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@ZichenWanghere from @CCG_org on reasons behind #China's position on #Russia-#Ukraine conflict & what the West could do to get China on its side: "I see that many in the West insist that China has enormous leverage to pressure Moscow but the reality is much more difficult." 🧵: 
"Whenever a Chinese person looks at China on the world map, he or she sees an overbearing Russia, a huge country on top of China. The entire 20th century, #Russia has had an enormous impact and influence on China."
"After a lot of problems, only in the past ten years or so, the two countries have become close geopolitical partners, especially against what they perceive as US containment and encirclement. "
Welcome to day 2 of the 5th World Chatbots & Voice Summit, hosted the the beautiful city of #Berlin
I'll be keeping this thread going to cover all the presentations and learnings of the day.
As co-chair, I'll be looking after the chatbot track, today.
#chatbotvoice2023
I'll be keeping this thread going to cover all the presentations and learnings of the day.
As co-chair, I'll be looking after the chatbot track, today.
#chatbotvoice2023
First up, Alin from @SapienceS2P
Talking about how to deliver value and a competitive edge through customised chatbot solutions
SapienceS2P is an #SAP procurement consultancy
Talking about how to deliver value and a competitive edge through customised chatbot solutions
SapienceS2P is an #SAP procurement consultancy
Taking us through their #procurement chatbot, Sapience Satori, which can integrate with #ChatGPT, most SAP APIs and also communication channels - #teams #slack #whatsapp
Last night in the #EPlenary @d_boeselager was probably the first MEP ever to use generative AI to write his speech. #1nt #CAI
For a look behind the scenes, a 🧵
europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/vod…
For a look behind the scenes, a 🧵
europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/vod…
As if a general AI speech was not enough of a challenge for the @EP_Interpreters, Mr Boeselager asked the AI to tell him how to regulate AI in Shakespearean English.
Humor and poetry, interpreters’ favourite snack, right?! 😅
Humor and poetry, interpreters’ favourite snack, right?! 😅
Luckily, @EP_Interpreters and @Europarl_EN, can rely on a document and speech management system for meeting preparation and @d_boeselager was kind enough to upload his speech hours before delivery.
Otra Final de #Racing. Esta vez por la #SupercopaInternacional, otra Copa Nacional🇦🇷, en busca de su título 39.
🔝Desde 2014 a 2022 jugó 8 partidos q definían un título a nivel local (3 por Liga y 4 por Copas). Ganó 4 (2 Ligas-2 Copas).
Será la 9ª definición en 9 años 🔽
🔝Desde 2014 a 2022 jugó 8 partidos q definían un título a nivel local (3 por Liga y 4 por Copas). Ganó 4 (2 Ligas-2 Copas).
Será la 9ª definición en 9 años 🔽
En ese lapso (2014-2022) #Racing es el SEGUNDO equipo que más puntos logró en el fútbol argentino.
En la Final de la #SupercopaInternacional que se jugará en Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 se enfrentarán los 2 mejores clubes a nivel local de los últimos años.
En la Final de la #SupercopaInternacional que se jugará en Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 se enfrentarán los 2 mejores clubes a nivel local de los últimos años.
Los 8️⃣ torneos en los que #Racing definió títulos (2014-2022)
⭐️🇦🇷Liga
🏆🇦🇷Copa Nacional
✅Liga 2014⭐️🇦🇷
❌Copa Bicentenario 2016🏆🇦🇷
✅Liga 2018-19⭐️🇦🇷
✅Trofeo Campeones 2019🏆🇦🇷
❌Supercopa Arg 2019🏆🇦🇷
❌Copa de la Liga 2021🏆🇦🇷
❌Liga 2022⭐️🇦🇷
✅Trofeo Campeones 2022🏆🇦🇷
⭐️🇦🇷Liga
🏆🇦🇷Copa Nacional
✅Liga 2014⭐️🇦🇷
❌Copa Bicentenario 2016🏆🇦🇷
✅Liga 2018-19⭐️🇦🇷
✅Trofeo Campeones 2019🏆🇦🇷
❌Supercopa Arg 2019🏆🇦🇷
❌Copa de la Liga 2021🏆🇦🇷
❌Liga 2022⭐️🇦🇷
✅Trofeo Campeones 2022🏆🇦🇷
6 months anniversary of @colonylab! 🥳
Born at the top of the bull market, now thriving in the bear market. It has been quite a journey already!🔺
A thread to review what has been achieved and what’s next! A big thank you to our amazing community 🤗
🧵Thread to celebrate!
