Brilliant book.

Chinese Foreign Agent was Behind NY Parade w Eric Adams: ”The findings raise new Q over Chinese influence operations in the US, where Adams and some other top politicians hv received campaign donations fr members of groups linked to CCP.” ⁦Didi Kirsten Tatlow⁩ newsweek.com/eric-adams-chi…

J'accuse: Hungary's extradition treaty with the PRC is a direct outcome of the political ostrich approach adopted by ALL European capitals.

The EU must finally act as one to halt Beijing’s relentless interference in the rights and freedoms of Europeans.
safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/hungar…

China has been cashing in on the failure of the western corporate governance
Executives invites their favorite persons to make up the board. They run the show and the board is there for show. The board members don’t have sufficient information to challenge management, don’t want…

Interesting read about Western self-hatred. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to make sense of this self-loath that seeks salvation with dictators, even terrorists.

ht ⁦Toni Malminen⁩ cafeamericainmag.com/western-self-h…

Why Xi’s trip to Europe was a success.

Overall, Arho Havren said some European countries should understand they can’t influence China’s behavior by engaging with them individually. Rather, such practice runs the risk of creating disunity within the EU, which is what Beijing seeks.

... and the Chinese government “thinks they can use Hungary and Serbia to influence Central and Eastern Europe,” said Sari Arho Havrén.

“Beijing has identified France as a weak link in the EU” that it could potentially influence because of French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to prioritize his country’s “strategic autonomy,” ...

EU fighting to counter China’s influence in global south, says top official Jutta Urpilainen

“The EU’s Global Gateway, designed to run between 2021 and 2027, seeks to mobilise up to €300bn of investments in infrastructure projects across low-income countries. It aims to…

'His PhD research is not applicable to military purposes... the focus of his research includes how the drones can fly through GPS-denied environments.'
No military applications in that at all then. theaustralian.com.au/higher-educati…

BYD will manufacture EVs in Hungary with zero tariffs, and Macron just welcomed investments from Chinese EVs and battery manufacturing companies.

'Finally, a country from the Global South...has pulled back from a grouping that is increasingly a front for Xi Jinping’s expansionist China, and for the creation of a Chinese-run financial system aimed at displacing the Bretton Woods institutions'/

telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

H/f Sari Arho Havrén 🎯Analysis of Xi‘s European tour &, imho …another Master Class… of why Europe is a “UNION” only in name becoming more economically dependent on 🇨🇳 as is…the once powerful & independent Germany has been for many years now.

Xi Jinping hails ‘new chapter’ for China’s relations with Serbia as Belgrade backs his global vision: ”The two countries signed a pledge to deepen and elevate their comprehensive strategic partnership and announced that they would ’build a community with a shared future’.”

Vucic…

FT thinks Xi Jinping’s European tour was unproductive - to whom? I think the opposite, it was quite a success to China. Xi offered no concessions on the EU’s trade concerns or reassurances that China will restrict the flow to Russia of dual-use goods — because he didn't have to.…