December 2, 2024
🌎🇺🇸 [News: Trump, China and Latin America]
““[Trump’s] tough rhetoric would pile pressure on Latin American countries to curb China’s presence, while Beijing would have an incentive to double down, leaving domestic politics in the region deeply divided”” https://www.ft.com/content/b9cfdae3-c276-4184-adbb-707c5e460fa7
🇺🇸🇨🇳[News: US Chips pressure]
“The update, if accurate, shows the Biden administration is plowing ahead with plans to further crack down on China’s access to semiconductors even as the start of Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s second terms in January approaches.”
“US Department of Commerce has also discussed including controls on the sale of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, an advanced kind of 3D-stacked computer memory component that is often used in high-performance GPUs and customized AI chips.”
https://www.wired.com/story/memory-restrictions-china-advanced-chips
🇪🇺[News: Angela Merkel’s new book with insights into EU tight-rope diplomacy]
🇺🇸🇪🇺On Musk “If a person like him [Musk] owns 60% of all satellites orbiting in space, then that has to be a huge concern for us in addition to the political issues,” Merkel said.” https://www.reuters.com/world/germanys-merkel-laments-influence-big-business-trump-2024-11-22/
🇺🇦🇪🇺A view from Ukraine: “Merkel took into account the interests and demands of her economic partner Russia more than the interests of Ukraine. Her policy towards Russia can be called a policy of appeasement,” Merezhko said.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-ukraine-germany-russia-war-oleksandr-merezhko
🇷🇺🇪🇺A view from Russia: ““The United States was chiefly interested in its own economic interests, as it wanted to export to Europe LNG obtained through fracking.” This pretty much establishes that it was by premeditated design that Washington leveraged the Russian military operation in Ukraine as a convenient pretext to turn economic competitor Germany – and the EU more generally – into a vassal” https://www.rt.com/news/608402-merkel-us-nord-stream-narrative/
🇪🇺🇷🇺[News – Undersea cable fuels EU / Russia tensions]
“”Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed” “The damage …could require five to 15 days to repair””
DW – Hybrid warfare on seabed?
“The crew of a Chinese freighter, along with its Russian captain, are now suspected of sabotage. The cargo ship is believed to have passed both sites when the damage occurred. Citing public maritime data, the Swedish television channel SVT reported that the ship sailed from a Russian port. It was also said to have temporarily switched off the transponder required to determine its position.
According to the website marinetraffic.com, the ship is currently anchored in open water between the coasts of Sweden and Denmark. The Danish authorities report that their navy is closely monitoring the vessel.”
🪸 [COP29 -Climate Crisis widens gap between North and South]
Rich nations pledged to contribute at least $300 billion annually to the global fight against climate change as UN climate talks came to a contentious end early Sunday morning in Baku. Developing nations who had sought over $1 trillion in assistance called the agreement “insulting” and argued it did not give them the vital resources they required to truly address the complexities of the climate crisis
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157416
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
🇺🇸🇨🇳China-US competitions and coalition-building:
“The two main determinants of the building and maintenance of the digital coalition are the security dependency of allies on the USA and the technological stranglehold in the digital relationship. Security dependency determines the likelihood of coalition construction; the higher the dependency, the more willing allies will be to respond to the dominant state’s digital security narrative and mobilisation”
Xinghua Liu, Coalition Building and Sino–US Competition in the Digital Era, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 4, 2024, Pages 425–448, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae022
📱🪐The digitalization imperative:
“This commentary argues that communities in the majority world should have the autonomy to determine their political, economic, technological, and cultural pathways, ensuring their right to self-determination.”
Ricaurte, P. (2024). The digitalization imperative. Dialogues on Digital Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640241262263
📖Clashing visions of Non-Alignment – Cuba vs Yugoslavia
“The article’s main claim is that Belgrade’s tensions with Havana were not only the result of the latter’s alignment with Moscow, but also the product of a broad number of disagreements stemming from their essentially different visions of domestic, regional, and global affairs, as well as from their increasingly incompatible needs in the context of the Global Cold War.”
Cosovschi, A. (2024). Clashing visions of non-alignment: the origins of the Cuban-Yugoslav conflict. Cold War History, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2024.2341229
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