Tom Hancock
@tomhancock.bsky.social
China/economics etc, fmr Bloomberg/FT etc
European reaction appears similar to Panama 1989. "Britain and France joined the United States... Of NATO’s 16 members, only Spain voted for the resolution... It won the support of all other members of the 15-nation body except Finland." www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
U.N. Assembly Condemns U.S. Invasion
The General Assembly on Friday denounced the U.S. invasion of Panama by a vote of 75 to 20, with 40 abstentions, in what was seen nonetheless as a surprisingly strong measure of support for Washington...
www.latimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM
European reaction appears similar to Panama 1989. "Britain and France joined the United States... Of NATO’s 16 members, only Spain voted for the resolution... It won the support of all other members of the 15-nation body except Finland." www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
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Trump, Rubio & Miller are directing a foreign policy increasingly defined by big apparent violations of international law
Govt experts on that law are quitting or feeling silenced:
www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
For US personnel + US influence, huge risks here..
Govt experts on that law are quitting or feeling silenced:
www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
For US personnel + US influence, huge risks here..
State Department Experts Fear Retaliation For Questioning Trump And Rubio
“Imagine being afraid to provide what you think is appropriate legal advice," one former attorney told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Trump, Rubio & Miller are directing a foreign policy increasingly defined by big apparent violations of international law
Govt experts on that law are quitting or feeling silenced:
www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
For US personnel + US influence, huge risks here..
Govt experts on that law are quitting or feeling silenced:
www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
For US personnel + US influence, huge risks here..
Quite like this. Thinking about how to think about economics of structural transformation where formal models offer little help academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Quite like this. Thinking about how to think about economics of structural transformation where formal models offer little help academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...
key line here "The requirements are relaxed for advanced chip production lines, where domestically developed equipment is not yet fully available" www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Exclusive: China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers, sources say
The mandate is one of the most significant measures Beijing has introduced to wean itself off reliance on foreign technology.
www.reuters.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
key line here "The requirements are relaxed for advanced chip production lines, where domestically developed equipment is not yet fully available" www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest.
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest.
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
Reminder that Beijing isn't all-powerful: ""It's a sensitive area ... But people who get cheap electricity are still mining." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reminder that Beijing isn't all-powerful: ""It's a sensitive area ... But people who get cheap electricity are still mining." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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The contrast with China is also interesting. Coal generation is also down so far this year in China, but electricity demand is still growing strongly.
robbieandrew.github.io/china/
robbieandrew.github.io/china/
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The contrast with China is also interesting. Coal generation is also down so far this year in China, but electricity demand is still growing strongly.
robbieandrew.github.io/china/
robbieandrew.github.io/china/
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Harvard's endowment now has almost $443 million invested in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Harvard's endowment now has almost $443 million invested in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF
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Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Its all subjective/positional of course, but this piece accords well with my own sense of the vibe in China right now sinocities.substack.com/p/visiting-c...
Ambition and Anxiety: Visiting China During the Age of AI
AI, Ambition, and Anxiety.
sinocities.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Its all subjective/positional of course, but this piece accords well with my own sense of the vibe in China right now sinocities.substack.com/p/visiting-c...
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This paper shows: the 2022 energy crisis led to record global profits for fossil fuel companies. The US gained the most, with claims on US$301 billion, exceeding its US$267 billion investment in low-carbon energy. Half of profits went to the top1%, mainly through stock ownership
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This paper shows: the 2022 energy crisis led to record global profits for fossil fuel companies. The US gained the most, with claims on US$301 billion, exceeding its US$267 billion investment in low-carbon energy. Half of profits went to the top1%, mainly through stock ownership
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Taiwan says it expects no significant impact from China's new export controls on rare earth minerals, as it uses different rare earths in chip manufacturing (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Taiwan says it expects no significant impact from China's new export controls on rare earth minerals, as it uses different rare earths in chip manufacturing (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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The @metoffice.gov.uk use weather station observations to reconstruct changes in UK average temperature since 1884.
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social produce the ERA5 reanalysis which reconstructs global weather every hour back to 1950 using a weather forecast model.
Their estimates agree. Just sayin'.
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social produce the ERA5 reanalysis which reconstructs global weather every hour back to 1950 using a weather forecast model.
Their estimates agree. Just sayin'.
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The @metoffice.gov.uk use weather station observations to reconstruct changes in UK average temperature since 1884.
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social produce the ERA5 reanalysis which reconstructs global weather every hour back to 1950 using a weather forecast model.
Their estimates agree. Just sayin'.
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social produce the ERA5 reanalysis which reconstructs global weather every hour back to 1950 using a weather forecast model.
Their estimates agree. Just sayin'.
