China stelde (inmiddels verzachte) exportbeperkingen in op de chips uit de Chinese Nexperia fabriek. De Staat stelt dat dit gebeurde op aandringen van Wing en Wingtech zelf

Nexperia heeft een productieplek in China. Die heeft zich feitelijk nu afgesplitst.

Wing's handelen moet in het licht van die sanctiedreiging gezien worden. (In NL als vlucht, door Wing zelf als veerkracht mbt evt sancties)

NL MinEZ stelde voor rugdekking eisen aan de Chinese invloed en mate waarin die via de org structuur beperkt kon worden.

De Chinese banden dreigen te vallen onder Amerikaanse sancties mbt halfgeleiders.

Het verwijt is dat Nexperia's kapitaal werd gebruikt om middels bovenmatige bestellingen de zwakke positie van de Chinese WingSkySemi op te krikken. Dat dient het belang van de CEO als persoon maar niet noodzakelijkerwijs Nexperia zelf

Wing zou Nexperia afh willen maken van WingSkySemi dat net als Nexperia wafers maakt.

Waar Wing is , is niet bekend.

Waar Wing is , is niet bekend.

Zhang Xuezheng (Wing) is eigenaar van Wingtech, dat eigenaar is van Nexperia. Hij is ook de CEO van Nexperia.

Nexperia medebestuurders stelden dat Wing het werk v Nexperia naar China aan het overhevelen was. Na kritiek werden ze ontslagen. Zij spanden een zaak bij de Ondernemingskamer aan.

De ondernemingskamer schorste Wing als CEO, en plaatste de aandelen onder curatele.

ook de minister greep in, door Wing zijn bevoegdheden te beperken. Dit is het conflict met Chinese overheid

De ondernemingskamer schorste Wing als CEO, en plaatste de aandelen onder curatele.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260115093750/https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/nexperia-beschuldigt-zijn-chinese-eigenaar-in-de-rechtszaal-van-tactiek-van-de-verschroeide-aarde~b28fa292/

Nexperia's issues with their Chinese owner (WingTech) explained in more detail. - [ ] return

Warning of Chinese intrusion but not seeing the US one etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap

strategic autonomy is eroded across the stack, and across several sectors. See EU efforts wrt rare earth, the prev race on African continent etc.

when we perceive a wave, it has deep roots, true for all tech. It emerges from an ecosystem (something the US billionaires don't accept as true about themselves). n:: vgl alle tech heeft diepe wortels

bit forced analogy, without the point is clearer.

Assessment of the fundamental strength of China. Makes me think of Malaysia that focused on food and edu, then manufacturing, then services and IT to go within a generation from poor to upper middle income country.

Chinese market is big enough itself to iterate quickly. EV cars tip of spear for global success author says. Their lead times are typically much shorter.

I see this too. But it's a weird paragraph. Yes the automotive industry is behaving like dinosaurs in Germany, but the two examples (Mittelstand is not the automotive industry, and a medical device maker) don't connect to the rest.

China's industrial and tech power is now almost by default ahead of US (and EU), except semiconductors (ASML, NXP) and aviation (Airbus, Boeing).

SV techies plan monthly trips to China, as indicator for how China is doing and how US tech sees it

a diff approach to ai-all-the-things in china compared to sv

in contrast to SV. Note that the EU is also talking (not doing yet I think) whole of society efforts.

China is increasing power generation (renewables and nuclear) to a volume that supports compute and data centers. The US in comparison is not growing in generation. Interesting stats on generation here

global talent wrt AI is largely Chinese, even if many of them currently reside in the USA

compares AI dev and attempts to keep it for oneself to the dev of atomic bombs and containment

China's efforts are close to the US results, and bc of open source and/or open weight models, finding a diff path to customers.

author thinks there's no US decisive strategic advantage really vis-a-vis China.

Comparing Bejing and SF, as people risk happy. Beijing only open to young, smart and esp Han, while SF more generally open to new people. But Beijing people must think about rest of China and the world, whereas SF stop thinking about the outside world. See earlier point of externalising costs.

this rings true.

bigtech and autocracy as similar forces eroding agency

Dan Wang's 2025 letter (via [[Matt Mullenweg p]]) His 7 2024 letters are the book [[Breakneck by Dan Wang]] I came across earlier.

