🇹🇼🪖 Taiwan has outlined key legislative proposals on how it will govern during a potential wartime emergency as China steps up its military aggression.
📎 Nikkei Asia
📎 Nikkei Asia
Nikkei Asia
Taiwan to strengthen wartime mobilization amid rising China threat
Opposition criticizes provisions related to media control, student labor
🇨🇳🇹🇼 Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month, his office said on Sunday, the first time a former or current Taiwanese leader has visited since the defeated Republic of China government fled to the island in 1949.
📎 Reuters
📎 Reuters
Reuters
Former Taiwan president Ma to visit China in landmark trip
Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month, his office said on Sunday, the first time a former or current Taiwanese leader has visited since the defeated Republic of China government fled to the island in 1949.
🇨🇳🇺🇸 In 2022, US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies reported $23.8 bn in R&D. With that money, they've been able to replace 13,000+ parts and redesign 4,000 circuit boards with Chinese substitutes to combat sanctions. With sanctions, there's always a workaround.
📎 Reuters
📎 Reuters
Reuters
Huawei has replaced thousands of U.S.-banned parts in its products, founder says
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has replaced more than 13,000 parts in its products that were hit by U.S. trade sanctions, the Chinese tech giant's founder said, according to a speech transcript posted on Friday by a Chinese university.
⛽️📉 Oil prices sink — with West Texas Intermediate plunging below $65 a barrel — as escalating investor concerns about a global banking crisis erode appetite for risk assets including commodities.
📎 Bloomberg
📎 Bloomberg
🇬🇧⛽️ “Tsunami”of UK strikes to bring BP, Shell and Total operations to standstill
The industrial action will involve at least 1,400 staff and hit major oil and gas companies including BP, CNRI, EnQuest, Harbour, Ithaca, Shell and Total, the Unite union said.
“Dozens” of platforms and offshore installations will be brought to a “standstill” due to the specialised roles its members undertake, the union added.
📎 Tradewinds
The industrial action will involve at least 1,400 staff and hit major oil and gas companies including BP, CNRI, EnQuest, Harbour, Ithaca, Shell and Total, the Unite union said.
“Dozens” of platforms and offshore installations will be brought to a “standstill” due to the specialised roles its members undertake, the union added.
📎 Tradewinds
TradeWinds | Latest shipping and maritime news
‘Tsunami’ of UK strikes to bring BP, Shell and Total operations to ‘standstill’
Unite union says workers demanding better pay and conditions as oil majors rake in record profits
🇪🇺☢️ Last Energy, a startup developing advanced, smaller nuclear power plants, completed 4 deals worth $18.9 billion to build 34 reactors in Europe.
📎 Bloomberg
📎 Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Last Energy Signs Deals Worth $19 Billion for Nuclear Plants
Last Energy Inc., a startup developing advanced, smaller nuclear power plants, completed four deals worth $18.9 billion to build 34 reactors in Europe.
🇮🇶⛽️ Iraq plans to announce within a month a supplementary bidding round for the development of a number of Baghdad’s eastern fields, including the Mansuriya natural gas field.
📎 Bloomberg
📎 Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com
Iraq to Announce Supplementary Bidding Round for Mansuriya Field
Iraq plans to announce within a month a supplementary bidding round to the last one signed for the development of a number of Baghdad’s eastern fields, most prominent of which is the Mansuriya natural gas field, Iraq’s Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani told…
🇺🇸🇪🇺 "The U.S. and its NATO allies will face a challenging set of economic trade-offs and political realities in achieving higher defense spending. The challenge will be exacerbated by additional private investment needs in a more dangerous world."
📎 Wall Street Journal
📎 Wall Street Journal
WSJ
Opinion | NATO Needs More Guns and Less Butter
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will require a jolting shift in the West’s spending priorities.
🇪🇺🪖 Explosives shortage threatens EU drive to arm Ukraine
Europe’s push to make arms for Ukraine has been hobbled by a shortage of explosives, which industry insiders fear will delay efforts to boost shell production by as much as three years.
Scarce supplies of gunpowder, plastic explosives and TNT have left industry unable to rapidly meet expected EU orders for Ukraine, regardless of how much money is thrown at the problem, according to officials and producers.
“The fundamental problem is that the European defence industry is not in good shape for large-scale war production,” said one German official.
📎 Financial Times
Europe’s push to make arms for Ukraine has been hobbled by a shortage of explosives, which industry insiders fear will delay efforts to boost shell production by as much as three years.
Scarce supplies of gunpowder, plastic explosives and TNT have left industry unable to rapidly meet expected EU orders for Ukraine, regardless of how much money is thrown at the problem, according to officials and producers.
“The fundamental problem is that the European defence industry is not in good shape for large-scale war production,” said one German official.
📎 Financial Times
🇪🇺🪖 Language for EU ammo target over the next 12 months for Ukraine is now looser. EU will be "aiming at" a million shells over the next year.
🧵 by Laurence Norman
🧵 by Laurence Norman
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@laurnorman: Language for EU ammo target over the next 12 months for Ukraine is now looser. EU will be "aiming at" a million shells over the next year. But there is still a discussion over whether...
🇧🇾🇷🇺🇺🇦 Belarus has helped Russia from the first days of the invasion of Ukraine—but its president has stopped short of sending his own soldiers to fight. Could that change?
📎 The Economist
📎 The Economist
The Economist
How Belarus’s role in the invasion of Ukraine could grow
It can offer ammunition and morgues, but not military might
🇺🇦🇷🇺🪖 “The battle in Bakhmut began more than 6 months ago, but became a focus over the winter as both sides redeployed forces to Bakhmut from Kherson. Bakhmut thereby acquired a degree of political significance on both sides.”
🧵 by RALee85
🧵 by RALee85
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@RALee85: Thread on Bakhmut. Before talking about the tactical situation, it is important to put it in the strategic context. Ukraine conducted successful offensives in Kharkiv and Kherson after heavy Russian militar...…
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Donetsk Regional Adminstration has announced the creation of zones where Media can’t work or can only do in under regulation. Bakhmut is now a “Red Zone”, meaning no access for news media organizations going forward. Chasov Yar, Toretsk, and Niu York are “Yellow Zones”, where work is allowed only with a press officer.
📎 Link, Ukrainian language source
📎 Link, Ukrainian language source
dn.gov.ua
ДО УВАГИ ПРЕДСТАВНИКІВ ЗМІ, ЯКІ ПЛАНУЮТЬ ПРАЦЮВАТИ НА ТЕРИТОРІЇ ДОНЕЧЧИНИ
З метою уточнення алгоритму роботи з акредитованими представниками засобів масової інформації під час дії правового режиму воєнного стану, оперативно-стратегічним угрупуванням військ «Хортиця» визначено наступні зони, де можуть працювати акредитовані представники…
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🇭🇺🇺🇦⚡Hungary will not support any significant movement of Ukraine towards NATO and the EU until the rights of Transcarpathian Hungarians are restored - Hungarian Foreign Ministry
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🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexico's leftist President AMLO held a MASSIVE rally in the heart of Mexico City honoring the 85th anniversary of the state's expropriation of the oil reserves.
Speaking in the center of Mexico City, President AMLO denounced "hypocritical" US politicians, declaring:
"Mexico is independent and free, not a US colony or protectorate!"
📎 Ben Norton
Speaking in the center of Mexico City, President AMLO denounced "hypocritical" US politicians, declaring:
"Mexico is independent and free, not a US colony or protectorate!"
📎 Ben Norton