China Sought Access to Anthropic’s Newest A.I. The Answer Was No. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Trump arrives in Beijing demanding Xi ‘open’ China to US business ft.trib.al/msyqoGI

Can't quite believe that in 2026 Italian TV news channels have not yet figured out how to pronounce Xi Jinping properly: we managed with Dostoevskij, surely we can make the effort for Xi Jinping as well?

China shock 2.0: should Europe repel Chinese investment? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com

And here is the original work cited by STOA from CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies: academytracker.ceias.eu/articles/wci... @ceias-eu.bsky.social @ludovicameacci.bsky.social @europarl.europa.eu

China Issues Supply Chain Rules Targeting Foreign Disruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China and Europe launch rare joint space mission - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Our Director, Luis Simón, has just published a new report with CSIS. He examines the emerging opportunities and structural constraints of cross-theatre defence industrial cooperation between Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific allies. Read www.csis.org/analysis/det... @erep.csis.org

Nvidia stops production of chips intended for Chinese market - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Merz has touched down in Beijing and met with Premier Li Qiang already - dinner planned with Xi in the evening. Will keep this 🧵today No readout yet, wires quote Merz as saying: "We have very specific concerns ​regarding our cooperation, which we want to improve and make fair"

Breaking! Brussels celebrates Chinese new year by opening explosive new probe into Shein that could see the platform banned from the EU over sales of "childlike sex dolls", among other misdemeanours

"Between economic security and geopolitical competition, EU-China relations remain blocked as Brussels seeks to strengthen its arsenal against addictions and coercion". @ludovicameacci.bsky.social has just published a chapter with ISPI! Read it! Read (in Italian) www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicaz...

🚨 New vacancy at the BSoG! We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (with grant) to work on a project exploring the ideational and symbolic dimensions of United States–China rivalry. 📅 Apply by 15 March 🔎 More: www.brussels-school.be/jobs/postdoc... #BSoG #BrusselsSchool #Postdoc #Vacancy

The angelic Meloni behind a fresco fiasco ft.trib.al/fMIdGJ9 | opinion

China’s genius plan to win the AI race is already paying off - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT So so so worth your time

China has begun choking off exports of rare earths and rare-earth magnets to Japan, the latest move to punish Tokyo for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan – WSJ: ‘licensing restrictions extend across Japanese industry, the people said, and don’t only target Japanese defense companies’

The first two hours this morning

oh yes, AI slop not only ruins writing, but also reading. "When you spend enough time around A.I.-generated text, you start to develop a novel form of paranoia." too much stuff feels like AI written; you can't help noticing and you can't prove either. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

The US is now making coercive threats to fine random European companies in retaliation for EU digital regulations that are designed to prevent hate speech, disinformation and harm to children. www.ft.com/content/001d...

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels today - China is on the agenda. I wrote about growing anxiety over China's rising support for Russia on Friday. That'll form the crux of a lunchtime discussion. Given the sensitivity, no phones or aides permitted.

Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips despite Donald Trump’s decision to allow the export of the technology to China as it pushes to achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductor production.

Sale! It’s on 20% off… you know you need it. Go on. www.routledge.com/Defence-Indu...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Pretty big news in global trading circles China will no longer ask for or avail itself of benefits and flexibilities for developing countries as a part of World Trade Organization negotiations, Beijing announced on Tuesday.

❗We are hiring❗ We are looking for a postdoc for the ERC-funded #CODE project on technology and geopolitics. We want a multidisciplinary and international candidate with strong research potential. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 Apply now csds.vub.be/vacancy-geop... @acalcara.bsky.social

Big news out of Spain Madrid has cancelled at the last minute a contract with Huawei to provide fibre optic services for various public institutions - including the Ministry of Defence Reason given: "strategic autonomy" elpais.com/economia/202...

How can the Chinese government make officials accountable in the age of high-tech innovation? Before, GDP was the KPI for measuring a successful official. But what is the KPI for innovation? How can risks be taken while avoiding excessive waste? Great interview to Yuen Yuen Ang:

New: The head of the German think tank Merics, sanctioned by Beijing four years ago has returned from a trip to China, suggesting that travel restrictions on the organisation may be easing. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

We are now extending the campaign to help fund another crucial item in our budget: translation. Help us keep providing high-quality and timely translations so we can introduce more Chinese voices to the world. This is the most important way we help the world better understand China. Thank you! (2/2)

not looking good for Princeton University Press is it @princetonupress.bsky.social the video can be found on Facebook www.facebook.com/share/v/16Rv...