16:20 "we have traded resiliency for comfort, as a nation over the last hundred years. So when it kicks off, the assessment is, we're not the ones starting the war, because all the supercomputers, when they crunch the data about what happens if the United States fights China, we lose. America loses. That's a problem. So much so that they've stopped crunching the data. So much so, that, and this is something that very, very few people, I'm aware of no one else talking about this publicly... capitulation. What does that mean? It means that currently there is a 50% chance, coin toss, coin toss chance, heads or tails buddy, that American "leadership" folds, and we don't fight a war at all. We just let the bad guys in."

plausible. this resonates with Michael Yon.

many chinese have already entered the US via the darien gap in panama. these chinese are sleeper agents/soldiers waiting for the signal to attack.

19:44 "There's a 50% likelihood of capitulation, right now, that the leadership that's already bought and paid for by China, and APAC, and others... They're already doing it."

exit scam on a national level.

Qwen image generation could run locally.

perhaps bc they feed on existing efforts, and perhaps bc like the US models it is based on lots of copyright breaches.

list of Chinese open sources / open weight models. Explore.

yup. key phrase, much of the AI bubble is the presumption of US monopoly. Watching other, sometimes less visible efforts is important wrt autonomy, sovereignty

Chinese models became very visible in 2025. - [ ] find ranking and description of Chinese llms

China is setting efficiency demands per 2026 for electric vehicles. Vlg how the EU just postponed the date for fossil fuel cars to end

https://web.archive.org/web/20251223143524/https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3337315/china-bans-e-commerce-platforms-forcing-lowest-prices-or-abusing-algorithms?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection

Chinese reg against pricing algo's.

for - quote - Multilateralism - China - James Hansen - If we treat China like an enemy, then they become an enemy

for - comparison - energy - China will become the world's first electrostate - The US is doubling down as a leading petrostate

for - stats - China electrostate - ecocivilization renewable energy manufacturing - 80% of all solar panels - 75% of all EV batteries - 60% of all wind turbines

DeepSeek, Chinese model. Listed in ollama

GLM is a Chinese model. I don't see it listed in Ollama though.

for - climate scientists & activism - In China - climate scientists encouraged to speak out by state - due to Ecological civilization government strategy

for - example - collaboration - AI - china proposed

for - youtube - China - desert seafood

pursued closer relations with both in order to de-escalate tensions and strengthen the United States’ position relative to each

The counterpoint to companies investing for profit only. China SOEs are not relying on fat profits and it’s the fastest deploying country because of this

George Gilder indeed calls for wafer scale compute. Article mentions the issues of one flaw meaning having to toss the wafer (as opposed to 1 chip cut from the wafer). Also says that bc of that wafer solutions are for highly specialised set-ups only (bc it's costly to end up with one flawless wafer).

strategic issues wrt China. Nexperia is mentioned but not explained (e.g. as to why Dutch gov stepped in), something I find lacking overall. Search for comms by Dutch gov on this?

Interesting - I hadn't realised Saudi Arabia was making deeper ties with China too, as on the face of it they look like such different economies

China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future by [[David Gelles]], [[Somini Sengupta]], [[Keith Bradsher]], [[Brad Plumer]], [[Harry Stevens]]

His predecessors didn't have the same geo-political benefits in play that he did, specifically the Israel situation mentioned earlier in the article:

After Israel’s fierce retaliation for the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks that killed over a thousand Israeli civilians, Iran is suddenly bereft of its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah. Its closest ally, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, had to flee the country. And Russia and China, which formed a partnership of convenience with Iran, were nowhere to be seen after Israel attacked the country.

https://taz.de/Mehr-russisches-Erdgas-fuer-China/!6021655/

Die Methanemissionen durch die Produktion fossiler Energien haben 2019, haben 2024 beinahe wieder den Record mit von 2019 erreicht. Ein großer Teil dieser Missionen könnte relativ leicht vermieden werden. Insgesamt wurden bei der Förderung von Kohle, Püle und Gas 580 Millionen Tonnen Metan ausgestossen.

