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Thorsten Benner

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Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin www.gppi.net

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 18d

Willkommen in der Welt der Mehrfachausrichtung.

Saudi-Arabien zeigt, dass wir uns nicht auf neuen Kalten Krieg mit fein säuberlich geteilten Lagern zuordnen, in die sich alle einsortieren.

Trump beschleunigt die Hinwendung zu multi-alignment.

Meine neue Handelsblatt-Kolumne.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 4h

…to 2025.

„The following day, three top Nexperia executives with Dutch and German nationalities submitted an emergency request to the Amsterdam court of appeal to intervene at the chipmaker“.

www.ft.com/content/605e...

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 4h

From 2019…

„The change of ownership is another step that confirms we are on the right track and it will open up new opportunities for Nexperia“.

www.nexperia.com/about/news-e...

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 5h

„The problem of the European industrial base is not us, it's China“.

Jacob Helberg is very much right on this. Yes, Trump’s tariffs have made life for a number of European exporters tougher. But the primary threat to Europe‘s industrial base is from China.

www.corriere.it/economia/fin...

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 1d

„MPs, government officials and military figures have all publicly and privately expressed concerns about the security risks of them going ahead“.

Absolutely reckless for Starmer government not to take into account these concerns in decision.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 1d

That Ming Yang blathers „We fully support the government's mission to become a clean energy superpower“ is one thing. Another would be for Ed Miliband to fall for this sweet talk, jeopardize UK security and help destroy the European wind power industry.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 1d

It‘s useful these days to pay attention to where UK China policy goes awfully wrong.

This is a prime example. The plan to rely on Ming Yang for critical energy infrastructure (the UK‘s largest wind farm) is reckless. Especially since there are European alternatives.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chinese firm planning £1.5bn turbine plant in Scotland

Ming Yang says up to 1,500 jobs could be created if plans for the facility at Ardersier go ahead.

www.bbc.com

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 3d

Lobbying group Solar Power Europe reinstates Huawei after corruption scandal and revises policy paper to no longer clearly point to dangers of relying on Huawei inverters.

Beautiful.

www.politico.eu/article/huaw...

How Huawei came in from the cold after being blacklisted by the EU

The powerful Chinese company is back at one of the bloc’s most influential lobbies, raising questions over its impact on watering down policies aimed at limiting Beijing’s ability to hack key infra…

www.politico.eu

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 4d

Dass viele Schlagzeilen vor dem Autogipfel von Verbrenneraus und Flottengrenzwerten handeln, zeigt, dass wir den Kern des Problems nicht annährend richtig beschreiben.
#ChinaSchock

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 4d

„Rearm Europe“ will fail unless EU members come together to work with partners to do whatever it takes to break the dependence on China on critical raw materials.
If anyone had doubts about the urgency, Beijing dispelled those very effectively today.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe Trump has a point or two as far as the supply chain legislation is concerned.

www.ft.com/content/678f...

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

www.ft.com

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Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 6d

You've probably seen a lot of angry posts today about how "Angela Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltics for the Ukraine war" in a recent interview.

They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 6d

The glorification of the slaughtering of civilians.

Brought to Berlin streets two years after 7 October by a supposed „Alliance of Queer-Feminists“.

Disgusting.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 9d

Was für ein absurdes Theater.
Deutschland am Nationalfeiertag.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 9d

„Huawei and ZTE have retained 30 to 35 per cent of the European mobile infrastructure market, down only 5 to 10 percentage points from 2020“.

Don‘t think it‘s blowback but execution of Xi‘s longstanding priorities.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 10d

Blowback to what?

Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 11d

Selbst eine Mehrheit der CDU/CSU-Anhänger ist für eine Anerkennung Palästinas als eigenständiger Staat.

Aktuell könnte Zeitpunkt falscher nicht sein, solange Hamas den von den maßgeblichen arabischen Staaten befürworteten Deal zum Ende der Kampfhandlungen nicht unterstützt.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 11d

Nokia & Ericsson get squeezed out of the few crumbs they still had on Chinese market.

All the while, Huawei & ZTE have retained 30 to 35 per cent of the European mobile infrastructure market. Huawei 50%+ of German 5G access network.

Absolute economic security folly.

www.ft.com/content/7d08...

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 11d

Orbán's way to say thank you to Angela Merkel for first having shielded him from pushback against his illiberal state agenda within EPP & EU allowing him to entrench his rule & then having served as convenient bogeywoman for his cultural wars (& receiver of refugees from HUN).

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 11d

Absurd ir true

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11d

“It’s easier to get a meeting in the White House with a senior official than to get a meeting with a commissioner."

A senior exec from Dutch tech giant ASML slammed the EU for being inaccessible to Europe’s companies during our #POLITICOCompetitiveSummit.

Dutch tech giant ASML: ‘Not always easy’ to meet with EU politicians

‘The political leaders should sit down with the companies that are investing money,’ says ASML executive.

www.politico.eu

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 12d

Mangelnde Resilienz zeigt sich auch darin, aus jeder Silvesterrakete „breaking news“ auf der Titelseite zu machen.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 13d

Unhappy camper.
Smotrich is right to put his remaining hopes in the „obstinacy of the enemy“. Hamas may indeed yet again deliver for Israel‘s far right.

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 17d

www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...

Geiseln im Gazastreifen: Sie fehlen. Seit 720 Tagen.

Sieben Deutsche sind noch als Geiseln im Gazastreifen, in der Gewalt der Hamas. Hier erzählen ihre Familien von den schlimmsten Momenten – und den schönsten.

www.zeit.de

Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 17d