Jeremy A. Garlick Nothing nefarious about the MP7 educational device as you can buy it online on Taobao (Alibaba's e-commerce platform) in China. In China students in kindergarten and primary school cannot bring smart phones or smart watches to school. So the only way for electronic device

China is changing the international system by encouraging countries in the Global South to copy its practices. In this article, we show how China does this. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ha-Joon Chang in today's FT: "Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned."

Ha-Joon Chang at his best!: "Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned ... This is not education. It’s indoctrination." ft.com/content/9aabb4…

After years of decline, Belt and Road engagement in Africa is surging, up 395%, with Nigerian projects alone driving a more than twelvefold increase. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/afric…

Looks like a good read.

Italian PM Meloni on Wednesday criticised EU competitiveness, saying the bloc is "increasingly doomed to geopolitical irrelevance." Meloni said the EU is "unable to respond effectively to the challenges of competitiveness posed by China and the US" yahoo.com/news/articles/…

China is changing the international system by encouraging countries in the Global South to copy its practices. In this article, we show how. Open access: China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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‘There is only one player’: why China is becoming a world leader in green energy theguardian.com/environment/20…

China's trade data for August out this morning - I've run the numbers on what it says for Europe. Big picture: In August vs a year earlier, China's trade surplus with the EU jumped 22.5% to US$28.9bn (in a single month) In the first 8 months of 2025, it's up 21.5% to US$197bn

Full article: China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The level of vitriol I’ve faced for this post on US imperial power exceeds anything I’ve experienced. It’s clear that many people cannot stomach the fact that the US is the undisputed leader in supporting violence and repression abroad — yes, that is what has characterised a

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