Noah Barkin
Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 for Rhodium Group & GMF in Berlin. Get the newsletter: gmfus.org/watching-china-europe
- China is more popular than the US across a wide range of countries, including its neighbours Canada and Mexico, and all of western Europe (save Britain). What a damning indictment of Trump's first months in office. www.politico.eu/article/usa-...
- Robert Prevost made these remarks in 2022 not last week as initially reported👇🏼. Still significant
- 🚨 Pope Leo, in an interview, condemns Putin’s war against Ukraine as a "a true invasion, imperialist in nature, where Russia seeks to conquer territory for reasons of power” kyivindependent.com/pope-leo-xiv...
- 🚨 Pope Leo, in an interview, condemns Putin’s war against Ukraine as a "a true invasion, imperialist in nature, where Russia seeks to conquer territory for reasons of power” kyivindependent.com/pope-leo-xiv...
- Damning verdict on the US-UK trade deal: “The pact is closer to a protection payment to a mob boss than a liberalising agreement between sovereign countries” @alanbeattie.bsky.social on.ft.com/4dcgBec
- Xi’s presence in Moscow, alongside Putin, will serve as a stark reminder to Europe of just how close this relationship has become, and the threat that it could one day pose to NATO’s eastern flank. My comments to David Pierson of the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/w...
- We have to hope that Charles Michel does not become a useful idiot for the CCP in his new incarnation. His stances on China during his time as European Council president, notably as one of the last true believers in the CAI, suggest the risks are not small.
- Merz says members of the Trump administration have an “absurd” view of Germany that fails to distinguish between extremist and centrist parties. He promises to set the record straight in a call with Trump on Thursday. Good luck🤞🏼 www.zdf.de/play/intervi...
