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  1. “The first to arrive is the first to succeed”*…

    Is China “pulling up the ladder”? In his valuable newsletter, Ben Evans puts two recent news items on high-tech manufacturing into context…

    … First, the FT argues that after the ‘China shock’ of cheap low-value manufacturing, there’s now a growing second China shock of high-value, high-tech manufacturing, where the same model of ferocious, Darwinian competition, backed by subsidies and cheap energy, produces a handful of very efficient and capable winners in each space, plus a lot of overcapacity, that then moves to exports. Second, Bloomberg says that Chinese export controls in those high-tech industries are crippling India’s attempt to build its own tech manufacturing base…

    Gift article from the FT: “China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world

    Gift article from Bloomberg: “China’s Control Over Tech Is Threatening India’s Manufacturing Dreams

    * (先到先得) Chinese proverb

    ###

    As we dissect dominance, we might recall that it was on this date in 1981 that the computer mouse became a practical, operating part of the personal computing world, when Xerox released its 1010 (Star) personal computer. The trackball, a related pointing device, had been invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin as part of a post-World War II-era fire-control radar plotting system called the Comprehensive Display System (CDS). Then, in the 1960s, Doug Engelbart and Bill English developed the first mouse prototype. They christened the device the mouse as early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the hand-held unit; the cord looked like a tail and made the device resemble a common mouse.  (According to Roger Bates, a hardware designer under English, another reason for choosing this name was because the cursor on the screen was also referred to as “CAT” at this time.) In 1968, Engelbart premiered the pointer at what has come to be known as “The Mother of All Demos.” There followed, through the 70’s, a pair of personal computers that used a mouse (the Xerox Alto and the Lilith); but while they served as proof-of-concept, they sold only in the hundreds of units over the next several years. It was the Star that effectively brought the mouse to market… soon to be followed by Steve Jobs’ Apple Lisa, which forshadowed the Mac and the user interface that we’ve all come to know.

    Apropos the articles above, computer mice are still a $2 billion business. But while they were invented and originally largely manufactured in the U.S., they are (as of 2025) mostly manufactured in Asia (68%, the lion’s share– 54%– in China); only 8% are made in the U.S.

    source

    #benedictEvans #BillEnglish #China #computerMouse #computing #culture #DougEngelbart #history #India #industrialPolicy #manufacturing #mouse #Technology #XeroxStar
  2. “The first to arrive is the first to succeed”*…

    Is China “pulling up the ladder”? In his valuable newsletter, Ben Evans puts two recent news items on high-tech manufacturing into context…

    … First, the FT argues that after the ‘China shock’ of cheap low-value manufacturing, there’s now a growing second China shock of high-value, high-tech manufacturing, where the same model of ferocious, Darwinian competition, backed by subsidies and cheap energy, produces a handful of very efficient and capable winners in each space, plus a lot of overcapacity, that then moves to exports. Second, Bloomberg says that Chinese export controls in those high-tech industries are crippling India’s attempt to build its own tech manufacturing base…

    Gift article from the FT: “China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world

    Gift article from Bloomberg: “China’s Control Over Tech Is Threatening India’s Manufacturing Dreams

    * (先到先得) Chinese proverb

    ###

    As we dissect the dynamics of dominance, we might recall that it was on this date in 1981 that the computer mouse became a practical, operating part of the personal computing world, when Xerox released its 1010 (Star) personal computer. The trackball, a related pointing device, had been invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin as part of a post-World War II-era fire-control radar plotting system called the Comprehensive Display System (CDS). Then, in the 1960s, Doug Engelbart and Bill English developed the first mouse prototype. They christened the device the mouse as early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the hand-held unit; the cord looked like a tail and made the device resemble a common mouse.  (According to Roger Bates, a hardware designer under English, another reason for choosing this name was because the cursor on the screen was also referred to as “CAT” at this time.) In 1968, Engelbart premiered the pointer at what has come to be known as “The Mother of All Demos.” There followed, through the 70’s, a pair of personal computers that used a mouse (the Xerox Alto and the Lilith); but while they served as proof-of-concept, they sold only in the hundreds of units over the next several years. It was the Star that effectively brought the mouse to market… soon to be followed by Steve Jobs’ Apple Lisa, which forshadowed the Mac and the user interface that we’ve all come to know.

