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🇮🇩[Indonesia calls for NAM and UN reform]
“We must break the habit of spending resources to produce thousands of pages of documents that offer no direct benefit to the people,” Arrmanatha stated firmly.He emphasized that NAM’s continued relevance depends on a strong and fair multilateral system, rooted in the United Nations Charter and international law.He called on NAM to take a leading role in advocating for UN reform and a more inclusive global order, one that upholds justice and the rule of law, particularly in support of the Palestinian people.Arrmanatha also encouraged NAM to deepen South-South cooperation, including by maximizing the role of the NAM Centre for South-South Technical Cooperation in Jakarta, which serves as a hub for development collaboration and knowledge exchange among developing nation”
🇺🇳[UN calls for reform]
“Presiding over the meeting, Assembly President Annalena Baerbock (Germany) stressed that both tracks share a common purpose: to make the United Nations “more effective, more efficient and ultimately stronger”. But, she also warned, “business as usual will not suffice”.
https://press.un.org/en/2025/ga12728.doc.htm
🤖[AI Global value chains and the Global South]
“Lessons From the Margins: Contextualizing, Reimagining, and Hacking Generative AI in the Global South:
“The impacts of generative AI (Gen AI) in regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America—with their diverse historical and sociopolitical contexts—are often overshadowed by the hyped and universalizing promises of the technology. Global South regions are strategic sites within the global AI value chain grappling with issues of resource exploitation, digital labor outsourcing, and environmental impact”
https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lrqoe1ny/release/2
🇮🇳𓇲 [OPINION: Resources being pumped into Indian chips…fueling multi-aligned tech?]
“Western buyers are interested. The US signed a semiconductor MOU labeling India as a “trusted” partner. Unlike China, India is not trying to create proprietary standards to protect a domestic industry but is working with US and European standards. Western investments are protected by rule of law, again in contrast to China”
🇵🇪🇮🇩[OPINION: Peru-Indonesia trade deal illustrates growing South-South trade]
“earlier this year, Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous nation and a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, joined the BRICS group as a full member—an event that strengthens one of the key platforms for the Global South.” https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/2025/10/24/jorge-heine-on-peru-indonesia-and-the-rise-of-south-south-trade/
🇧🇷🇿🇦🇮🇩[OPINION: Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa and multilateralism]
“Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed the commitment to strengthen a multilateral system that upholds peaceful resolution of conflicts through dialogue during their separate bilateral meetings in Jakarta this week.”
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202510/25/WS68fc0e51a310f735438b6dbc.html
🇨🇳🕵🏻♂️[China Infosec data breach – a peak into its capabilities]
“MXRN says the company leaked over 12,000 classified documents, “including information on Chinese state-owned cyber weapons, internal tools, and global target lists.”
The trove also apparently included evidence of Remote Access Trojans that can crack Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. The Android code can reportedly extract information from popular Chinese messaging apps, and from Telegram.
Also in the haul was a spreadsheet that lists 80 overseas targets Knownsec has successfully attacked, plus 95GB of immigration data obtained from India, 3TB of call records stolen from South Korean telecom operator LG U Plus, and 459GB of road planning data obtained from Taiwan.”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/09/asia_tech_news_roundup
🇪🇺🇨🇳[News – Huawei and the EU concerns on energy security]
“First it was telecom snooping. Now Europe is growing worried that Huawei could turn the lights off. The Chinese tech giant is at the heart of a brewing storm over the security of Europe’s energy grids. Lawmakers are writing to the European Commission to urge it to “restrict high-risk vendors” from solar energy systems, in a letter seen by POLITICO.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-solar-industry-having-huawei-moment
🇪🇺𓇲 🇨🇳[NEWS: China Nexperia resumes trading]
“China exempts compliant Nexperia chip exports for civilian use, signaling progress in talks with Europe to ease a global auto supply crisis.”
“China will take appropriate measures to ensure the resumption of trade from Nexperia’s facilities in China, allowing production of critical legacy chips to flow to the rest of the world.”
🇨🇳🕰️🇺🇸[NEWS: China accuses US of cyberattack on national time center]
“..the time center is responsible for generating and distributing China’s standard time, in addition to providing timing services to industries such as communications, finance, power, transport and defense.”