1/21
Born at the top of the bull market, now thriving in the bear market. It has been quite a journey already!🔺
A thread to review what has been achieved and what’s next! A big thank you to our amazing community 🤗
🧵Thread to celebrate!
1/21
To start with, the team is glad to build on #Avalanche. It’s a robust platform, with amazing uptime & performances! 💯
From a development perspective we couldn’t ask for more (almost 😉)!
Many other platforms can’t say the same so I want to highlight this one! 🚀
2/21
From a development perspective we couldn’t ask for more (almost 😉)!
Many other platforms can’t say the same so I want to highlight this one! 🚀
2/21
The nascent #Avalanche community is amazing & everyone is starting to realize it.
We’re going through hardship together and you all know the destination! 💫
It’s a pleasure to ship innovative features with @colonylab for our beloved community! 🙌🏼
3/21
We’re going through hardship together and you all know the destination! 💫
It’s a pleasure to ship innovative features with @colonylab for our beloved community! 🙌🏼
3/21
Despite Beijing’s attempts to be neutral and keep the attack WAR #Russia🇷🇺 started against _European_ #Ukraine🇺🇦🌻
far away from its ties with _Europe_ hangs Russia🇷🇺’s invasion heavily over the long-delayed annual #China🇨🇳-#EU🇪🇺 summit on Friday. 1/
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
far away from its ties with _Europe_ hangs Russia🇷🇺’s invasion heavily over the long-delayed annual #China🇨🇳-#EU🇪🇺 summit on Friday. 1/
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
“Now we have made it clear to 🇨🇳 that we also want to talk about Ukraine🇺🇦.”
The stalled #Bilateral_trade_deal🇪🇺🇨🇳 – the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (#CAI) – will be up for discussion from April 1.
The summit was last held in June 2020 and was called off last year 2/
The stalled #Bilateral_trade_deal🇪🇺🇨🇳 – the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (#CAI) – will be up for discussion from April 1.
The summit was last held in June 2020 and was called off last year 2/
It’s been 3 months that @colonylab went live 🔥
I would like to take the opportunity to look at what has been achieved and what’s ahead of us 🧐
The team did an amazing job and is excited to wake up every morning to build Colony for our #Avalanche family 😊
Thread 👇
1/14
I would like to take the opportunity to look at what has been achieved and what’s ahead of us 🧐
The team did an amazing job and is excited to wake up every morning to build Colony for our #Avalanche family 😊
Thread 👇
1/14
In just 3 months @Colonylab reviewed 100+ projects, invested in more than 15, 9 are live & 1 already reached 1bn in TVL! 🔥
More coming!
$1,5M deployed, $1,5M airdropped (at ATH), $10M remaining to be airdropped and soon more! 🚀
ROI on deployed capital >7x ✅
#CLY $CLY
2/14
More coming!