https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org/afp/les-emissions-de-methane-liees-lenergie-encore-proches-de-leur-niveau-record-en-2024-250507?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=fil-info-energies&utm_campaign=/newsletter/cde-aujourdhui-7-mai-2025&sstc=u36579nl166571

Im ersten Quartal 2025 übertraf die installierte Kapazität von Wind- und Solarenergie in China erstmals die von Kohlekraftwerken, mit 1,482 Milliarden Kilowatt gegenüber 1,451 Milliarden Kilowatt. China hat 2024 weltweit 357 Gigawatt neue erneuerbare Energien installiert, zehnmal mehr als die USA. Bis 2030 plant China, 1.200 Gigawatt erneuerbare Energien zu installieren, um bis 2060 klimaneutral zu werden.

[Zusammenfassung mit Mistral generiert]

https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2025/04/25/news/cina_rinnovabili_trump_carbone_energia_terre_rare-424148525/

Die Tat interview die Politologin Sonja Tiges zur Antikrimapolitik der Trampadministration in ihren ersten 100 Tagen. Tielges betont unter anderem, dass die Trumpregierung eine Energiedominanz anstrebt und andere Länder dazu drängt, das fossile Modell beizubehalten. Möglicherweise strebe China eine Gegenposition an, unter anderem verändere sich die Bereitschaft klimafinanzend zur Verfügung zu stellen in China.

https://taz.de/Wissenschaftlerin-zur-US-Klimapolitik/!6081981/

Bei einem virtuellen Gipfel der Vereinten Nationen zur Klimakrise haben sich Hina, D.E.U., D.A. sehr anstatten die afrikanische Union Brasilien und die Koalition der kleinen Inselstaden zur Energiewände und einer Internationalen Klamot-Gavernans bekannt. Der chinesische Staatschef Schie, der was selten ist, an dem Treffen teilnahmen, verwies darauf, dass China die inzwischen größte Infrastruktur für erneuerbare Energie entwickelt hat, einschließlich der dazu gehörrenden Liefer. Einst du sie sich dazu gehörenden Lieferketten. Die Teilnehmer starten werden ihre nationalen Reduktionsstrategien rechtzeitig vor der Kopf 30 erstellen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/un-chief-no-group-or-government-can-stop-clean-energy-future

for - report - America's Superintelligence Project - definition - ASI - Artificial Super Intelligence

summary - What is the cost of mistrust between nation states? - The mistrust between the US and China is reaching an all-tie high and it has disastrous consequences for an AI arms race - It is driving each country to move fast and break things, which will become an existential threat to all humanity - Deep Humanity, with an important dimension of progress traps can help us navigate ASI

Autor, David H., David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson. “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States.” American Economic Review 103, no. 6 (October 2013): 2121–68. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.6.2121.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-china-is-managing-the-rising-energy-demand-from-data-centres/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-04-16&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+16+04+2025

for - adjacency - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs - youtube - Bloomberg - Trump presses China to Make Tariff Offer to Calm Trade War

adjacency between - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs

Summary - Professor Edward Fishman gives a very good explanation about the relationship between the US national debt, treasury bonds, US reserve currency and the Trump tariffs. - Watching youtubes on these topics recently has been quite enlightening and primed me for this video - I really appreciated the interviewer asking the question on behalf of the viewers

for - mayor system - China - responsible for rapid change

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8OsnMuHiD8W6nxxq-1t7lVZ4V2FSXnOT

Suggested by PM at DABC

ᔥ Patrick 9:32 AM This Video Will Change Your View of CHINA! (no more lies)

Zeigt, wie ich finde, sehr gut die Aporien und die Möglichkeiten einer linken Politik angesichts der Klimakrise. Dabei gibt es viele Bezüge zum Buch Klamot Leroyanfern. Wenn Wright sucht eine Position, jenseits einer im weitesten sind kinesianischen Politik und auch einer neoninistischen Politik. Es gibt viele Bezüge zu den Sapatisten und ähnlichen Bewegungen. Argument für eine radikal alternative Praxis ist, dass alle existierenden Politik die Klimakrise nicht aufhalten werden.

https://territories.substack.com/p/hell-is-truth-seen-too-late

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/17/ed-miliband-vows-to-engage-with-china-on-climate-after-tory-negligence

Chinese LLM spooking US based corps it seems. #openvraag why?