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-cyberattacks-allegations-time-b3408ed2352c113904350f80e505ab9f
🇨🇳🧭[NEWS – New China 5 year Plan unveiled]
”Forward-looking plans should be put in place for industries of the future. We need to explore diverse technology roadmaps, typical application scenarios, feasible business models, and market regulation rules and work to foster new drivers of economic growth such as quantum technology, biomanufacturing, hydrogen and nuclear fusion power, brain-computer interfaces, embodied artificial intelligence (AI), and 6G mobile communications. We should introduce new regulation methods, develop venture capital investment, and establish mechanisms to increase funding and share risks in future industries. We should promote the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that use specialized and sophisticated technologies to produce novel and unique products. We should also nurture unicorn companies.”
“We should promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, expand our global network of partnerships, and foster a new type of international relations. (…)We should support the Global South in building strength through unity, step up aid to other countries, and provide the world with more public goods. We must resolutely oppose all hegemonic, high-handed, and bullying acts, defend international fairness and justice, and safeguard the common interests of people around the world. We should champion the common values of all humanity, promote the building of an open, inclusive, clean, and beautiful world of lasting peace, universal security, and common prosperity, and deliver China’s contribution to building a community with a shared future for humanity.”
https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202510/28/content_WS6900adb9c6d00ca5f9a07216.html
📓🇺🇸[RESEARCH VIZ: The authoritarian stack]
“Under the banner of “patriotic tech”, this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules.”
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/ (interactive)
🌍🇨🇳[RESEARCH: Chinese Magnet around Africa: On the alignment incentives ]
“Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Africa is significantly influenced by the host country’s market size, natural resource endowments and political proximity to China. “
[draws on a unique dataset of 604 completed transactions by Chinese enterprises in Africa between 2010 and 2020]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05964-9
🇻🇪🇮🇶[Opinion: Venezuela Sanctions and US hemispherical power]
“The primary objective is ideological and political: overthrowing an independent government in Venezuela that has been both a source of support for other progressive governments and a stumbling block for US plans to impose far-right governments in the region. “
💡[OPINION: Epistemic non-alignment]
“Just as Active Non Alignment (ANA) advocates not accepting a priori the positions of any of the Great Powers, researchers could refuse to accept a priori that Western scientific methods are inherently superior to artistic ways of knowing. ANA’s emphasis on strategic flexibility and multi-alignment translates to methodological pluralism, engaging selectively with different knowledge traditions without hierarchical arrangements.”
🎙️[Podcast – third world networks the crisis of neoliberalism]
“Featuring Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on neoliberal globalization. A wide-ranging interview with two important, long-standing Global South leaders.”
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/third-world-networks-w-walden-bello-and-jane-nalunga
🎙️[Podcast – Reducing dependence on US tech]
“Paris Marx celebrates the 300th episode of Tech Won’t Save Us by sharing his reasons to push for digital sovereignty and get off US tech. On top of explaining how that dependence gives the US governments and its tech companies power over us, Paris also provides tips of alternative services to consider migrating to.”
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/300_we_need_to_cut_our_dependence_on_us_tech_heres_how_to_start
From within the network:
📖[Book launch: Jonathan Gray – Public Data Cultures]
“The first part of the book reconsiders data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics.
The second part of the book explores different ways of critically engaging data. This includes making data in response to missing data on police killings, corporate tax avoidance and coal power plants.”
More info: https://jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/public-data-cultures
Get book: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=public-data-cultures–9781509571383
🖼️[RESEARCH: Domenico Fiormonte – Vignettes on emancipation]
Digital Inclusion in an Unequal World: An Emancipatory Manifesto
💸[RESEARCH: Sovereignty as a service]
“This article introduces the concept of sovereignty-as-a-service to describe how BigTech companies, specifically Microsoft, Amazon, and Google/Alphabet, are strategically redefining digital sovereignty through their programs of cloud infrastructure.Drawing on critical discourse analysis of official materials released between 2022 and2023, we show how these companies respond to regulatory pressures, particularly in Europe, by offering modular and branded solutions that frame sovereignty as a technical, legal, and infrastructural matter.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01634437251395003
🛎️[CFP: Workshop on International Relations in the Digital Age]
Organized by the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), University of Bremen, and the International Relations Section (IB-Sektion) of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).
Abstract deadline: 1 December 2025
📚Reading group:
Guilherme Cavalcante Silva and Juan Ortiz Freuler are coordinating a reading group to explore the value of dependency theory for analyzing north-south tech dynamics. If you’re interested, send an email to juanof@protonmail.com , gcsilva@yorku.ca .
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