ADAM TOOZE

Big data breaches in US tied to China 2014-18: "a Hoover, sucking up mountains of data beyond anything else in the world” @zachsdorfman on the US intelligence service view of China’s data-gathering through hacks. foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/22/chi… https://t.co/WM1TBlWgjC

Japanese government railway poster 1937. Fascinating essay this on Art Deco in Asia. asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life… https://t.co/awGpN5IQR9

Beijing has repeatedly praised France for upholding EU's strategic autonomy. FM Wang Yi said: “We are pleased to see strategic autonomy in Europe, with a view to providing more stability. China stands together with France, and with Europe.” @stuartklau scmp.com/news/china/dip… https://t.co/LiNbRXLzuT

“How angry would we have been?” This by @zachsdorfman is fascinating on CIA’s massive penetration of China during age of market boom & corruption (1990s/2000s), China's counterintelligence breakthrough 2010-12 & Xi’s anti-corruption drive. @ForeignPolicy foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/chi… https://t.co/1lUtD3KoiL

Kongo Gumi contractors is widely believed to be Japan's oldest ongoing company. Founded in 578 by a group of Korean carpenters hired by Prince Shotoku to build the massive Shitenno-ji temple. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Compa… https://t.co/FDe3ZAuSoQ

You might imagine Swedish telecoms provider Ericsson is profiting from Western campaign v. Huawei? Think again …. Here is Ericsson’s CEO lobbying hard to have Huawei permitted to build 5g in Ericsson’s backyard in Sweden! Why? Doesn’t want to be locked out of China! twitter.com/jojjeols/statu…

@danielyoung1000 @berndulrich Just signing off … A as in Adam

@Paul_Hol1000 @FunkeBooks @Magella74250164 @BachmannRudi @makro_philip @Pedrfwo Wow … if you do that I want to know how long it is!

RT @ThiagoKrause2: Excelente, como tudo do @adam_tooze. @lnrdmrqs, @lisefer e @zeknust, deve interessar a vocês. twitter.com/r_nagamine/sta…

@BachmannRudi @FunkeBooks @makro_philip @Pedrfwo Gerne geschehen. Frohes Neues Jahr @BachmannRudi

@Praeludio @BachmannRudi @makro_philip @Pedrfwo Sintflut nicht ÖdZ

RT @EricArt03124101: @Jukebucks @adam_tooze @BachmannRudi @makro_philip @Pedrfwo “Gerald Feldman, Great Disorder Unsurpassed! Inflation s…

@Magella74250164 @BachmannRudi @makro_philip @Pedrfwo If you are seriously interested in the period it IS worth it. This is a biblical work … its probably 1000 pages long. So per pages the price is not as exorbitant as it seems.

@danielyoung1000 @berndulrich ?

Gerald Feldman, Great Disorder Unuebertroffen! Inflationsgeschichte im epischen Format HOCH empfohlen fuer alle die sich fuer die Epoche interessieren. @BachmannRudi @makro_philip @Pedrfwo https://t.co/yMkp7rU3qB

Frohes Neues Jahr @berndulrich Auf ein Wiedersehen in Berlin 2021 A

@SamRamani2 Fascinating. Thank you. Anything you can recommend to read on this?

@gabewildau @OECDeconomy @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein @Brad_Setser Thank you Gabriel. Happy new year. I was really surprised by the scale of the wedge because of the idea that China has only a very limited welfare state/redistributive capacity.

RT @gabewildau: @adam_tooze @OECDeconomy @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein @Brad_Setser In practice, many employers and employees don't make the l…

Interesting numbers for tax wedges in EM from @OECDeconomy Big surprise for me @michaelxpettis @M_C_Klein @Brad_Setser is 33% for China/Shanghai! Mainly driven by employer SS contributions. ??oecd.org/tax/tax- policy/taxing-wages-selected-partner-economies-biics-2018.pdf https://t.co/IkAOcN6Nq3

Tax wedge across @OECDeconomy varied in 2019 btw 7% in Chile and 52% in Belgium. oecd.org/tax/taxing-wag… https://t.co/jbD9tcyv3X

Stats appear to show Brazil has high share of public sector wages in GDP and big public sector wage premium very big premium for federal government jobs. I have a hunch that Brazilian twitter may have some views about these numbers from @OECDeconomy! read.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd… https://t.co/sjO3MMHZ4u

France has huge gov share of GDP, moderate share of public sector wages in gdp -> negative public sector wage premium. Public sector wages below private sector. read.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd… https://t.co/cRk4Zuuv5O

"An Ignored Canary in an Unknown Coal Mine: The Caribbean’s $9bn Economic Engagement with China The Caribbean provides some of the earliest signs of the problems that would later dog China’s Belt and Road Initiative." @rasheedguo @PerfectServant thediplomat.com/2020/12/an-ign… https://t.co/wS81wuzywb

Turkey’s influence in Libya is flanked by diplomatic forays in Niger -> challenging France in Sahel At same time Turkey strengthens links to Ethiopia v. Egypt The moves in the France-Egypt-UAE v. Turkey-Qatar forcefield are fascinating. @michaeltanchum turkeyanalyst.org/publications/t… https://t.co/sbkwc5oMkt

"emergence of China's public opinion service sector offers a glimpse of what techno-authoritarianism (an oft-cited but under-explained phrase) might actually look like” This by Jessica Batke and @MareikeOhlberg in @ChinaFile is rather interesting. chinafile.com/reporting-opin… https://t.co/t3QWVNXHnf

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will soon complete in Austria the world's largest steel plant capable of attaining net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. For Voestalpine … In Linz … asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Envi… https://t.co/mTuzEhHypj

Though China has so far made the biggest investment in renewables, Japanese research (counterintuitively) appears to lead field in patenting decarbonization technologies! @NikkeiAsia asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Envi… https://t.co/zEz5fCdmRF

"Karikó was first exposed to these ideas as an undergraduate student in 1976, during a lecture at the University of Szeged in her native Hungary. Intrigued, she began a PhD, studying how mRNA might be used to target viruses.” Another legacy of the 1970s! wired.co.uk/article/mrna-c… https://t.co/Wem44v8anN

The “German engine” in Brussels: Germany’s EU Ambassador Michael Clauss — former German ambassador to Beijing Björn Seibert, chef de cabinet of von Der Leyen Sabine Weyand, DG trade, Michael Hager, chef de cabinet EVP Valdis Dombrovskis @vonderburchard politico.eu/article/eu-chi… https://t.co/pWxbFk7omk

The “German engine” in Brussels: Germany’s EU Ambassador Michael Clauss — former German ambassador to Beijing Björn Seibert, chef de cabinet of von Der Leyen Sabine Weyand, DG trade, Michael Hager, chef de cabinet EVP Valdis Dombrovskis @vonderburchard politico.eu/article/eu-chi… twitter.com/noahbarkin/sta…

Leveling UP …. 300 bn pounds of UK GDP are generated by use of satellite. But not all parts of the UK are equally space orientated. Oh and 90% of the satellites the UK relies on are foreign. -> UK needs a bigger space investment. Ingenious! @UKspace ukspace.org/wp-content/upl… https://t.co/xSIGMqbjbB

@Jmhaas Thank you @Jmhaas Happy new year to you!

@ThomasASpencer Thank you! Happy new year.

@EricLevitz Hi Eric happy new year. Let’s hope that thought does not shadow us in the months to come.

RT @Tweetermeyer: Eat more sablefish (black cod) in 2021. Fisheries are healthy and it's delicious and easy to cook. This is the classic mi…