    Apropos the articles above, computer mice are still a $2 billion business. But while they were invented and originally largely manufactured in the U.S., they are (as of 2025) mostly manufactured in Asia (68%, the lion’s share– 54%– in China); only 8% are made in the U.S.

    source

    #benedictEvans #BillEnglish #China #computerMouse #computing #culture #DougEngelbart #history #India #industrialPolicy #manufacturing #mouse #Technology #XeroxStar
  3. “The first to arrive is the first to succeed”*…

    Is China “pulling up the ladder”? In his valuable newsletter, Ben Evans puts two recent news items on high-tech manufacturing into context…

    … First, the FT argues that after the ‘China shock’ of cheap low-value manufacturing, there’s now a growing second China shock of high-value, high-tech manufacturing, where the same model of ferocious, Darwinian competition, backed by subsidies and cheap energy, produces a handful of very efficient and capable winners in each space, plus a lot of overcapacity, that then moves to exports. Second, Bloomberg says that Chinese export controls in those high-tech industries are crippling India’s attempt to build its own tech manufacturing base…

    Gift article from the FT: “China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world

    Gift article from Bloomberg: “China’s Control Over Tech Is Threatening India’s Manufacturing Dreams

    * (先到先得) Chinese proverb

    ###

    As we dissect dominance, we might recall that it was on this date in 1981 that the computer mouse became a practical, operating part of the personal computing world, when Xerox released its 1010 (Star) personal computer. The trackball, a related pointing device, had been invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin as part of a post-World War II-era fire-control radar plotting system called the Comprehensive Display System (CDS). Then, in the 1960s, Doug Engelbart and Bill English developed the first mouse prototype. They christened the device the mouse as early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the hand-held unit; the cord looked like a tail and made the device resemble a common mouse.  (According to Roger Bates, a hardware designer under English, another reason for choosing this name was because the cursor on the screen was also referred to as “CAT” at this time.) In 1968, Engelbart premiered the pointer at what has come to be known as “The Mother of All Demos.” There followed, through the 70’s, a pair of personal computers that used a mouse (the Xerox Alto and the Lilith); but while they served as proof-of-concept, they sold only in the hundreds of units over the next several years. It was the Star that effectively brought the mouse to market… soon to be followed by Steve Jobs’ Apple Lisa, which forshadowed the Mac and the user interface that we’ve all come to know.

    Apropos the articles above, computer mice are still a $2 billion business. But while they were invented and originally largely manufactured in the U.S., they are (as of 2025) mostly manufactured in Asia (68%, the lion’s share– 54%– in China); only 8% are made in the U.S.

    source

    #benedictEvans #BillEnglish #China #computerMouse #computing #culture #DougEngelbart #history #India #industrialPolicy #manufacturing #mouse #Technology #XeroxStar
  4. “The first to arrive is the first to succeed”*…

    Is China “pulling up the ladder”? In his valuable newsletter, Ben Evans puts two recent news items on high-tech manufacturing into context…

    … First, the FT argues that after the ‘China shock’ of cheap low-value manufacturing, there’s now a growing second China shock of high-value, high-tech manufacturing, where the same model of ferocious, Darwinian competition, backed by subsidies and cheap energy, produces a handful of very efficient and capable winners in each space, plus a lot of overcapacity, that then moves to exports. Second, Bloomberg says that Chinese export controls in those high-tech industries are crippling India’s attempt to build its own tech manufacturing base…

    Gift article from the FT: “China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world

