Extraordinary anecdote about U.S. vs Chinese diplomacy in Africa 👇: the U.S. team were speaking with their African counterparts in French via translators whilst Chinese diplomats had actually gone through the effort of learning the local African language.

Quite a sign when Stephen Walt, one of the most renowned scholars of international relations in the world (and Harvard professor), writes an article in Foreign Policy arguing that "Noam Chomsky has been proved right" foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/c... A 🧵 on the article

This is genuinely hilarious, when reality hits... Milei in September 2023 (cepr.net/167657-2/): "Not only will I not do business with China, I won’t do business with any communists." Milei in The Economist today (economist.com/the-americas...) 👇

What a surprise! Turns out the "Department of Government Efficiency" has nothing to do with government efficiency but is simply a pro-business deregulation, mass layoff and cost-cutting exercise... It's all explained by Musk and Ramaswamy in the WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/musk... A small 🧵

The story around China issuing USD-denominated sovereign bonds in Saudi Arabia is generating an enormous amount of buzz in China, and could potentially be immensely important. I strongly suspect it's a message to the upcoming Trump administration. A small 🧵

As air pollution in North India is reaching insane levels yet again and the country & its neighbors top global pollution rankings, I was wondering: are South Asian nations following China's development path - extreme pollution during rapid growth, before an eventual cleanup? Let's see 🧵

Fascinating point made by historian and Columbia professor Adam Tooze: "The first China shock was when China was incorporating into our supply chains. The second China shock is when we beg to be incorporated into theirs."

This is hilarious! As everyone knows, China inaugurate 3 days ago a new $3.5 billion megaport in Peru. Blinken, obviously attempting to show that the US wouldn't be outdone, announced the next day that "the US will support the city of Lima in building a new passenger train line" 👇 BUT 🧵

Wow, looks like Xi was extremely straightforward during his meeting with Biden. According to the Chinese readout (guancha.cn/internation/...) here's what he told Biden were the 7 "lessons of the past 4 years that need to be remembered" 🧵

As a rule of thumb, if you intellectually side with Paul Krugman, you are wrong. He was wrong back then when he advocated for open free trade, and he's wrong now when he advocates for a trade war on the basis of "democratic values"... A small 🧵

This one is hilarious: the US ceded global climate leadership to China long ago... China literally has an 70-80% global market share in most green industries and installs more renewable energy each year than the rest of the world combined. The level of delusion is crazy...

If I were American, I'd be very worried: this is like an open-call for corruption and plutocracy on steroids. The only "super high IQ" folks who can possibly want to work for free to reform government are a) people who can afford to and b) who'll benefit from it another way.

This is stunning: the UN now projects that in 2030, China's share of the world's industrial production will reach 45%, more than 4 times that of the US (11%) and more than that of all High Income Countries combined (38%). Source: www.unido.org/sites/defaul...