Xpeng, Geely show off AI-powered ‘smartphones on wheels’ in China asia.nikkei.com/Business/Autom…

Oh by the way we had an agreement with your predecessor Rodrigo #Dutraitor , we just shook on it with a nod and a wink. It was a ‘gentleman’s agreement. Well Duterte ain’t no gentleman and blowing people off their feet with water cannon isn’t gentlemanly asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…

China’s EV overcapacity spurs global fears of more price cuts asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Elec…

Even more subsidies? Expensive. And unproductive and it wouldn’t do much bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Air China Orders Homegrown C919s in Challenge to Jet Duopoly bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

There’s ridiculous over capacity in the world’s largest car market, China, which is increasingly becoming an EV market. Some of this stock will be exported.Tesla and BYD are discounting but a lot of stock will end up unsold nytimes.com/2024/04/23/bus…

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Along with a bunch of arrests, all of a sudden the Europeans are starting to call out the #CCP Party state’s political interference and IP theft. nytimes.com/2024/04/27/wor…

Correction: Probably two ships involved. A closer look at the ship in Rik Glauert's video (hull #793) looks like a naval intelligence ship of the same type (hull #792) that was spotted off #Australia 's coast in 2022, referred to as a Dongdiao Class Auxiliary Intelligence ship…

Good. I support this 100%. Marles unveils $100m new aid for Ukraine theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence…

I’m not sure how much cooperation there will be deep or otherwise but these meetings have to happen and it’s good that the the defense chiefs are in contact

China has doubled its nuclear arsenal since 2020 and is expanding its conventional forces faster than any other nation has since World War II. Yet the West is so fixated on punishing Russia that China has managed to avoid much scrutiny, let alone pushback. project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-…

US wants allies to cut chip-related🇨🇳exports amid Huawei alarm:”Washington wants Japan, South Korea,the Netherlands to use existing export controls more aggressively, incl stopping engineers servicing chipmaking tools at advanced semiconductor fabs in 🇨🇳” on.ft.com/4bhQT61

My #PRC counterpart told his #US counterpart to stop arming us & to support unification instead. Well, #Taiwan isn’t #Sudetenland , & our people want to stay free. Want Taiwan to join your dictatorship? Tear down the firewall & open up X, dude. JW

Home products company Williams-Sonoma will be required to pay a record civil penalty of $3.175M for violating a 2020 FTC order requiring the retailer to tell the truth about whether the products it sells are “Made in USA” — Williams-Sonoma claimed its products were made in the US…

You wonder why someone flys across the Pacific just to hear that

Why should we worry so much about Chinas ambitions beyond Taiwan?

Because they’re building a military for precisely that.

“They’re also using space to make their terrestrial forces more precise, more lethal, and more far-ranging,” Whiting said.” 1/ washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense…

Two 🇨🇳 nationals, Han Li, aka Anson Li, and Lin Chen, have been charged with crimes related to a conspiracy to illegally export US technology, including a machine manufactured by California-based Dynatex International that is used to process silicon wafer microchips, to…