"To name Marxism on scale of "century", 3 conditions: 1. theoretical research object is a typical sample of world, 2. theoretical results have world historical
"If Your Wrists Are Ever Zip-Tied Together, There’s One Simple Way To Escape In Seconds” … just in case this ever comes in handy! 😉
Technosphere and Co-evolution Seminar, Anthropocene Campus 2014, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. @HKW_Berlin mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/proje… https://t.co/gwNTNr4oU9
Total fish stocks in the South China Sea have dropped by 70-95% since the 1950s, according to @CSIS while catch rates have declined by 66-75%
"On 9 July 1926, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was installed as commander of the NRA. Speaking at Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium, he announced the Northern Expedition
"In late 2019, I was asked whether I might contribute a short introduction to Thai translation of Arendt’s essay “Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship” explaining why
RT @Brad_Setser: A useful fact to know, when thinking about the global economy … Asian life insurers have invested more abroad (mostly i…
Alarming report this on the rise of acute food insecurity in 2020. Most serious in DRC, Burkina Faso, The Sudan and N. Nigeria due to
"A portrait of Chiang Kai-shek on being appointed commander of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army”. I must admit, Im taken aback by the charisma of this
"If record heat & wildfires weren’t a clear enough sign that climate is changing, then consider this: Wall Street is about to start trading futures
The DRC is emerging as the country with the world’s largest food crisis: About 21.8 million people in the nation are acutely food insecure new
RT @DanAlexander21: 1/ The Qatar Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund that acts as an arm of the Qatari government, has been renti…
In May 1924, KMT & CCP members gathered at Sun Yat-sen's residence in Shanghai, to commemorate 3rd anniversary of his office as extraordinary president of
300k seafarers are currently trapped at sea. Big part of problem is fragmentation of ownership, control and operation. GREAT graphic from important piece by @oanhha
According to economic historian Jan de Vries, 10 sailors died for every 47 tons of Asian cargo shipped to Europe by the Dutch East India
The Socialist Youth League of China in Paris, 1924. Zhou Enlai (1) and Deng Xiaoping (2). thinkchina.sg/photo-story-di… https://t.co/ueFlpNM86S
Nearly 20% of world’s 1.6 million seafarers are stranded at sea and at the mercy of employers and shifting quarantine requirements to get them home.
EM & frontier economies are recovering at different speeds from corona shock. Scoring 75 economies, Bloomberg finds Asia leads. Latin America is still struggling to
16-year-old Sichuan youth Deng Xiaoping, in Paris to work and study in 1921. He joined CCP in France, where he met Zhou Enlai. After he
The U.S. is emerging as an early favorite in the all-out showdown to rekindle inflation in the world’s major economies -> debt market inflation expectations
On or around this day in September 2020 we topped 30 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide. Deaths heading towards 1 million. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/9NNVGG1Ph9
Liang Jun qualified as China's first recorded female tractor driver in 1948. 21 years later her iconic image graced the 1-yuan note of late Maoist
“His Serene Highness (sic) Prince Michael of Liechtenstein” speaks to @palladiummag about "small states and long-term elites”. Oh come now … dont pretend you aren’t
Indonesia’s central bank initiated bond purchases in April to replace exiting foreign investors and help finance deficit. Now government is proposing a new monetary policy
"His new job: to research and define Xi’s approach to governing the country and put it in a digestible form for 90 million members of
Interesting article by @JLeeEnergy on politics and history of output restriction in OPEC. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/TJbkwGnRwO
Apart from industry/consumption a second major divide in China’s economy right now is btw investment in SOE (growing) and private economy (still contracting). Data from
China’s economy right now is experiencing a divided recovery: A return to 6% yoy industrial growth and retail sales that have just crept back to
Going backwards: Europe’s air traffic control agency is no longer expecting a major recovery in flying in the autumn of 2020. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/SimM8TDx7y
The surge in exchange intervention by the Swiss National Bank in 2020 has been remarkable. Buying mainly euro. Data by @SoberLook https://t.co/b1g614jTcf
Interesting article by @JLeeEnergy on politics and history of output restriction in OPEC. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/seXPDB3UD2
Apart from industry/consumption a second major divide in China’s economy right now is btw investment in SOE (growing) and private economy (still contracting). Data from
China’s economy right now is experiencing a divided recovery: A return to 6% yoy industrial growth and retail sales that have just crept back to
Going backwards: Europe’s air traffic control agency is no longer expecting a major recovery in flying in the autumn of 2020. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/kCzb2FjoB7
The surge in exchange intervention by the Swiss National Bank in 2020 has been remarkable. Buying mainly euro. Data by @SoberLook https://t.co/1ng59EF91W
Latest batch of COVID data from @OurWorldInData is an essential reference. Highlights the significance of the Spanish surge. Relative to population it is currently the
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