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The American Toll Booth and the European Industrial Complex:
Europe's Problem Isn’t Just Trump. It’s What America Became.https://geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-toll-booth-and-the-industrial
Europe's Problem Isn’t Just Trump. It’s What America Became.https://geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-toll-booth-and-the-industrial
January 21, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The American Toll Booth and the European Industrial Complex:
Europe's Problem Isn’t Just Trump. It’s What America Became.https://geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-toll-booth-and-the-industrial
Europe's Problem Isn’t Just Trump. It’s What America Became.https://geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-toll-booth-and-the-industrial
Donroe’s Rotor: Washington’s Complicated Meeting with China in Latin America. Can the US do hemispheric strategy in the Southern Cone like it's 1957? substack.com/home/post/p-...
Donroe’s Rotor: Washington’s Complicated Meeting with China in Latin America
Can the US do hemispheric strategy in the Southern Cone like it's 1957?
substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Donroe’s Rotor: Washington’s Complicated Meeting with China in Latin America. Can the US do hemispheric strategy in the Southern Cone like it's 1957? substack.com/home/post/p-...
Forget decoupling. German automakers go back to China to stay alive in the EV race.
Geoeconomic (@geoeconomic)
Forget decoupling. German automakers go back to China to stay alive in the EV race.
substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Forget decoupling. German automakers go back to China to stay alive in the EV race.
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
Macron in Chengdu
The yard keeps growing. And the fence around China keeps shrinking.
geoeconomic.substack.com/p/macron-in-...
The yard keeps growing. And the fence around China keeps shrinking.
geoeconomic.substack.com/p/macron-in-...
Macron in Chengdu
The yard keeps growing. And the fence around China keeps shrinking.
geoeconomic.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Macron in Chengdu
The yard keeps growing. And the fence around China keeps shrinking.
geoeconomic.substack.com/p/macron-in-...
The yard keeps growing. And the fence around China keeps shrinking.
geoeconomic.substack.com/p/macron-in-...
US is playing big old imperial haggling games in Europe this week end. But go to the monetary engine room is see that monetary hegemony is over. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/so-this-is...
So This is How an Empire Coughs: Notes From the Financial Multipolarity Birthroom
Don't hold your breath for a monetray hegemony transition, say Tobias Pforr, Fabian Pape, Johannes Petry
geoeconomic.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
US is playing big old imperial haggling games in Europe this week end. But go to the monetary engine room is see that monetary hegemony is over. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/so-this-is...
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🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Forget derisking. 2025 is about the the quiet MAGA-fication of the European mainstream, one green regulation rollback and green subsidy cut at a time. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-wartbu...
The Wartburg Syndrome
How the Old Continent Risks Becoming the New East Germany
geoeconomic.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Forget derisking. 2025 is about the the quiet MAGA-fication of the European mainstream, one green regulation rollback and green subsidy cut at a time. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-wartbu...
When Adam Smith was first translated in China and why that matters today geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-long-m...
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
When Adam Smith was first translated in China and why that matters today geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-long-m...
Theory: Economic decline feeds the far right. Romanians be like
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Theory: Economic decline feeds the far right. Romanians be like
To survive in the bond market, libertarianism needs subsidies. My latest geoeconomic.substack.com/p/spare-a-st...
Spare a State Subsidy for the Chainsaw Libertarian
How the American State Keeps Milei’s Libertarian Revolution Solvent
geoeconomic.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
To survive in the bond market, libertarianism needs subsidies. My latest geoeconomic.substack.com/p/spare-a-st...
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
For most of the post-Cold War era, Europe never intended to build autonomy in critical minerals. Why would it?https://geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-smelter-and-the-sovereign
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
For most of the post-Cold War era, Europe never intended to build autonomy in critical minerals. Why would it?https://geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-smelter-and-the-sovereign
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already 10+ years ago wade jacoby said that europe was a trade dependent status quo power in a world in which the status quo was disintegrating and trade was stagnating and this (car industry lobbying) is one big reason why the EU is not up to the challenge
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
@lucien-mathieu.bsky.social: "Part 2️⃣ - Analysis of the leaked car industry paper: carmakers’ demands would let EV sales stagnate for the rest of the decade❗
T&E analysed and leaked a paper by the European car industry lobby ACEA and found a Christmas list of loopholes (more than 10!)."
T&E analysed and leaked a paper by the European car industry lobby ACEA and found a Christmas list of loopholes (more than 10!)."
October 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
already 10+ years ago wade jacoby said that europe was a trade dependent status quo power in a world in which the status quo was disintegrating and trade was stagnating and this (car industry lobbying) is one big reason why the EU is not up to the challenge
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...
