Jörg Haas (e)

Great article on the need for Western thinking to come to terms with the Chinese challenge, by @kaiserkuo.bsky.social . I would be sincerely interested in your views and reactions

The Global South Must Claim the Climate Mantle at COP30 Maiara Folly, Jayati Ghosh and Jörg Haas foresee Brazil, India, South Africa, and China filling the leadership vacuum created by the West’s malaise.

Will the Global South – especially Brazil, South Africa, India, and China – step up to fill the climate leadership vacuum left by the West’s rupture? ‪@mafolly.bsky.social‬, Jayati Ghosh, and @jmhaas.bsky.social‬ hope the answer is yes. bit.ly/4mVN4t2

China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future (Gift Article) Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

Fascinating in the @nytimes.com : A visual story of the energy strategies of the USA vs. China. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

📢 ECFR Webinar | Defence without America?
Are Europeans ready to secure their own future?

🗓️ 23 June, 15:00-16:00 CEST
📍 Online | Registration required
📊 New polling from 12 countries
🎙️ Jana Kobzova, Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard
🎛️ Chair: @lykkefriis.bsky.social

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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How the EU Botched its Trade Policy Response Brussels has failed to get to grips with the second Trump administration. It needs to change tack and respond to Trump’s tariffs by meeting force with force.

Excellent piece by @shahinvallee.bsky.social arguing that the EU needs to perform a U-turn in its response to Trumps trade policy ip-quarterly.com/en/how-eu-bo...

YouTube video by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025 - Keynote Adam Tooze

I am thrilled to share with you the keynote on „Sustainable Development and the Crisis of US hegemony“ that @adamtooze.bsky.social gave at the Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025, challenging the antipolitical nature of the SD discourse. A true highlight of the debate youtu.be/NHn9dSQ05JU?...

Will China fulfil its key climate pledge? After a sharp slowdown in progress, China needs stronger targets to meet its Paris Agreement goals

Anybody interested in our common future needs to keep an eye on what happens in China. @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social is the man to follow dialogue.earth/en/climate/w...

Few spots left: attend our side event with Indermit Gill, Penelope Hawkins, HE Yemi Osinbajo, Anahì Wiedenbrüg and Ulrich Volz in Washington DC. Register now: drgr.org/events/kicki...

Germans who wish to fight against antisemitism should take note of @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/3RwWIVk

China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions What might derail it?

China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions
economist.com/business/202...
from The Economist

Harvard shows resistance is possible. But universities must join forces | Jan-Werner Müller Far too many academics are repeating propaganda about a ‘free speech crisis’. It’s time for a shared strategy

"It has become abundantly clear that Trump 2.0 is using a moral panic about “woke” and pro-Palestinian protests as pretexts to subjugate institutions posing multiple threats to aspiring autocrats."
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Frohe Ostern!

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

From the @FT Trade Secrets newsletter

Maybe Denmark should send some troops to Greenland to protect JD Vance and his wife during their visit. There have been threats of an invasion recently.

1/ Just got off the phone with my team in Palestine. Last night's attacks on Gaza are yet another war crime by Israel. Over 400 people—mostly civilians—were killed, many in residential buildings, a designated shelter, and other civilian infrastructure.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

This is not about fighting antisemitism. This is all about silencing opposing views. Today it’s pro-Palestine, tomorrow it’s pro-Ukraine, and then it’s just deporting whomever they don’t like. And then everyone is silent.

First they came for the communists. I did not speak out, I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists. I did not speak out, I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews. I did not speak out, I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

I really wish people would care about Trump using Pinochet's tactics to disappear people for speaking their mind.

Let's be clear. Buying American weapons is a real risk to European security at this point due to political interference. Actually, it's an issue to anyone in the world relying on top US military equipment. Cc @jakluge.de

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

The historical function of Teump is to convince the Germans of the need for more Europe

Tapping @rajakorman.bsky.social ‘s sign today

When the Americans have lost Kallas, you know it's curtains for the transatlantic alliance.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

this is one of those analyses from @adamtooze that are really super-insightful (albeit terrifying in a way). If you are anywhere close to power in Berlin - share this with the ones that are going to take decisions in the next weeks. We need to upgrade our rail infrastructure for so many reasons!

Eine Europa-Flagge die in einem Fenster hängt.

For the first time in my life I bought a flag. I felt the urge to show Trump, Musk and Putin that we European citizens love our united, free and peaceful continent, and that we are ready to make sacrifices for it.