4.3 Geopolitics- study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states.<br /> Territoriality - a willingness by a person or group of people to defend space they claim. A people's connection to a particular piece of land.

Neocolonialism- Process which powerful countries attempt to control weaker countries because of economic or cultural pressures. Control was indirectly exerted over developing countries. Ex. Transnational corporations based in European countries continued to control the extractions of natural resources through mining and the export of natural resources

for - colonialism - China faces backlash in Mozambique and DRC as violence erupts against corruption 2025, Jan 1

// - comment Widescale violence breaker out in Mozambique over fraudulent election results - Chinese businesses and infrastructure have been targeted as they are seen as corrupt supporters of the current government. - China's corrupt business practices that have kept ordinary people in poverty while destroying the environment. - Years if such exploitation reached a boiling point when the corrupt government won they election again.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/04/us-climate-crisis-legal-court

Auch in diesem Jahr scheitert das Ausweisen großer Meeresschutzgebiete im antarktischen Ozean am Widerstand Chinas und Russlands. Die Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition informiert in einer neuen Publikation über die Notwendigkeit, das Meer um die Antarktis angesichts der globalen Erhitzung zu schützen. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000240592/umweltschuetzer-fordern-endlich-neue-schutzgebiete-in-der-antarktis

Bericht zum Schutz des antarktischen Ozeans: https://www.asoc.org/ice-archive/protecting-a-changing-southern-ocean/

for - climate crisis - Youtube - climate Doomsday 6 years from now - Jerry Kroth - to - climate clock - adjacency - Tipping Point Festival - Indyweb / SRG complexity mapping tool - Integration of many fragmented bottom-up initiatives - The Great Weaving - Cosmolocal organization - Michel Bauwens - Peer-to-Peer Foundation - A third option - Islands of Coherency - Otto Scharmer Presencing Institute - U-labs - Love-based (sacred-based) mini-assemblies interventions to address growing fascism, populism and polarization - Roger Hallam - Ending the US / China Cold War - Yanis Varoufakis

YouTube details - title: climate Doomsday 6 years from now - author: Jerry Kroth, pyschologist

summary - Psychologist Jerry Kroth makes a claim that the 1.5 Deg C and 2.0 Deg C thresholds will be reached sooner than expected - due to acceleration of climate change impacts. - He backs up his argument with papers and recent talks of climate thought leaders using their youtube presentations. - This presentation succinctly summarized a lot of the climate news I've been following recently. - It reminded me of the urgency of climate change, my work trying to find a way to integrate the work of the Climate Clock project into other projects. - This work was still incomplete but now I have incentive to complete it.

adjacency - between - Tipping Point Festival - Indyweb / SRG complexity mapping tool - Integration of many fragmented bottom-up initiatives - The Great Weaving - Cosmolocal organization - Michel Bauwens - Peer-to-Peer Foundation - Islands of Coherency - Otto Scharmer - Presencing Institute - U-labs - Love-based (sacred-based) mini-assemblies interventions to address growing fascism, populism and polarization - Roger Hallam - Ending the US / China Cold War - Yanis Varoufakis - and many others - adjacency relationship - I have been holding many fragmented projects in my mind and they are all orbiting around the Tipping Point Festival for the past decade. - When Indyweb Alpha is done, - especially with the new Wikinizer update - We can collectively weave all these ideas together into one coherent whole using Stop Reset Go complexity mapping as a plexmarked Mark-In notation - Then apply cascading social tipping point theory to invite each project to a form a global coherent, bottom-up commons-based movement for rapid whole system change - Currently, there are a lot of jigsaw puzzle pieces to put together! - I think this video served as a reminder of the urgency emerged of our situation and it emerged adjacencies and associations between recent ideas I've been annotating, specifically: - Yanis Varoufakis - Need to end the US-led cold war with China due to US felt threat of losing their US dollar reserve currency status - that Trump wants to escalate to the next stage with major tariffs - MIchel Bauwens - Cosmolocal organization as an alternative to current governance systems - Roger Hallam - love-based strategy intervention for mitigating fascism, polarization and the climate crisis - Otto Scharmer - Emerging a third option to democracy - small islands of coherency can unite nonlinearly to have a significant impact - Climate Clock - a visual means to show how much time we have left - It is noteworthy that: - Yanis Varoufakis and Roger Hallam are both articulating a higher Common Human Denominator - creating a drive to come together rather than separate - which requires looking past the differences and into the fundamental similarities that make us human - the Common Human Denominators (CHD) - In both of their respective articles, Yanis Varoufakis and Otto Scharmer both recognize the facade of the two party system - in the backend, it's only ruled by one party - the oligarchs, the party of the elites (see references below) - Once Indyweb is ready, and SRG complexity mapping and sense-making tool applied within Indyweb, we will already be curating all the most current information from all the fragmented projects together in one place regardless of whether any projects wants to use the Indyweb or not - The most current information from each project is already converged, associated and updated here - This makes it a valuable resource for them because it expands the reach of each and every project

