John Hemmings
@JohnHemmings2
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Deputy Director at @ConGeostrategy and Senior Advisor at @PacificForum. Euro-Atlantic, Indo-Pacific security and defence in an age of geopolitics.
London, England
Joined March 2013
Delighted to have taken part on a panel for @CER_IanBond's excellent new report on UK-EU Cooperation on China at this @KAS_UKIRL / @CER_EU event
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Lot of PRC bots in the replies. Here’s the reality: - No US export control action threatened China’s entire economy. - China’s export control action threatens the entire US manufacturing ecosystem. There is no equivalence. I’m not making a moral point but an empirical one.
Grateful to offer @lilkuo a few thoughts for her terrific @nytimes story on China's rare earth export controls. This is a loaded gun pointed at US manufacturing. It's quite unlike anything the U.S. has levied against China - with significant implications for future coercion.
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Why are so many Chinese bosses disappearing? | The Intelligence podcast https://t.co/abVwH3TOP5 via @YouTube
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Visa Power: How China is Buying its Way into America’s Heart - Newsweek
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Newsweek reveals how Chinese citizens are buying their way into U.S. citizenship and taking a hold in strategic industries.
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Xi's power in one stat: Nearly 1/6 of the CCP Central Committee was absent from this week's plenum, many purged. It's the lowest attendance in decades, reflecting a party where the only person who matters is Xi. @ByChunHan
https://t.co/3efP7N3YVM via @WSJ
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Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.
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Nope. We're definitely not in a new 'cold war'.
🇨🇳 and 🇷🇺 operatives — sex warfare Some Silicon Valley professionals have recently been targeted with sophisticated LinkedIn requests by foreign seductresses such as attractive young Chinese women hoping to gain access to US tech secrets. At a business conference on Chinese
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Total factor productivity chart show how various nations have translated labour, capital, innovation and other inputs into economic growth. Source: https://t.co/eKtQk6DCFp
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FBI should watch for CCP United Front electioneering in NYC. "We identified more than 50 organizations with ties to Beijing that have mobilized members to fund-raise or endorse political candidates over the past five years." @FBIDirectorKash
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Our new research suggests TikTok’s algorithm systematically boosts pro-Mamdani and anti-Cuomo content in NYC’s mayoral race. This analysis was done by Spring AI. the company uncovers the hidden mechanics of social media algorithms to defend democracies from weaponized AI. 🧵
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Now, a former Politico reporter is under investigation for allegedly spying for China. Hopefully, the Belgian laws are up to date, and the person is prosecuted under an appropriate law (or that China is characterised as a “threat”) so that the
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As the @nytimes showed in this May article, the current CCP policy has been to disperse the working age Uyghur across China. Tragic.
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China’s persecution of Uyghurs prompted the U.S. to ban Xinjiang imports. China found a way around it — by shipping more Uyghurs across the country.
I've been in Alar, Xinjiang this week, and it's cotton harvesting season. I couldn't help notice all of the slave labour and forced labour, It's absolutely shocking !!
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📍 Japan | First participation of a 🇫🇷 frigate to the 🇯🇵-🇺🇸 #ANNUALEX exercise 🤝 Integration to a multinational naval force 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦🇯🇵 🛡️ Multi-domain exercise (including surface, air, cyber and amphibious warfares) led by the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force and the
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🔬 A report says Chinese engineers tried to reverse engineer an ASML deep ultraviolet lithography tool, damaged it, then asked ASML to fix it. Even if the story is unverified, if accurate, shows how export curbs are pushing risky workarounds and how hard these machines are to
Whats stopping China to create their own photolithography machines to create their own chips? Simply because Its ultra HARD. China has some of the brightest minds in the world working on it, its just really hard. Refer to the quoted thread, claims some Chinese engineers took
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A Huawei TV suddenly dropped its screen. This is a Huawei Smart Screen V65i, model HEGE-560B. Made in China by China's best high-tech company.
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Dominating the sea and sky! 🇺🇸🇯🇵 U.S. Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and U.S. Marine Corps demonstrate unmatched readiness over the Philippine Sea during ANNUALEX 25.
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So "dumping" is an unfriendly act towards other states. 1. It destroys non-Chinese businesses 2. It's anti-competitive 3. It fosters corporate monopolisation 4. It creates dependencies that China can use for leverage on non-trade matters. 5. It reduces choice & innovation
China faces regular accusations of 'flooding' foreign markets with clean energy products, such as solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, and batteries. China indeed dominates the global market for clean energy products: it manufactures about 80% of the world’s solar panels, 60% of
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Reminder: The CCP has been involved in criminality since the very beginning. "The CCP was selling opium from Yan'an to fund itself...They were selling it to Chinese people." cc: @JamestownTweets @YatesComms
The CCP is getting a cut of all the criminal behavior going on in China. They are also gradually running US companies out of business by IP theft.
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As a reminder, the first is after 25 years life under CCP-led Maoist Communism. The second is after 30 years of life under post-Deng CCP-led state Capitalism. It's clear which is better.
The end of extreme poverty means people in Xinjiang are now experiencing a better quality of life than ever before.
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Interference in the domestic affairs of others. If Beijing is this blatant with the US while it’s the most powerful nation in the intl system, imagine what will happen to western democracies if China becomes hegemon. I shudder to think of it.
Our new research suggests TikTok’s algorithm systematically boosts pro-Mamdani and anti-Cuomo content in NYC’s mayoral race. This analysis was done by Spring AI. the company uncovers the hidden mechanics of social media algorithms to defend democracies from weaponized AI. 🧵
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“Plans for a groundbreaking rare earths refinery in East Yorkshire have been scrapped, after the company behind the project decided to seek investment in the US instead.”
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The project would have given the UK a strategic foothold in the rare earths industry.
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This is beyond common sense. As many have already written, the PRC is waging economic warfare on developed states and turning the global south into debt-addled dependent markets.
China has run the same playbook for decades—subsidies, unfair trade practices, and hollow promises. It’s time to revoke their “normal” trade status and impose strong tariffs on critical sectors. Free trade is for free nations, not the CCP.
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Our universities are the sites of some of the most advanced research in the world, yet Chinese nationals are working in our top laboratories threatening our national security. It’s time to crackdown on espionage at our universities.
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