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@andrewbatson @MacaesBruno @FT Great points. But if one generalizes from BU data, which may not be fair to BU, we would be looking at a sudden stop that happened 2017->18. That struck me as pretty remarkable and still does. Amongst the ironies would be that Western debate heated up just as BRI was stopping.

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RT @KevinPGallagher: @adam_tooze @FT Thanks Adam. Will will post a quick blog post and tweet it in order to clear up the confusion and mis…

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RT @JonnyGeller: With much sadness, I must announce the passing of one the world’s great writers – John le Carré. curtisbrown.co.uk/news/a-stateme……

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RT @ColinJMcAuliffe: @ShazCoder @BuddyYakov Hilferding's response to a public works proposal in the 20s was basically laissez faire but for…

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@KevinPGallagher This didnt seem like a tweet, so much as quite a serious set of worries. Non? With the key issue being, what is it sensible to infer from your compilation for these two banks? thediplomat.com/2020/12/chinas…

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@KevinPGallagher Ok. Will take down. Sorry. Need to work this through more.

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@KevinPGallagher Hi Kevin so the crucial issue here is whether the lending of those two banks is a good “indicator of overall Chinese foreign lending” as the @FT piece did? ft.com/content/d9bd80… But Ill take those tweets down for now. A

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18.7% v. 10 % Those are fiscal deficits that IMF expect in US and EU for 2020. The gap for fiscal impulse (i.e. change in deficit 2020 v. 2019) is smaller but still significant: 12.4% US v. 9.5% Euro area. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/QUDGWVsLqL

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@Eaterofsun @Jonthn_Wheatley @JKynge @jamescrabtree @Lingling_Wei @michaelxpettis @TheEconomist @DSORennie @domziegler @jarmiles @s1moncox @S_Rabinovitch @studersc @TedPlafker @donweinland Ive updated the post! MANY thanks. I was hoping someone would put me right 🙂

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New Chartbook Newsletter #9 contrasting the takes on Chinese State Capitalism by @WSJ and @TheEconomist is, I discover thanks to @Eaterofsun a homage to the brilliant work of @S_Rabinovitch To read more checkout the newsletter here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/tJEyjGo3kl

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@Eaterofsun @Jonthn_Wheatley @JKynge @jamescrabtree @Lingling_Wei @michaelxpettis @TheEconomist @DSORennie @domziegler @jarmiles @s1moncox @S_Rabinovitch @studersc @TedPlafker @donweinland Thank you. I worked off the folks who did the china sections in the World in 2021 because they are named there. Kudos to @S_Rabinovitch It is brilliant stuff.

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RT @Eaterofsun: @adam_tooze @Jonthn_Wheatley @JKynge @jamescrabtree @Lingling_Wei @michaelxpettis @TheEconomist @DSORennie @domziegler @jar…

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RT @ziadramley: Why did nobody tell me @adam_tooze’s newsletter is so good? adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne…

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RT @MichaelSpi2: Deng transformed China by moving it to a market economy. Free markets were associated w liberalism/democracy. Evidently no…

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More on why we should not be using the @GDPC_BU database on China policy bank lending as an indicator of overall Chinese foreign lending. twitter.com/lajohnstondr/s…

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RT @DaveKeating: There is growing outrage in the EU Parliament, and in EU capitals, that both may be asked in the coming 2 weeks to rapidly…

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RT @DaveKeating: EP source to me just now: "The UK Parliament may be OK with just rubber-stamping trade deals but that's not how we work he…

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RT @cullenroche: When the economy crashes, but you save the stock market. https://t.co/kWwJn2FE9r

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RT @MacaesBruno: @adam_tooze @FT I think there are cascading problems here. State owned commercial banks more important than policy banks f…

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There may be something wrong with data on Chinese policy bank lending put out by @GDPC_BU quoted by @Jonthn_Wheatley @JKynge As I suggested in adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… they are puzzling. @MacaesBruno agrees. @futurerisks has this critical examination. thediplomat.com/2020/12/chinas… https://t.co/8ziJDpRlAB

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@MacaesBruno @FT Hi @MacaesBruno thank you for this. As I suggested in the newsletter I was left scratching my head as well. But you know this far better.

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What does it mean that the Chinese Communist Party is ever more active in the economy? The beginnings of paralysis? Or a new era of reenergized state capitalism? Chartbook Newsletters #8/#9 are all about China. To get them and sign up go here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/wlQmoHuWOh

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In our household we are living 2020-devastation of global travel industry up close. Talking with friends in Cambodia, I realized they have a big thing going in their favor. Most of their visitors are from places that have controlled the virus! Center of gravity is shifting! https://t.co/CfVRMmXVAp

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RT @RHornik: Well worth reading this comprehensive summary of the current debate over whither/wither China. Seems the key question remains…

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I did a thing for Conley & Silvers the other night about the modern history of Cambodia. PM Hun Sen’s career is truly staggering! How it started: renegade Vietnam-backed ex Khmer Rouge fighter on left. How its going: hanging out with Merkel, Borisov & Sultan of Brunei on right https://t.co/OnzmAhfsd2

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China’s economic growth continues to transform the world economy day by day. Will it conform to familiar patterns of economic development? Or will it explode them? Chartbook Newsletters #8 & #9 are all about China. Get them & sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/CjqFeUGvED

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@Trabaq You are very kind. Thank you.

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Russia is investing in a commercial fleet of 10,000 ton autonomous vessels. offshore-energy.biz/russia-starts-… https://t.co/jNWpQtfrlE

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RT @RajaKorman: @M_C_Klein @adam_tooze Purists may carp but IMO Oz Shiraz—>Arg Malbec makes the most sense on geoculinary basis. (Adding g…

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There isnt any more important question in global political economy than how to read China’s state capitalism. @WSJ and @TheEconomist offer takes that are miles apart. In latest Chartbook Newsletter I map their rival interpretations. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… https://t.co/Irz5A9F7IV

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@M_C_Klein I think its domestic isnt it?

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@Jderbyshire Thank you … gotta figure out the @FT position next 🙂

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RT @Jderbyshire: .⁦@adam_tooze⁩’s latest Chartbook is a superb overview of the evolution of China’s political economy https://t.co/B05adeWl…

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Sometimes the hive mind surfaces a great tweet I had long forgotten about … how 1930s exchange controls benefited wine exports from fascist Italy to Germany. An angle missing from Wages of Destruction! twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…

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RT @x_delcourt: Où va le capitalisme d'État chinois? Chartbook Newsletter #9 by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne…

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