barkin with some harsh truths about Germany's failure to actually address the China shock: "The sense of urgency, the policy bandwidth, the willingness to think out of the ordo-liberal box, and the appetite for accepting short-term costs (...) have not been there."

Lors des élections, les ingérences étrangères se font toujours au profit du RN Pilotées de Chine ou de Russie, elles vantent l’action du RN, ou critiquent les partis concurrents. Dans tous les cas, le Rassemblement national en bénéficie. Via @mediapart.fr 1/ www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

MAGA is launching a transnational far-right project “Alliance of Sovereign Nations”. Hosted by US Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, the launch will feature US Speaker Mike Johnson, Markus Frohnmaier (AfD 🇩🇪 ), & António Tânger Corrêa (Chega 🇵🇹 ). Read more on Frohnmaier here:

So despite the EU saying they don't agree with the premise of the Board of Peace, a majority of EU member states will be represented tomorrow (14) + the EU itself Very strange way to show that you disagree with something

Leaked EU ports strategy targets Chinese FDI – fDi Intelligence: ‘A leaked draft of the EU’s upcoming Ports Strategy proposes tighter scrutiny of foreign investment and control regarding maritime infrastructure’

“We should be questioning how power formed in a way that enabled a handful of people—in service of their quarterly returns—to make socially significant decisions on behalf of everyone else, without scrutability, without clarity, and without democratic oversight.” - @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

The Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/finance/bill...

The far right label is not easily applied in China, yet xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, racism, and anti feminism are rising in online discourse and sometimes within the state. The global fight against fascism requires solidarity with grassroots resistance. www.tni.org/en/article/m...

Russians continue to flood France's information space with fake front pages of popular media outlets. 🚫 Russian Lies: "La Tribune accuses Macron of not stopping the war in Ukraine." This is being reported by pro-Russian Telegram channels.

Probe continues huge recent pushback against Chinese firms from the EU - Commission wants to force members to ban Huawei + ZTE - TikTok could be fined 6% of global revenue - Temu, Shein, AliExpress the target of small parcels tax from July - Goldwind probed for illegal subsidies

Defeatist Europe is set for growing dependence on China without decisive action – Jacob Gunter for MERICS: ‘only huge financial and geopolitical sacrifices today will save the region from greater pain tomorrow’

Alleged Greek air force spy for China was under scrutiny for over a year prior to arrest – Kathimerini

Exclusive Cold shoulder: China, EU in diplomatic stand-off ahead of Munich Beijing has frozen out the EU’s envoy & snubbed its biz lobby, EU quietly boycotting China’s envoy in return, Wang Yi is Munich-bound with no locked‑in meeting with Kallas

This would be big... Lithuanian prime minister says they made a strategic mistake by allowing a Taiwanese representative office to open in Vilnius under the name “Taiwanese" “I think Lithuania really jumped in front of a train and lost"

🇸🇰🇪🇺⚖️It took a while, but the Commission is finally, belatedly, getting tough on Fico's softcore rule of law crisis. While not as severe as in 🇭🇺🇵🇱, the slowly crawling dismantling of checks and balances by the Slovak government is finally getting the attention it deserves. 1/

We are currently clean on OPSEC

La France, sous un feu croisé de désinformation russe et américaine Depuis le début d’année, les réseaux prorusses et les comptes trumpistes ciblent de plus en plus la France. Avec des méthodes différentes mais un récit convergent, ils représentent un défi inédit. www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

PALANTIR is "Like Uber for authoritarians." Any time the Trump regime says "AI", what you should hear is "repression as a service": 1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data 2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse "Europe, do me a favour and don't contribute to a worldwide tyranny machine."

Can an alliance divided against itself compete with China? – Jonathan A. Czin: ‘The common denominator for today’s Russia, China, and the United States is a conviction that a more coherent, unified Europe is not in their interest. Each, in its own way, works to make that outcome less likely.’

‼️🩸A bloodbath for the German auto trade with China in 2025: 📉70% drop in mid-sized saloon car exports 📉38% drop in large engine cars 📉39% fall in small ones 📉54% drop in small station wagons 📉23% for larger ones

Interesting to monitor for sure but, given the services-heavy makeup of the British economy, I'm not sure how much value the UK experience holds for continental Europe.

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

Beijing’s saber-rattling conceals the real possibility of a loss in Taiwan, write Bonnie S. Glaser and Zack Cooper.

What a difference 9 years makes: the UN's 2015 future population estimates for China versus the UN's 2024 future population estimates for China

All this big talk of geopolitical, independent Europe in Davos AND in the European Parliament, then MEPs vote to delay the much vaunted Mercosur trade deal by potentially 2 years.

Germany’s €3b EV subsidy program open to Chinese brands. Environment Minister Schneider: “I am convinced of the quality of EU & German brands... I can't see any evidence of this postulated major influx of Chinese car manufacturers in Germany, either in figures or on the roads"

Putin’s spokesman encouraging Trump to seize Greenland: “There are international experts who think that in solving the question of adding Greenland, Trump will go down in history — not just the history of the United States, but world history”. 🇷🇺 can’t believe its luck www.ft.com/content/4b16...

Until now, 🇨🇳 has pushed for a sector-wide minimum price deal and opposed the idea of carmakers seeking stand-alone agreements with the 🇪🇺. This may signal a change in that stance, allowing both sides to save face. Would send an 🇪🇺🇨🇳 truce signal just as 🇺🇸 threatens 🇪🇺 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Easy to miss in all the Western hemisphere action but China continues to ramp up its pressure on Japan over Tokyo's support for Taiwan. Beijing's measures "may be aiming to fuel domestic criticism of Takaichi". Aka political interference via economic means. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This is appalling. Criminals are targeting, and stealing from, Meta's own users using Meta's own tools and Meta's chief concern is how to hide that fact, rather than to actually stop them. www.reuters.com/investigatio...