to - climate clock - https://hyp.is/R_kJHKGQEe28r-doGn-djg/climateclock.world/ - love-based intervention to address fascism, populism and polarization - Roger Hallam - https://hyp.is/wUDpaKsAEe-DM9fteMUtzw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKWCHAcS7E - ending the US / China cold war - Yanis Varoufakis - https://hyp.is/Yy0juqmrEe-ERhtaafWWHw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BsAa_94dao - Cosmolocal coordination of the commons as an alternative to current governance and a leverage point to unite fragmented communities - Michel Bauwens - https://hyp.is/AvtJYqitEe-f_EtI6TJRVg/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/a-global-history-of-societal-regulation - A third option for democracy - Uniting small islands of coherency in a time of chaos - Otto Scharmer - https://hyp.is/JlLzuKusEe-xkG-YfcRoyg/medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/an-emerging-third-option-reclaiming-democracy-from-dark-money-dark-tech-3886bcd0469b - One party system - oligarchs - Yanis Varoufakis - https://hyp.is/CVXzAKnWEe-PBBcP5GE8TA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BsAa_94dao - What's missing is a third option (in the two party system) - Otto Scharmer - https://hyp.is/M3S6VKuxEe-pG-Myu6VW1A/medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/an-emerging-third-option-reclaiming-democracy-from-dark-money-dark-tech-3886bcd0469b

for - First suggestion - for China - decrease dependency on American deficit - by increasing domestic demand for your own manufactured products - using your own digital super highway - and increasing wages - Yanis Varoufakis

for - key insight - US hegemonic foreign policy - for cold war with China - in order to protect the US global reserve currency - Yanis Varoufakis - Yanis Varoufakis provides a key insight here about the reason for the US cold war with China - Yanis validates his one party claim by saying that the clashing economic fiefdoms of - big tech (Silicon Valley) and - Wall street - are both antagonistic towards China - Biden's Chips Act and - Trump's huge Tariffs - are both continuations of the cold war towards China

for - difference - China - US - tech and finance sector clash - silicon valley profits pay large rent to Wall street - In China, they harmonize - Yanis Varoufakis

for - difference - China - US - people's bank controls bankers in China - Bankers control the central Bank in the US - Yanis Varoufakis

for - key insight - key question - why did US foreign policy against China switch only in 2014? - Yanis Varoufakis

for - further research - UD foreign policy - Ukraine - Israel - China - Russia - Nixon - Yanis Varoufakis

for - Yanis Varoufakis - talk - in China - Geopolitics and the US dollar - adjacency - geopolitics - China and US - why did the US start a Cold War with China around 2014? - US switched from surplus to deficit country - Henry Kissinger's role - US needs to be hegemonic - to manage the deficit - and keep everyone exporting goods to the US