$1,5M deployed, $1,5M airdropped (at ATH), $10M remaining to be airdropped and soon more! 🚀
ROI on deployed capital >7x ✅
#CLY $CLY
2/14
Colony enables protocols to decentralize their Seed/Private-Sale cap-tables by welcoming more than 15 000 CLY Stakers! 🤗
Putting community early at the heart of great projects like
@PlayAscenders @WrestlingVerse @dexalotcom @Platypusdefi @ImperiumEmpires @ProjectDegis…
3/14
Putting community early at the heart of great projects like
@PlayAscenders @WrestlingVerse @dexalotcom @Platypusdefi @ImperiumEmpires @ProjectDegis…
3/14
With their cynical approach to the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 the four chancellors Schmidt (1974-82), Kohl (1982-98), Schröder (1998-2005) and Merkel (2005-21) have done Germany 🇩🇪 a disservice. There is much to be learned from their leadership failures. A short thread 🧵 /1
Chancellor Helmut Kohl is best known for his role in Germany's re-unification. Yet he also helped normalising the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. In 1995 he was the "first Western leader to visit a Chinese military base" /2 nytimes.com/1995/11/09/wor…
Kohl's visit to the People's Liberation Army 196 Infantry Division outside Tianjin was highly symbolic. It was a clear signal to the Chinese Communist Party that the atrocities of 1989 were no longer an obstacle to western business engagement with China /3 scmp.com/article/138269…
.@europarl is in the process of tabling its 1st ever stand-alone report on #Taiwan.
🧵 to unpack its importance: Report is solid indication EP is pushing Brussels to consider upgrading EU-Taiwan ties. But what ‘upgrade’ entails hangs on level of convergence between member states
🧵 to unpack its importance: Report is solid indication EP is pushing Brussels to consider upgrading EU-Taiwan ties. But what ‘upgrade’ entails hangs on level of convergence between member states
The push is backed by a majority of MEPs, led by @bueti @gahler_michael @rglucks1 & more, with shared interest to ensure shift in Brussels on #China is real. This shift has already facilitated reconsidering ties w/Taiwan as a partner, not a ‘sensitive issue’
For now, having a report is more important than its actual content. BUT, report must be a core element of a strategic debate on Taiwan within Europe, which 1. sees TW on its own merit, not only through the lens of China;
We are LIVE tweeting the discussion An Ocean Too Far: The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship with @TheresaAFallon, @wess_mitchell, David Petraeus, @juergenhardt and @SanninoEU. Join us for an engaging session #Raisina2021
.@TheresaAFallon: Russia is increasingly cooperating with China. Will we see the EU and US create a common front against Russia and China? Will NATO play a role in that? #Raisina2021
.@wess_mitchell: The sheer scale of China’s economic and military power will provide the impetus for US and EU to overcome their differences and come more and more into alignment #Raisina2021
It has to be reminded that it did NOT work on #HongKong, where the main driver was treaty expiration, NOT Chinese pressure. Even there, economic, political and military considerations made it unpalatable.(/)
Yet treaty duly expired, since there was no way for the UK to act otherwise. If anything, what should worry #Taiwan is NOT #China. It's #Germany, which is turning into a sort of Neutral player whose goal is to displease no one.(/)
However, Since Germany is #Europe's bank it has a disproportionate influence on policy, hence the soft touch with Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, you name it. Any country where bosses have an Iron hand on trade issues get treated well.(/)
The EU’s neglect of its values with China is not restricted to the flawed #CAI, but systemic in EU-China diplomacy. My new article in the Asia Europe Journal reveals that values are rarely incorporated into EU-China dialogues by EU officials. 1/18 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Through Article 21 of the Lisbon Treaty, EU officials have a constitutional obligation to share the EU’s values. They should be undertaking active & focused actions to systemically promote or ‘mainstream’ the EU’s values in all dialogues with third countries like China. 2/18
Conflicting with the EU’s constitutional standards, analysis of extensive interviews with @EU_EEAS and @EU_Commission officials implementing EU-China diplomatic dialogues, revealed that the promotion of EU values was overwhelmingly absent from these 60+ annual meetings. 3/18
Former German Chancellor Gerhard 'Gazprom' Schroeder has done it again. In a new German-language op-ed for @handelsblatt he argues against a value-based European China policy. What follows is a critique of his simplistic analysis of EU-China relations /1
handelsblatt.com/meinung/gastbe…
handelsblatt.com/meinung/gastbe…
He frames EU-China relations in opposition to the geopolitical rivalry between the US and China, which he likens to a new Cold War.
