ADAM TOOZE

American Factory – Chinese culture? Fascinating critique of the acclaimed documentary by @StellaHongZhang denatural… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286098703921684481

China Moves to Unify Fragmented $15.4 Trillion Bond Market: creating a link btw interbank bond market and exchange… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286093670891106305

“For Americans, part of the appeal of allusions to Cold War 2.0 is that they think they know how the first one ende… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286091801133277185

Decoupling Round 2 – Beijing weighs banning Nokia and Ericsson, who are profiting from Huawei’s exclusion, from exp… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286088640947531778

There are no riots in Albuquerque. There's no looting. No large-scale protests. No significant increase in crim… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286043506377728000

“the novel challenge we face is how to disarm economic growth as a planetary threat” https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1285964302441156610

"For Americans, part of the appeal of allusions to Cold War 2.0 is that they think they know how the first one ende… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286065840291549185

"“We wanted to look our customers in the eye and say we don’t do any manufacturing in China,” said an executive at… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286083604293050371

“I think that if even a moderate democrat came through the door wanting to invest, you’d be thinking long and hard… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286078571354578945

Beijing is opening a new center to study the implications of Xi Jinping thought for diplomacy.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286073538101690370

@adam_tooze And yet U.S. banks reviewing their client base to see whether those clients do business with Chinese of… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286059371357667328

Upbeat but interesting historical thread from @ThomasPHI2 on the EU financial deal. https://twitter.com/ThomasPHI2/status/1286022162369912834

Credit Suisse, HSBC, Julius Baer, UBS are examining whether their clients in Hong Kong have ties to the city’s pro-… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286052276159873025

An Austro-Hungarian artillery position on the Korscharte, 19 July 1917. This photo demonstrates the challenges face… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285840883477368832

Stephen Bach – one of the security guards at my work – made this for the Staff Art Show and its the most insanely m…

Israeli Occupation Forces invaded the home of and arrested Rania Elias director of the Yabous Cultural Centre,one o… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285951020766564353

I’d like to think that I’m a reasonably even-keeled guy. As a political scientist I don’t go around yelling “fascis… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285970149896605696

Check out the article. This isn’t just a slip or an exaggerated headline. Its like a demented caricature of an anti… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286045198938779653

ESSENTIAL thread from @ernietedeschi on what is at stake in the debate about next round of stimulus. One for… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286042140108357639

$400 a month or $400 a week? https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1286019352018538500

What does it say that I've read a thousand tweets about the tragedy of some people making a little more on unemploy… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286027022721069057

They're literally calling it a surge. The boomerang announces itself. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1285995599314264069

The COVID crisis in South Africa is no longer notional. 17k excess deaths. https://twitter.com/SABreakingNews/status/1286004718926348288

About 35,000 Lebanese graduate from university each year; the Lebanese economy even before the crisis offered jobs… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286030756385624070

CNBC reports that GOP considering cutting the $600/week benefit to less than $100/week https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/coronavirus-stimulus-republicans-consider-unemployment-insurance-extension.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.PostToTwitter

Egypt is now struggling with covid-19 in part because it lacks enough doctors: more than 10,000 have emigrated sinc… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286025723119931392

In Algeria, income per person has fallen from $5,600 in 2012 to under $4,000 today. Huge public spending cuts ahead… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286020690513027072

Oil revenues in MENA fell from over $1trn in 2012 to $575bn in 2019, says @IMFNews 2020 Arab countries are expecte… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286015656668696576

Amongst petrostates only Qatar can balance its budget at the current oil price of c. $40/barrel. Algeria needs $ 15… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286010623747268608

What is the climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2? Here's the thing: despite writing a giant 166-p… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285949112467312643

Flattened-out fish-hook is a new one on me. Apparently it describes the stagnation of the US airline in July 2020 7… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286000162637320193

This is a very thoughtful essay on the U.S.-China relationship from @adam_tooze https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/adam-tooze/whose-century

Five years ago, I found this one-of-a-kind misprint at @BMVBooksAnnex in Toronto. I kick myself to this day for not… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285979439772434433

Class War – Trade War – Cold War A new piece for the @LRB on escalating Sino-US tension. Follow up to the earlier p… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1285982943786172417