Summary - (see below)

adjacency - between - Yanis Varoufakis - China US cold war - the importance of the years 2014 - 2015 - Henry Kissinger - surplus economy to deficit economy - techno feudalism - cloud capital - cloudist - adjacency relationship - Yanis Varoufakis gives an insightful talk to Chinese officials about - the reason behind the US cold war with China, - how it is independent of which political party is in power, - eliminates many other reasons put forth - how's this single reason drives so much of geopolitics and US hegemony - why its continuation will destroy any chance of the global collaboration not required to prevent climate change disaster for our entire civilization - a strategy to change direction towards re-establishing healthy relationships between nation states that includes activating the social democrats within the United States - The key observation that explains the cold war with China, - An observation from a Henry Kissinger colleague replying to a solicitation for answers to a question Kissinger posed for his team - Kissinger realized that during his role in the US government, the US would soon switch from a country with a net surplus to ones with a net deficit, and this had existential consequences - No country has ever have a long term deficit and survived - Kissinger was fishing for solutions from his team - One team member suggested tripling the deficit but becoming the main currency for global trade - This is the plan that was adopted - The US went from a surplus country to a deficit around 2014-2015 - It forced the US to be hegemonic and control the entire global currency for trade - China threatens this with a new digital superhighway

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/21/us-and-india-lead-g20-on-climate-action-report-says

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/19/climate/china-emissions-fossil-fuels-climate.html

more detailed, specific on beliefs

ACTUAL HAN

imperial tribute system motivated travel for other purposes as the infrastructure was there

56:48 The USA borrows money from China IS NOT TRUE. China converts its dollars from selling stuff to the USA to a US treasury bond which earns them interest rtaher than just sitting in a checking account

die international energie elfchen sie stellt in ihrem neuen bericht zu den erneuerbaren fest komma das das globale ziel komme die kapazität an erneuerbaren energien bis zweitausenddreißig zu verdreifachen komma erreicht werden kann punkt voraussetzung sei allerdings bekomme den ärmeren ländern das nötige kapital zur verfügung zu stellen pumpt zwanzig dreißig könnte fast die hälfte des weltweit erzeugten stroms aus erneuerbaren quellen kommen , Wobei sechzig prozent der kapituliert kapazitäten in china installiertpunkthttps://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/energies-renouvelables-le-monde-peut-atteindre-ses-objectifs-a-condition-daider-les-pays-du-sud-20241009_AASGBWH43VBAJDCVSWSFOMCIEM/

for - sustainable building - rammed earth - example - China - low cost - people-built

Die Methan-Emissionen steigen in den USA wie international weiter, im Widerspruch zu den Zusagen des Global Methane Pledge. Eine Hauptursache ist die weiter zunehmende Förderung von Öl und Gas. Neue Auswertungen des Instituts Kayrros ergeben detaillierter als bisher Cass die Emissionen in13 grossen Öl- und Gas-Fördergebieten mit zwei Ausnahmen gewachsen sind. Hintergrundbericht, auch über Maßnahmen der Biden-Administration und EU- zur Reduktion der Emissionen. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/climate/us-methane-greenhouse-gas.html

Kayrros-Artikel: https://www.energyintel.com/00000187-9953-d12b-a7bf-9dfb5fb60000

Der Taifun Yagi, in Asian der bisher stärkste Sturm dieses Jahres, hat in Vietnam mindestens 35 Menschenleben gefordert. Zuvor hatte der Taifun in China und den Philippinen Menschen getötet. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000235705/mindestens-24-tote-und-hunderte-verletzte-durch-taifun-yagi-in-vietnam

in China haben die Folgen von Extremwetterereignissen, vor allem Überflutungen, im Juli.zu Schäden von 10 Milliarden USD geführt. Die durch Ernteschäden gestiegenen Lebensmittelpreise erschweren die Politik der Parteiführung, durch Ankurbeln des Konsums das Wachstum zu beschleunigen. Hintergrundbericht über Folgen der Erhitzung für Lebensmittelversorgung, Wasser-Management und Infrastruktur. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/world/asia/china-rainfall-crops.html

Der Ausgang der amerikanischen Präsidentenwahlen wird auch die chinesische Klimapolitik mitbestimmen. Eine Wahl Trumps würde den Druck zu dekarbonisieren deutlich verringern. Die New York Times hat dazu anläßlich eines China-Besuchs des US-Klimagesandten John Podesta Experten befragt. China hat allein im letzten Jahr mehr Panels für Solarstrom installiert als die USA in ihrer ganzen Geschichte. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/climate/us-election-looms-over-climate-talks-with-china.html

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000232441/china-ist-der-weltgroesste-emittent-nun-aber-sinken-die-co-emissionen-kann-das-von-dauer-sein

