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"Global Times editor Hu Xijin asked “Who is more like Nazi Germany?” Responding to U.S. Sec of State Pompeo compari… https://t.co/fzzCDLfrmv

Just when the world REALLY needs a breakthrough on a COVID vaccine, along comes a paper confirming that breakthroug… https://t.co/RCvdornKcj

For sub-Saharan African bond borrowers, COVID-19 was a far more severe shock than any we have seen in decades, incl… https://t.co/9UbejzkPzH

COVID-19 has affected former West Germany far more heavily than it has the East. And it isn’t driven by pattens of… https://t.co/XJ9FvnkzYH

"in the pages of Proust, the old world, like a mangy dog no longer capable of any action whatever, lies basking in… https://t.co/hmlwrAzYvo

Retail sector employs roughly a tenth of America’s labour force. On May 15th the Census Bureau reported that retail… https://t.co/HuKDSrP9Ij

COVID-19 is just the latest catastrophe to have swollen the ranks of 240 m going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa. In s… https://t.co/J5tc6NHtF5

Have Siberian fires been smouldering underground all winter? There are, hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon st… https://t.co/BeoA9udccF

Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Soviet military commander and theoretician on train from Warsaw (which he failed to capture… https://t.co/OP2El7AZEY

Japan’s combination of giant deficits and central bank monetization even @TheEconomist admits is “trailblazing” & “… https://t.co/jF62pdB6eI

Nous avons un vainqueur!! https://t.co/kpSsrnANVI

capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) has the chemical formula C18H27NO3 https://t.co/xhLYik7yg8

Why is it so hard to get hold of a copy of Wicki's film version of Joseph Roth’s Freikorps novel Spinnennetz? Film… https://t.co/ZhDqnaW7Bo

Karl Radek (1919, at which point he would have been organizing either abortive German revolution or anti-Versailles… https://t.co/MnWcrNmnY4

Waiting for Fascism: Joseph Roth and the fictions of Weimar America’s Weimar moment? I really like this essay by… https://t.co/gyUPY4aXB1

Hong Kong is Asian anchor of global $ system: Since 1983 HK$ pegged to USD. Backed by fx reserves of $440bn -> HK$… https://t.co/0ls6HdLxNH

Will China derail decarbonization with a huge surge in coal-fired power generation? OUTSTANDING dissection of compe… https://t.co/nBP6q1Ni6z

Chinese regulators appear to have green lighted a wave of new coal fired power stations. And 14th FYP may be tempte… https://t.co/a1TOHfO1Ry

Btw 1-3 June 2020 America came very close to a true disaster: "In a heated and contentious debate in Oval Office Mo… https://t.co/YLEVOvOvFw

Fantastic book that I’m afraid will get lost in the deluge of news. https://t.co/tdX7jb7cHR

The best image for role Hong Kong plays in global financial system is that it is an electrical transformer that con… https://t.co/mcinIeaIdx

On the heroic stand of Senegalese Capitan Charles N’Tchoréré in the battle for France on 7 June 1940. After refusin… https://t.co/LRTzi9hjhs

IS this for real? 44% of Republicans believe Bill Gates wants to use a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 t… https://t.co/tRIQoO12aA

@toddntucker But Bulgaria!!!

Plandemic: contrary to what you might expect and what their government encourages, Americans are NOT particularly p… https://t.co/gGwR5K4Cgj

On the heroic stand of Senegalese Capitan Charles N’Tchoréré in the battle for France on 7 June 1940. After refusin… https://t.co/LRTzi9hjhs

@tom_nuttall @HistoryNed @dat_tiff In terms of context, there's a genuine shift in German memory culture underway t… https://t.co/zdzXLBfH2V

Even as the lockdown lifts poverty haunts the most precarious households in Italy: those on short-term contracts, 1… https://t.co/uxaqbSFIjl

Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s finance minister, pointed out that rich countries were taking extraordinary measures, while… https://t.co/A2h0clNIlQ