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Co-Founder & Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin.

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Die Erpressungsversuche bei kritischen Rohstoffen zeigen: beim Umgang mit China brauchen wir entschlossene Investitionen in die eigene Systemwettbewerbsfähigkeit: weniger Abhängigkeiten, mehr eigene Stärke. Meine neue Handelsblatt-Kolumne zur Chinapolitik.
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NATO secretary-general warns about joined up Beijing-Moscow threat against European security interests. All the while, one of largest members relies on Huawei technology for storing sensitive security documents. We are still profoundly unserious.
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US economic coercion in the service of the far-right international.
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RT @LulaOficial: In light of the public statement made by U.S. President Donald Trump on social media on the afternoon of Wednesday (9), it….
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🇩🇪🇱🇹co-production celebrating 70 years of Germany in NATO. Thanks for the invite @BMVg_Bundeswehr.
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Fanciful party state response.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday that claims by the German side that the Chinese military had laser targeted a German aircraft in the Red Sea does not match the facts that China has gathered. An expert told the Global Times that its one-sided
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This is really funny.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday that claims by the German side that the Chinese military had laser targeted a German aircraft in the Red Sea does not match the facts that China has gathered. An expert told the Global Times that its one-sided
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RT @BMuellerSN: Es ging natürlich nicht um die Fehlleistungen des Wissenschaftsjournalismus in der Pandemie.
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"Kraß" ist an den Merz-Aussagen nun wirklich gar nichts.
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My interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur on Germany summoning Chinese ambassador after Red Sea laser incident.
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SPIEGEL reports that Chinese military had used laser several times against German frigate passing through Taiwan Strait in fall of 2024 but that chancellery at the time decided to not make this public or express displeasure vis-à-vis Beijing.
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🇩🇪 Beechcraft 350 aircraft during routine Aspides Red Sea sortie attacked by laser "by 🇨🇳 warship without any reason and without any prior contact" or warning. "We don't put up with endangering🇩🇪soldiers. Chinese behavior absolutely unacceptable" summoned 🇨🇳ambassador told.
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The Chinese military employed a laser targeting a German aircraft in the EU operation #ASPIDES. Endangering German personnel & disrupting the operation is entirely unacceptable. The Chinese ambassador was summoned to the Federal Foreign Office today.
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RT @GermanyDiplo: The Chinese military employed a laser targeting a German aircraft in the EU operation #ASPIDES. Endangering German person….
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"Humanitarian city". An Orwellian term. The Netanyahu government really seems to do its utmost to prove Masha Gessen had a point with her ghetto analogy.
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Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין
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“(Katz) laid out an operational plan for a crime against humanity. It is nothing less than that It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation outside the strip.” ⁦@sfardm⁩.
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RT @thomaswright08: About six weeks ago I wrote in @TheAtlantic that the gutting of the NSC would mean that .“The Pentagon, Treasury Depart….
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RT @MairavZ: “(Katz) laid out an operational plan for a crime against humanity. It is nothing less than that It is all about population tra….
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RT @JonasJunack: Öffentliche Wohnungen wurden in Massen an private Unternehmen verkauft. Dank Wohn- & Bürgergeld bekommen diese nun für Sch….
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„Es braucht konkrete Investitionen in die Förderung von Rohstoffen, auch in Afrika. Und dazu ist es notwendig, die Aufgabenverteilung zwischen privater und öffentlicher Hand bei diesem kritischen Thema neu zu definieren“.
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