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Belgium just flipped the switch on what’s billed as mainland Europe’s largest battery storage project — a big win for grid reliability and renewables.
ENGIE + Sungrow Europe have commissioned 100 MW/400 MWh at Vilvoorde (first phase of 200 MW/800 MWh due end-2025).
www.ess-news.com/2025/10/01/l...
ENGIE + Sungrow Europe have commissioned 100 MW/400 MWh at Vilvoorde (first phase of 200 MW/800 MWh due end-2025).
www.ess-news.com/2025/10/01/l...
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Belgium just flipped the switch on what’s billed as mainland Europe’s largest battery storage project — a big win for grid reliability and renewables.
ENGIE + Sungrow Europe have commissioned 100 MW/400 MWh at Vilvoorde (first phase of 200 MW/800 MWh due end-2025).
www.ess-news.com/2025/10/01/l...
ENGIE + Sungrow Europe have commissioned 100 MW/400 MWh at Vilvoorde (first phase of 200 MW/800 MWh due end-2025).
www.ess-news.com/2025/10/01/l...
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A fantastic photo essay about photographing the vanishing Third Front factories of China.
I am a third-generation of the Third Front Movement. There’s a saying that captures the experience of families like ours: “First we devote our youth, then we devote our whole lives — in the end, even the futures of our children and grandchildren are tied to the cause.”
The Factory Workers Who Helped Build a Nation
A photographer strives to protect the memory of China’s Third Front Movement and the families who dedicated their lives to it.
www.sixthtone.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
A fantastic photo essay about photographing the vanishing Third Front factories of China.
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China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.
China, world’s largest carbon polluting nation, announces new climate goal to cut emissions
China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.
bit.ly
September 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.
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📢 The first treaty to protect marine diversity in international waters will come into force early next year after being ratified by the 60th nation, Morocco.
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👉 欢迎告知问题、提出建议
Nations ratify the world's first treaty to protect international waters
apnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
📢 The first treaty to protect marine diversity in international waters will come into force early next year after being ratified by the 60th nation, Morocco.
👉 欢迎告知问题、提出建议
👉 欢迎告知问题、提出建议
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A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts reut.rs/46nAyvo
UN inquiry finds top Israeli officials incited genocide in Gaza
A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had incited these acts - accusations that Israel called scandalous.
reut.rs
September 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts reut.rs/46nAyvo
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China is expected to announce its new NDC by September 24, two sources told Reuters. #ParisAgreement #2035
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
China's former climate envoy to meet with EU to revive flailing UN pact, sources say
China's former veteran climate envoy, who previously secured two pivotal climate agreements with the United States, will meet with the EU's top green transition official on Tuesday to resuscitate flailing international climate negotiations ahead of the COP30 summit in Brazil, three sources told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
China is expected to announce its new NDC by September 24, two sources told Reuters. #ParisAgreement #2035
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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NEW | China’s clean energy boom and rapid electrification are creating the conditions for a FOSSIL DECLINE at home and abroad⚡
Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
September 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW | China’s clean energy boom and rapid electrification are creating the conditions for a FOSSIL DECLINE at home and abroad⚡
Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
Fossil use in end-use sectors plateaued in 2015--while electricity use grew 65%, becoming central to 🇨🇳’s energy system.
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
Was quoted in this nice SCMP piece on Chinese biotech www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s biotech industry is gaining on the US. Can tariffs hold them back?
Pharmaceutical firms in China have grown fast, but geopolitics and a long head start could keep US-based leaders at industry apex - for now.
www.scmp.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Was quoted in this nice SCMP piece on Chinese biotech www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
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The Kremlin released a video on Monday of Indian PM Narendra Modi holding hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who then joined China's Xi Jinping for what appeared to be a very convivial chat, on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin.
September 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The Kremlin released a video on Monday of Indian PM Narendra Modi holding hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who then joined China's Xi Jinping for what appeared to be a very convivial chat, on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin.
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China's revised Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases [传染病防治法] takes effect today. The revision was adopted in April to improve China's legal framework on epidemic response in light of COVID-19.
Here's our earlier coverage:
newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/april-2025...
Here's our earlier coverage:
newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/april-2025...
April 2025: COVID-19 and China’s Newly Revised Infectious Diseases Law
The revision improves interagency coordination & disease reporting, expands local government authority, limits use of severest restrictions, and penalizes noncompliance with epidemic-control measures.
newsletter.npcobserver.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
China's revised Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases [传染病防治法] takes effect today. The revision was adopted in April to improve China's legal framework on epidemic response in light of COVID-19.
Here's our earlier coverage:
newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/april-2025...
Here's our earlier coverage:
newsletter.npcobserver.com/p/april-2025...