Schroeder argues for multipolarity, European sovereignty & demands that in future reforms EU member states renounce further sovereignty rights /2
Schroeder argues for multipolarity, European sovereignty & demands that in future reforms EU member states renounce further sovereignty rights /2
When it comes to China he briefly mentions that Beijing has smashed Hong Kong's democracy movement and that religious and ethnic groups are being suppressed. He also recognises the expansionism in the South China Sea. Schroeder calls all of the above a 'controlled offensive' /3
1/ Watch as a purported "journalist" covering East Asia and VP of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondent's Club commits journalistic malpractice on his TL
2/ The article William links has the following block of text. William assumes that most of his audience can't read Chinese so he purposefully mistranslates the text to make China seem like a guilty party in blocking Taiwan's access to COVID vaccines
3/ The text states that Taiwan island's Ministry of Health and Welfare was directly attempting to purchase 5M COVID vaccine doses from BioNTech (和德国BioNTech公司直接洽购500万剂疫苗)...
The 9th #China-#CEE (virtual) 17+1 summit was just concluded.
Beijing's biggest success is that it has proved that 17+1 is not dead. Yet it didn't manage to attract all CEE leaders, despite Xi Jinping's appearance and 🇨🇳 MOFA's desperate actions. (1/4)
Beijing's biggest success is that it has proved that 17+1 is not dead. Yet it didn't manage to attract all CEE leaders, despite Xi Jinping's appearance and 🇨🇳 MOFA's desperate actions. (1/4)
Xi's speech focused on vaccines (only Serbia and Hungary mendioned though), green development & Paris Agreement (eyewink to Brussels). Vague pledges on more foodstuffs imports from CEE, $170bn 5 year import pledge not very credible. No major breakthroughs, definetly. (2/4)
Sectorial co-op will proceed, but that's mostly old wine in new bottles (customs clearance, health, connectivity). Same with Xi's 'flagship projects' (Belgrade-Budapest, Piraeus, Peljesac). No new pledges on development finance, the BRI has apparently stalled in CEE. (3/4)
1/ You may have noticed the faux-progressive Taiwan independence activists being a little more bold lately
2/ That's because their dear leader has figured out a new way to assert relevance on the world stage: by playing chicken with the global economy
3/ But it's not just autos. The DPP has weaponized the entirety of TSMC at this point. I have a source inside the company who can attest to this.
First, the US government and DPP have been collaborating to make sure US cos buy out TSMC's leading edge nodes until 2024
First, the US government and DPP have been collaborating to make sure US cos buy out TSMC's leading edge nodes until 2024
Hearing that TSMC has not only been targeting EU carmakers in this 'shortage', but also stating that it will prioritize auto plants outside China for supply vs those inside China. Clear priority is to induce shutdowns in China's auto sector...
...as well as punish EU firms for signing the #CAI.
This is why you don't leave loaded guns in the hands of small children, and why China (and the EU) won't leave TSMC in the hands of Taiwan separatists.
The adults will be put back in charge, one way or another.
This is why you don't leave loaded guns in the hands of small children, and why China (and the EU) won't leave TSMC in the hands of Taiwan separatists.
The adults will be put back in charge, one way or another.
Indeed, thanks to Taiwan's display of economic hostility, it is now more likely that the EU (and specifically ASML) continues to supply TSMC with EUVL equipment after a Chinese op.
Well done!
Well done!
On 20 Jan @Europarl_EN adopted its annual report on implementation of #CFSP outlining ways fwd for EU in the world, rapporteur @davidmcallister.