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

• Whereas aviators have had a distinguished record as volunteers in emergency and rescue missions;

• Whereas the Flying Tigers originated in the jungles of Burma nearly 50 years ago with the United States volunteer group of General Clair Chennault;

• Whereas the tradition of proud and distinguished service of the Flying Tigers to the United States began under the direction of Robert W. Prescott;

• Whereas this proud and distinguished group of aviators has steadfastly served the specialized air transportation needs of the United States for more than 4 decades;

• Whereas the Flying Tigers has provided assistance with rescue efforts in Korea, Hungary, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, as well as many other humanitarian missions; and

• Whereas the Flying Tigers are representative of countless aviators that deserve recognition for service to the Nation and to thousands of individuals throughout the world:

Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress commends the outstanding efforts of aviators and the Flying Tigers for valued and competent service to the United States.

Bericht zur Geopolitik der Metalle, die für die postfossile Wirtschaft von existenzieller Wichtigkeit sind. Die größten Vorkommen werden bei den wichtigsten Metallen nur von wenigen Ländern kontrolliert. Studien der europäischen Zentralbank und des Welt Währungsfonds beschäftigen sich vor allem damit, dass diese Länder entweder zum Block um die USA oder zu dem um China gehören. https://www.repubblica.it/economia/rubriche/eurobarometro/2024/07/23/news/metalli_rari_transizione_produttori-423409409/

This was compared to may 2023 - so a nearly 80% jump in a single year, for China (!)

for - progress trap - agriculture that could work - historical terraced cultivation in Peru and China

for - progress traps - exceptional civilizations - Egypt and China

progress traps - exceptional civilizations - Egypt and China - While 1,000 years seems to be the norm for the lifetime of an average civilization, China and Egypt have both endured 3 times as long - Egypt had the self-replenishing Nile River with topsoil being washed down from Ethiopia every year to maintain their soil fertility - So they avoided the salinity problem until modern times with the construction of high dams that have had unintended consequences - China also had unusual conditions of exceptionally deep layers of annually replenished topsoil called loess that were formed by being blown in by the wind from surrounding areas

for - types of jobs lost to China - adjacency - job losses of white working class - far-right support for nationalism and protectionism

types of jobs lost to China - mostly white working class - upper management jobs did not suffer much job loss

adjacency - between decimated white working class - far-right - nationalism - protectionism - adjacency relationship - The decimated white working class are strong supporters of far-right politics - Pain and suffering of the white working class is a root cause for voting against perceived neoliberalism, which they blame for their loss of livelihood Protectionism and nationalism is a desire to bring the jobs back home

for - stats - US trade deficit with China

stats US trade deficit with China - Due to the cheaper cost of manufacturing in China, many U.S. companies have outsourced their labor abroad. - This has resulted in - a massive trade deficit between the U.S. and China and - has led to a loss of around 2.4 million jobs since 2013, or - almost two-thirds of all U.S. manufacturing jobs

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/world/asia/china-flooding-landslides-weather.html

This is a surprise. I had assumed China might shoot for gas in as a stop gap too, but it looks like they're skipping it

Wow, China has more than a terawatt of coal generation in 2024

Holy shit.

If EVs are making half the cars sold in China, then are more EVs are being sold in China than cars and trucks in the USA ?

Seit dem Pariser Abkommen finanzierten die 60 größten Banken 425 fossile Großprojekte - sogenannte carbon bombs mit einem zu erwartenden CO2-Ausstoß von jeweils über einer Gigatonne - mit insgesamt 1,8 Billionen Dollar. Der Standard-Artikel geht auf ein Projekt zurück, bei dem Daten des Carbon Bombs-Projekts, des Global Energy Monitor und von Banking on Climate Chaos ausgewertet und visualisiert werden. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000193065/billionenkredite-fuer-fossile-grossprojekte-wie-banken-die-klimakrise-mitfinanzieren

Bericht/Visualisierung: https://www.carbonbombs.org/

In Frankreich beginnt in dieser Woche eine öffentliche Debatte um ein großes lithium-bergbauprojekt im zentralmassiv. Der umfassende Artikel beleuchtet eine Vielzahl von Aspekten des lithium-Abbaus und der zunehmenden Opposition dagegen, die eng mit dem Kampf gegen die individuelle motorisierte Mobilität verbunden ist. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/course-au-lithium-made-in-france-une-opportunite-a-saisir-ou-un-mirage-ecologique-20240310_FQOVXTBNKJC5NJ7EZI2UQKOAIY/in