    Gift article from Bloomberg: “China’s Control Over Tech Is Threatening India’s Manufacturing Dreams

    * (先到先得) Chinese proverb

    ###

    As we dissect dominance, we might recall that it was on this date in 1981 that the computer mouse became a practical, operating part of the personal computing world, when Xerox released its 1010 (Star) personal computer. The trackball, a related pointing device, had been invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin as part of a post-World War II-era fire-control radar plotting system called the Comprehensive Display System (CDS). Then, in the 1960s, Doug Engelbart and Bill English developed the first mouse prototype. They christened the device the mouse as early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the hand-held unit; the cord looked like a tail and made the device resemble a common mouse.  (According to Roger Bates, a hardware designer under English, another reason for choosing this name was because the cursor on the screen was also referred to as “CAT” at this time.) In 1968, Engelbart premiered the pointer at what has come to be known as “The Mother of All Demos.” There followed, through the 70’s, a pair of personal computers that used a mouse (the Xerox Alto and the Lilith); but while they served as proof-of-concept, they sold only in the hundreds of units over the next several years. It was the Star that effectively brought the mouse to market… soon to be followed by Steve Jobs’ Apple Lisa, which forshadowed the Mac and the user interface that we’ve all come to know.

    Apropos the articles above, computer mice are still a $2 billion business. But while they were invented and originally largely manufactured in the U.S., they are (as of 2025) mostly manufactured in Asia (68%, the lion’s share– 54%– in China); only 8% are made in the U.S.

    source

    #benedictEvans #BillEnglish #China #computerMouse #computing #culture #DougEngelbart #history #India #industrialPolicy #manufacturing #mouse #Technology #XeroxStar
  5. “The first to arrive is the first to succeed”*…

    Is China “pulling up the ladder”? In his valuable newsletter, Ben Evans puts two recent news items on high-tech manufacturing into context…

    … First, the FT argues that after the ‘China shock’ of cheap low-value manufacturing, there’s now a growing second China shock of high-value, high-tech manufacturing, where the same model of ferocious, Darwinian competition, backed by subsidies and cheap energy, produces a handful of very efficient and capable winners in each space, plus a lot of overcapacity, that then moves to exports. Second, Bloomberg says that Chinese export controls in those high-tech industries are crippling India’s attempt to build its own tech manufacturing base…

    Gift article from the FT: “China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world

    Gift article from Bloomberg: “China’s Control Over Tech Is Threatening India’s Manufacturing Dreams

    * (先到先得) Chinese proverb

    ###

    As we dissect the dynamics of dominance, we might recall that it was on this date in 1981 that the computer mouse became a practical, operating part of the personal computing world, when Xerox released its 1010 (Star) personal computer. The trackball, a related pointing device, had been invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin as part of a post-World War II-era fire-control radar plotting system called the Comprehensive Display System (CDS). Then, in the 1960s, Doug Engelbart and Bill English developed the first mouse prototype. They christened the device the mouse as early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the hand-held unit; the cord looked like a tail and made the device resemble a common mouse.  (According to Roger Bates, a hardware designer under English, another reason for choosing this name was because the cursor on the screen was also referred to as “CAT” at this time.) In 1968, Engelbart premiered the pointer at what has come to be known as “The Mother of All Demos.” There followed, through the 70’s, a pair of personal computers that used a mouse (the Xerox Alto and the Lilith); but while they served as proof-of-concept, they sold only in the hundreds of units over the next several years. It was the Star that effectively brought the mouse to market… soon to be followed by Steve Jobs’ Apple Lisa, which forshadowed the Mac and the user interface that we’ve all come to know.