#Taiwan plays a much more important role in MEPs’ demands on #China, BUT also includes consideration of TW on its own merits 🧵 1/
#Taiwan plays a much more important role in MEPs’ demands on #China, BUT also includes consideration of TW on its own merits 🧵 1/
ding ding ding. That's because if the global military hegemon is also the world's largest net debtor, then you end up with a never-ending stream of policies to drive capital stock in the frontiers into funding deficits in the imperial core
Indeed, this call for gov investments in US technology is a recognition that the old model of spooking Asian/Arab/Euro investors into chasing yield in US capital markets is fading and a new source of funding is needed to tide things over until the US dismantles China's economy
If you look at US export blacklists and investment bans, it's obvious the US is desperate to spook global capital flows into avoiding China's economy and instead keep funding deficits in the US imperial core
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ft.com/content/5a7aac…
2/7
👉We should have first discussed 🇪🇺 political goals toward 🇨🇳, thereby searching for a democratic consensus on this issue. On this basis, we could have renewed the EC’s mandate to negotiate #CAI
👉We should have first discussed 🇪🇺 political goals toward 🇨🇳, thereby searching for a democratic consensus on this issue. On this basis, we could have renewed the EC’s mandate to negotiate #CAI
3/7
👉An agreement was signed and the lack of a democratic consensus in relation to EU strategy toward China means that she will be the subject of political dispute in Europe, both in member states and in the European Parliament.
👉An agreement was signed and the lack of a democratic consensus in relation to EU strategy toward China means that she will be the subject of political dispute in Europe, both in member states and in the European Parliament.
According to this German-language report by @wiwo (paywalled) Germany seems to have been offered a side deal for Deutsche Telekom as a reward for German Chancellor Merkel’s unequivocal support for the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment #CAI /1
In the key paragraph about the 🇨🇳🇩🇪 side deal the @wiwo reports that according to EU insiders "China is willing to provide Deutsche Telekom a mobile phone license, which would be a first for a foreign company". In 5 years Deutsche Telekom may even own infrastructure in China /2
MOFCOM just issued its first order for 2021: Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extra-territorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures. Key message:
We are going to prohibit firms from complying with foreign laws prohibiting transactions with Chinese firms.
We are going to prohibit firms from complying with foreign laws prohibiting transactions with Chinese firms.
Key provisions:
1. The legislative basis is National Security Law;
2. Chinese firms and individuals are required to report foreign sanctions;
3. MOFCOM may issue injunctions prohibiting firms and individuals from recognizing, enforcing and complying with foreign sanctions.
1. The legislative basis is National Security Law;
2. Chinese firms and individuals are required to report foreign sanctions;
3. MOFCOM may issue injunctions prohibiting firms and individuals from recognizing, enforcing and complying with foreign sanctions.
4. Chinese firms suffering loss from another party's compliance with foreign sanctions can sue for damages in Chinese courts.
Today is the day. ‘How China Loses’ is out in the US! It was a long haul with journeys to China, South Sudan, Argentina, Japan, & around Western Europe. A thread with some memorable quotes from scholars, diplomats, managers, & activists I met on the way. amazon.com/How-China-Lose…
‘How can China call it non-interference when people are being killed?’ Henry Odwar, a South Sudanese MP, on China’s checkered legacy in the Sudans, where Beijing's military & financial support to Sudan fuelled the killing & displacement of South Sudanese civilians #SinoAfrica
‘Let me put it this way, nobody hates money’. A Chinese diplomat in Argentina on why Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative would power through political risks from new leadership in Buenos Aires. #BRI #BeltandRoad
"Ericsson’s relationship with China spans more than 125 years. Few other global companies—or nations—have equally long relations with China"
Going native could be part of the problem, as MNCs can become entangled in the Chinese political bureaucracy /1
naringslivshistoria.se/en/cfn-nyheter…
Going native could be part of the problem, as MNCs can become entangled in the Chinese political bureaucracy /1
naringslivshistoria.se/en/cfn-nyheter…
@METhorley and I looked at MNC-host government relations through the prism of the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) corruption scandal in our co-authored article for the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (JCCA) /2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
We found that normative bargaining leverage (the use of standards and norms, considered legitimate by both sides, to gain advantage or protect one’s position) in the PR China is illusory and that the Chinese party-state possesses far greater negative bargaining leverage ... /3