Italy’s vote on who gets to be Italian on.ft.com/3ZdP06O

❗New Analysis❗ Ludovica Meacci contributes to a ChinaFile conversation on how President Trump could change EU-China relations. Great analysis and a must-read conversation for China watchers! Read🔸 www.chinafile.com/conversation... @ludovicameacci.bsky.social

🇪🇺🇨🇳 In very good company to discuss EU-China relations amid the Trump II era. @pugliesasia.bsky.social @ludovicameacci.bsky.social @franspaulvdputten.bsky.social @unaaleksandra.bsky.social @rturcsanyi.bsky.social It's on @chinafile.bsky.social 👇 www.chinafile.com/conversation...

❗Register Now❗ "Imagining a Post-American Europe: The Future of Europe’s Deterrence Architecture" with Gideon Rose, Tomasz Szatkowski, Lotje Boswinkel & Luis Simón. 🗓️ 14 May 2025 🕙 15:00-16:15 📍 Press Club Brussels Register now🔸 csds.vub.be/event/imagin...

❗New Book Review❗ Our very own Ludovica Meacci reviews Jeffrey Ding's book on "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" for International Affairs. Read 🔸 academic.oup.com/ia/article-a... @ludovicameacci.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

🚨Breaking: China has lifted sanctions on members of the European Parliament EP President Roberta Metsola just made the announcement at the conference of presidents www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

The only positive externality of all of this is the meme content

❗New In-Depth Paper❗ Capping a two-year NATO SPS project, we are absolutely delighted to publish our report entitled "Primed for Deterrence? NATO and the Indo-Pacific in the Age of Great Power Competition". Read🔸 csds.vub.be/publication/...

China mandates labels for all AI-generated content in fresh push against fraud, fake news www.scmp.com/news/china/p...

"The point of this censorship is not to drive public opinion in any certain direction. It’s beside the point whether something is positive or negative. The point is for censors to obliterate the event so that the public completely forgets about it." Great interview with a Gen Z PRC content auditor

My colleagues Lotje Boswinkel and Elie Perot have just published two superb papers that you should all read! Elie on France and revisiting deterrence: csds.vub.be/publication/... Lotje on long-range strike and Europe: warontherocks.com/2025/03/euro... Really brilliant!

Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe – Follow The Money: ‘In the early hours, Belgium’s federal police raided Huawei’s EU office and the homes of lobbyists for the Chinese tech company on suspicions of bribery, forgery, money laundering and criminal organisation’

In their first conversation, Wang Yi, China's foreign minster, told his US counterpart Rubio "你好自为之", which is basically a warning that roughly means "better stay in you lane/behave yourself". The line just made headlines in China but is missing/toned down from the English readout China released.

New: Commission has issued a "recommendation calling on EU member states to review outbound investments of their companies into non-EU countries" Latest incremental step of its economic security strategy. It covers semiconductors, quantum computing and AI ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Il principale export Italiano negli USA sono macchinari e apparecchi industriali, eppure ogni servizio di telegiornale sui dazi mostra solo immagini di prosciutti, vini e formaggi come se fosse un'economia agricola. Anche questo contribuisce a un'opinione pubblica disinformata.

In this piece for #IBEI blog #inRESPONSE, I delve into the first question. Meloni's has smartly pursued the governments' interests by prioritizing some aspects of the #Ukraine 'issue' (defence industry & reconstruction) while only pledges support for others. projectinresponse.com/index.php/20...

Today, @politico.eu listed #GiorgiaMeloni as the most influential person in #Europe. How did this occur in foreign and security policy and what does this mean? A short thread 🧵 www.politico.eu/list/politic...

If you missed our Brussels Indo-Pacific Dialogue on 3 December, you can relive the debates on our YouTube channel. We have a playlist with all the panel discussions including with Mélanie Joly, Baiba Braže, Stefano Sannino and many more! Watch 🔸 youtube.com/playlist?lis...