Carl Worker
@carlworker
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Auckland small business owner. Retired NZ diplomat. Former Ambassador to China, CT Amb, Amb to Argentina, C-G in Hong Kong, and Chargé in Washington DC.
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Joined March 2011
Which war of choice is he preparing for? Remember: a single nuke can still ruin your whole day.
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Just landed in La Paz, Bolivia, and am making my way from the airport to town. Of all the foreign trips I’ve undertaken in this job, this one is the most emotional. Our countries have been estranged for 20 years and I’m thrilled, on behalf of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and
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Why is Peter Thiel saying the very obvious out loud a big deal? Sclerotic, failing elites, Student debt, unaffordable housing, shrinking job opportunities, lost in social media— and you get Mamdani. Not that complicated
Peter Thiel today: “Boomers are strangely uncurious about how the world is not really working for their kids. It’s always hard to know how much bad faith there is or how bad the actors are. I think it’s odd that people thought it was odd that I was complaining about student debt
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Vivek Ramaswamy is running for Governor of the Great State of Ohio, a place I love and WON BIG, THREE TIMES, in 2016, 2020, and 2024! I know Vivek well, competed against him, and he is something SPECIAL. He is Young, Strong, and Smart! Vivek is also a very good person, who truly
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El Presidente Javier Milei junto al Presidente de Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz Pereira.
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🚨 India to start making fighter jet engines domestically next year: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
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Very interesting @mounir_rabih piece for @LOrientLeJour (not sure where this appeared in Arabic, as it’s not at @almodononline), saying that MBS is preparing a regional initiative for his upcoming trip to Washington. It includes facilitating U.S.-Iranian negotiations, intervening
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L’Arabie saoudite reprend en main la clé de la stabilité dans la région. Tous les dossiers - y compris le Liban - seront au centre des discussions prévues entre le président américain Donald Trump...
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Update on Nexperia crisis "MOFCOM will grant exemptions from licensing requirements to any exporter, provided that it is declared that the goods are intended for civilian use. This measure takes effect immediately"
Encouraging progress regarding Nexperia chips to the EU. My full statement👇
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Chicken's Neck concerns. "India has fortified its eastern border by establishing three new military garrisons along the Indo-Bangladesh frontier to secure the strategic Siliguri Corridor amid shifting regional alliances. This move aims to enhance surveillance and rapid response
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Money, money, money.
Palantir CTO upbeat about Hegseth speech on acquisition reform.
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Reality check. Who’s competing with whom?
“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.” Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics https://t.co/VtBc2owvV0
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An example of how the US has ceded the future of transport to China. These widely deployed robocars first-mover advantage will be very hard to catch up to a glimpse of a technology that could soon spread around the world: Chinese-made robotaxis https://t.co/wbokkRo4FP via @WSJ
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While U.S. companies dominate their home market, other countries are looking to China for driverless technology.
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Dumbo owns up.
The Free World must work together to address the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party. That’s why I’m delighted to co-host & open this year’s #IPACSummit in @Europarl_EN this year, bringing together over 60 legislators from 29 countries #StrongerTogether
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All a bit overblown, really, although also pretty dumb on the part of those responsible for EU Parliament facility management.
Vice President Bi-khim Hsiao became the first Taiwanese official to speak in the European Parliament building, as part of the IPAC Summit in Brussels.
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China's radical economic transformation since the end of the 1970s wasn't just a matter of the Communist Party abruptly removing its hands from the levers of control to allow the masses enrich free from intervention by the state. It entailed extremely challenging and difficult
‘China lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.’ Wrong. China abandoned socialist economy. And the Chinese people lifted ourselves out of poverty. What did the state do? They kept people in poverty for decades through their fanatical socialist experiments, which
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Regime change has worked so well... Another US-created mess & disaster looming? ‘Last time Donald Trump tried to topple Maduro on the cheap, a quarter of us had to leave,’ writes Quico Toro. ‘What fresh hell awaits us on this second try?’ https://t.co/gaRYTKAgSi via @WSJ
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Trump tried once before to bring down the Venezuelan dictator, prompting millions of Venezuelans to flee. Is a repeat on the horizon?
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i don’t trust mamdani on policing. i suspect his economic policies will prove unworkable. but all the racism i see here makes me much more sympathetic towards him.
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US to boycott G20 in South Africa, Trump says
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Trump says no US official will be sent to the summit over discredited claims that Afrikaners are being persecuted.
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Their Majesties the King and Queen will pay a State Visit to China on 13–17 Nov 2025 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. Marking 50 years of Thai-Chinese diplomatic ties, the historic visit will deepen friendship and cooperation across culture, technology, and education.
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Hopefully she will at last get the (delayed) justice she deserves.
New trial against CFK begins in Buenos Aires
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