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For new Australians like me, it is the quiet proof that democracy — for all its flaws, frustrations, and noice — is still something worth believing in. Here is my first-time voting experience. abc.net.au/news/2025-05-0…

Japan and the U.S. disagreed on the terms of the trade negotiations on Thursday, Nikkei reported, citing officials familiar with the matter. U.S. did not include the tariffs on cars, steel and aluminum in the potential deal, while Japan requested a broader package.

Antony Green. What a legend. abc.net.au/news/2025-05-0…

There is a major election story that keeps not being picked up on. Sure, Labor won heaps more seats than in the past. Sure, the Liberals were punished for an embarrassing campaign. Sure, the Greens lost some primary votes. Most importantly though, the share of primary votes to

New Secretary-General was first given rural postings to gather experience as provincial party secretary focused on poverty alleviation, then recalled to the Center to serve as head of the Organization Department, to deepen his knowledge of the party-state machine & build networks

US, UK, Japan diplomatic contingents in Taiwan are bigger than ever asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… via Nikkei Asia

US-China trade clash risks making Europe the dumping ground for cheap goods bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via James Mayger William Horobin

Chinese carbon emissions indeed appear to have leveled off. A peak into a plateau, perhaps, but a peak nonetheless.🥳 As highlighted in the thread, this is a *structural* decline. It's NOT caused by power usage decreasing (which naturally allows less coal use) like in the past.

The easiest way to spot a Japanese journalist is to see if they’re carrying a Panasonic “Let’s Note.” Loved the one I had 20 years ago in grad school but am struggling to believe they were still making them with VGA ports.

Nikkei reports that the number of Japanese children studying in China decreased 11% from 2024 levels as of this spring, one year after the knife attack on a Japanese mother and her child which resulted in the death of a Chinese woman. nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

MOFCOM reiterated the same position at the press con today in response to question from James Mayger Bloomberg, but declined to say whether the Vietnam deal is deemed as "a deal that sacrifices China’s interests in exchange for so-called tariff reductions".

Detailed thread looking at the “transshipping” in the Vietnam trade deal Similar to what I was trying to say here: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Japan to export used destroyers to Philippines to deter China, Yomiuri reports reuters.com/world/china/ja…

Off the Beaten Path: Intestines and Lions in Shishi A few weeks ago I took the chance to visit Shishi for an afternoon. It's a small Fujian coastal city, mainly known for its garments industry - both production and distribution. But I had a different reason to visit. 🧵

It’s not everyday that you get to sit near a member of a kamikaze squadron. Tatsukuma Ueno, now 97, moved to Japan’s puppet state of Manchuria as a primary school kid. His dad was a businessman who went bankrupt and threw his lot into a move to a new part of the empire. In an

Reuters: “Large quantities of antimony…have poured into the United States from Thailand and Mexico since China barred U.S. shipments last year, according to customs and shipping records, which show at least one Chinese-owned company is involved.” reuters.com/business/autos…

New: Chinese firms aim to install ~115,000 advanced Nvidia chips in dozens of AI data centers. Construction is underway. DeepSeek wants to collaborate What’s unclear is how they plan to get hardware that the US has effectively banned from sale to China 🧵bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…

China ended the first half of the year with a record trade surplus of about $586 billion after exports to the US began to stabilize, with factories riding out the tariff rollercoaster that upended global commerce. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

While Anthony Albanese’s visit to China was framed around economics, the stakes were far broader. On the latest Bloomberg Australia Podcast, Rebecca Jones talks with James Mayger in Beijing about what wasn’t said in the official statements and photo ops. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

EU urges China to open up after summit yielding little progress bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Jorge Valero James Mayger