Central Banking for the End of Times
Frankfurt measured the risk, Beijing moved the money, and Washington looked away.
geoeconomic.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...
China’s approach to venture capital isn’t Silicon Valley 2.0 — it’s industrial strategy with a term sheet. And it explains better than subsidies or state banks why the country is a technological innovation superpower. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/vc-a-la-ccp
VC à la CCP
How Beijing fused planning and venture capital, outflanking the West’s innovation game
geoeconomic.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
China’s approach to venture capital isn’t Silicon Valley 2.0 — it’s industrial strategy with a term sheet. And it explains better than subsidies or state banks why the country is a technological innovation superpower. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/vc-a-la-ccp
Washington thought coercion would keep China down. But as @yelingtan.bsky.social @Mark Dallas @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social show, it did the opposite. Dependence became danger — and China learned to turn US pressure into its own power. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/america-th...
America, the Bumerang Master
How Washington Built Chinese Leverage Over...Washington (on Tan, Dallas, Farrell, Newman)
geoeconomic.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Washington thought coercion would keep China down. But as @yelingtan.bsky.social @Mark Dallas @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social show, it did the opposite. Dependence became danger — and China learned to turn US pressure into its own power. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/america-th...
China is not just building clean energy faster than anyone else. It is trying to become something new.
Call it the electrostate. Still, big caveats loom, says Chris Saltmarsh in a superb @ripejournal.bsky.social article geoeconomic.substack.com/p/party-stat...
Call it the electrostate. Still, big caveats loom, says Chris Saltmarsh in a superb @ripejournal.bsky.social article geoeconomic.substack.com/p/party-stat...
Party-State Decarbonisation
The contradictions of China's decarbonisation
geoeconomic.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
China is not just building clean energy faster than anyone else. It is trying to become something new.
Call it the electrostate. Still, big caveats loom, says Chris Saltmarsh in a superb @ripejournal.bsky.social article geoeconomic.substack.com/p/party-stat...
Call it the electrostate. Still, big caveats loom, says Chris Saltmarsh in a superb @ripejournal.bsky.social article geoeconomic.substack.com/p/party-stat...
Friends, I have a substack with my thoughts and others on current events and megatrends from an international political economy perspective. geoeconomic.substack.com
Geoeconomic | Substack
Cornel Ban, associate prof at Copenhagen Business School and fellow at Boston University's China Initiative at the Global Development Program. Click to read Geoeconomic, a Substack publication with hu...
geoeconomic.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Friends, I have a substack with my thoughts and others on current events and megatrends from an international political economy perspective. geoeconomic.substack.com
Thread. China’s GGFs are the quiet giants of industrial policy. While Western debates obsess over subsidies, Beijing has built a massive state–market financial infrastructure to channel capital into strategic tech sectors. Let’s unpack.
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds by Xuan Li &
@cornelban.bsky.social
@cornelban.bsky.social
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds
This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...
www.tandfonline.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Thread. China’s GGFs are the quiet giants of industrial policy. While Western debates obsess over subsidies, Beijing has built a massive state–market financial infrastructure to channel capital into strategic tech sectors. Let’s unpack.
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This new paper by Xuan Li and @cornelban.bsky.social is so great I have a nickname for it and it’s VC à la CCP.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This new paper by Xuan Li and @cornelban.bsky.social is so great I have a nickname for it and it’s VC à la CCP.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds
This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...
www.tandfonline.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No one in European automotive will worry about Chinese EVs now
March 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
No one in European automotive will worry about Chinese EVs now
Must read
to understand the 'green capitalism' part of how the US got here, read our @benbraun.bsky.social account:
colliding macrofinancial regimes - when China's Big Green State meets Biden's Robust Derisking, there is one winner.
New @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
colliding macrofinancial regimes - when China's Big Green State meets Biden's Robust Derisking, there is one winner.
New @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Green macrofinancial regimes
Debates about climate policy have neglected the question of macrofinancial pathways to decarbonisation, not all of which are economically and politically viable. We propose a theory of macrofinanci...
www.tandfonline.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Weiss and Thurbon’s (2021: 477): economic statecraft is when state actions are designed to fend off, outflank, or move in step with clearly defined rival powers’ in key sectors. US and increasingly Europe acknowledge they lost to China on green tech. www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...
EU decorum cracks over green agenda
Normally taciturn officials spar online over climate policy and reveal a deep split within the EU.
www.politico.eu
January 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Weiss and Thurbon’s (2021: 477): economic statecraft is when state actions are designed to fend off, outflank, or move in step with clearly defined rival powers’ in key sectors. US and increasingly Europe acknowledge they lost to China on green tech. www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...