Neil Thompson
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China v. US: The Great Mideast AI Race Heats Up (opens the original)
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London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to Egypt since 2016, amid deepening economic and security ties between Beijing and one of Washington’s major Arab allies. Egypt’s government said the two sides agreed to launch the third phase of a cooperative industrial zone in the Suez Canal, as Cario seeks to diversify its major foreign policy relations beyond just the US. The latter still supplies Egypt with $1.3 billion in mili
Europeans flock to Chinese EVs amid Heat Waves, Iran Crisis (opens the original)
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London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) have continued to make inroads into Western European markets in the first five months of this year according to data from Schmidt Automotive Research. It found that sales of EV rose 14.2% year-on-year, reaching 171,800 EVs sold to European consumers, with Italy and the UK (which is outside the continent’s dominant EU trading bloc) among the leading purchasers of Chinese EV exports. At the same time, the continent has
For Whom the Strait Tolls (opens the original)
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London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – US President Donald Trump startled shipping companies and foreign governments earlier this week by announcing that the US would be charging a 20% toll for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump publicly embraced the idea of a tolled future for the Strait, a proposal he had sought China’s help in preventing during at a bilateral summit in Beijing just two months earlier, when it was Iran pushing it. However, the president ultimately withdrew th
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