Die Planungen neuer Kohlekraftwerke und die Nutzung von Kohleenergie haben im vergangenen Jahr neue Höchststände erreicht. Vor allem China plant viele neue Kraftwerke. Der Bericht Boom and Burst Coal des Global Energy Monitor stellt außerdem fest, dass Kohlekraftwerke weltweit viereinhalb Mal schneller abgeschaltet werden müssten, um das Ziel des Verzichts auf Kohleenergie bis 2040 zu erreichen.

2023 Production Gap Report: Die USA, Russland und Saudi-Arabien planen wie die Mehrheit der 20 am meisten fossile Brennstoffe produzierenden Staaten, 2030 mehr Öl zu fördern als je zuvor. Indien will die Kohleproduktion bis 2030 verdoppeln, Kanada die Öl- und Gasförderung in 25 Jahren um 25% steigern. Brasilien will in 10 Jahren die Ölproduktion um 2/3, die Gasproduktion um 100% steigern. China, Deutschland, Großbritannien und Norwegen wollen die Produktion reduzieren. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/climate/coming-soon-more-oil-gas-and-coal.html

Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die COP28 mit dem Emissions Peak für Treibhausgase zusammenfallen könnte. Um das 1,5°-Ziel zu erreichen, müssten allerdings die Emissionen bis 2030 um die Hälfte sinken. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/nov/29/cop28-what-could-climate-conference-achieve

Die Pläne der Kohle-, Öl- und gasproduzierenden Staaten zur Ausweitung der Förderung würden 2030 zu 460% mehr Kohle, 83% mehr Gas und 29% mehr Ölproduktion führen, als mit dem Pariser Abkommen vereinbar ist. Der aktuelle Production Gap Report der Vereinten Nationen konzentriert sich auf die 20 stärksten Verschmutzer-Staaten, deren Pläne fast durchgängig in radikalem Widerspruch zum Pariser Abkommen stehen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report

Report: https://productiongap.org/

20 reiche Länder planen bis 2050 neue Öl- und Gas-Projekte, die zusammen weitere 173 Gigatonnen CO₂-Emissionen verursachen werden, wenn es nicht gelingt sie zu stoppen. Oil Change International hat einen Bericht über den Anteil der verschiedenen Staaten an den Expansionsplänen veröffentlicht. Mit einem Drittel entfällt der Hauptanteil auf die USA.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/12/us-behind-more-than-a-third-of-global-oil-and-gas-expansion-plans-report-finds

Mehr zur fossilen Expansion: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22process%3A%20fossil%20development%22

Neue Daten der "Global Oil and Gas Exit List" zeigen, dass die Adnoc, die Öl- und Gasgesellschaft der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, die weitreichendsten Expansionspläne aller Ölfirmen hat. Die rolle des Adnoc-Chefs Sultan Al Jaber als Präsident der #COP28 sei "lächerlich". Seit 2021 sind weltweit 140 Milliarden Dollar in die Exploration neuer Öl- und Gasfelder geflossen. 96% der 700 im Explorationsgeschäft tätigen Firmen explorieren weiter, 1000 Firmen arbeiten an neuen Pipelines, LNG Terminals und anderer Infrastruktur zur Distribution von Öl und Gas. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/15/cop28-host-uae-oil-plans-data

Das Highjacking des UN-Klimaprozesses durch die Fossilindustrien betreiben die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate in sehr konkreter Weise. Kurz vor der COP28 wurden Notizen zur Vorbereitung von Gesprächen der Emirate mit 27 Staaten bekannt: Bei Klimatreffen sollten gemeinsame Projekte mit der Adnoc zur Öl- und Gasförderung und mit Masdar im Bereich der Erneuerbaren angesprochen werden sollten. Adnoc und Masdar werden von Sultan Al Jaber geleitet, dem Präsidenten der COP28 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/cop28-host-uae-planned-promote-oil-deals-climate-talks