    Apropos the articles above, computer mice are still a $2 billion business. But while they were invented and originally largely manufactured in the U.S., they are (as of 2025) mostly manufactured in Asia (68%, the lion’s share– 54%– in China); only 8% are made in the U.S.

    source

    #benedictEvans #BillEnglish #China #computerMouse #computing #culture #DougEngelbart #history #India #industrialPolicy #manufacturing #mouse #Technology #XeroxStar
  6. Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵 #carbon #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #policySky

  7. Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵

    #assets #assetStranding #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits #carbon

  8. "The cause of climate change is the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels. But instead of focusing on the fundamental root cause, we’ve been focused on the interim product, emissions.
    "But what I show in the book is that managing tons is an extremely narrow and technical understanding of the problem of climate change."

    Jessica Green: yaleclimateconnections.org/202

    #assets #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits

  9. Don’t be fooled by the language claiming to be ”for the worker” in OpenAI’s Industrial Policy document.

    The ”public wealth fund” part is a monopoly attempting to entrench itself as part of the state.

    It’s an insidious scam: When your income and healthcare become tied to the value of ”AI economy”, you’re not going to fight against it.

    Brought to you by the most proficient two-faced liar of the decade, Sam Altman.

    openai.com/en-EN/index/industr

    #openai #industrialpolicy #wealthfund

  10. Publico hoje, no Jornal GGN, um artigo sobre a economia digital brasileira escrito em parceria com minha colega Beatriz Vasconcellos.

    Defendemos que estabelecer este setor no país exige soberania nacional via política industrial, infraestrutura própria e IA nacional.

    Antes de tudo, exige conceituar de que economia digital estamos falando.

    jornalggn.com.br/artigos/o-nov

    #digitaleconomy #industrialpolicy #Brazil #AI #digitalinfrastructure #data

  11. What if the real AI bottleneck isn’t models, but fabs? My latest piece argues vertical integration is becoming strategic necessity: Tesla’s reported Terafab JV could be less about expansion and more about supply-chain sovereignty, capex discipline, and execution risk. post.kapualabs.com/2p9b29e4 $TSLA #Semiconductors #ArtificialIntelligence #IndustrialPolicy

  12. Publico hoje com meu amigo Felipe Machado artigo⁩ sobre a reserva de mercado da informática e suas lições para uma era de Big Techs e Doutrina Monroe.
    Na Carta Capital impressa desta semana e aqui.

    #industrialpolicy #digitalsovereignty #Brazil

  13. Europe is turning climate targets into procurement rules. The proposed Industrial Accelerator Act aims to lift manufacturing from 14.3% of EU GDP (2024) to 20% by 2035 — with “lead markets” for low-carbon steel/cement/aluminium + local-content EV rules.
    climatetech.industryexaminer.c

    #ClimateTech #EU #IndustrialPolicy #SupplyChains #TechNews

  14. 🏛️ “The factory might be unreachable, but not fighting for industrial resilience is a resignation.”

    This is the core message of FabCat Manifest 2.0. Too often, European industrial policy suffers from defeatism. We regulate markets we do not possess. We subsidise competitors because we fear the risk of building our own capacity.

    On 19 Feb, we challenge this doctrine of “managed decline”. #EUChipsAct #StrategicAutonomy #IndustrialPolicy #FabCat

  15. 🛑 Europe is sleepwalking into a sovereignty trap.

    Brussels obsesses over "leading-edge" (<2nm) nodes to compete with Taiwan. Meanwhile, our actual industries—Automotive, IoT, Defence—are starving for mature 22nm chips.

    #EUChipsAct #Semiconductors #IndustrialPolicy #ERSFabs #Resilience

  16. "The measures Trump has enacted will not create the strong, well-resourced public systems required to drive innovation that produces broad prosperity. Industrial policy instruments can be powerful, but only when they are embedded in capable institutions and used to solve problems rather than merely reward those with privileged access.

    If industrial policy is to deliver for the American people, the Trump administration must demand discipline from CHIPS Act recipients. If the president aims to secure a good deal for taxpayers, then the current approach—in which the state is taking passive equity stakes with no voting rights, no conditions, and no reinvestment requirements—will not suffice.

    Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class. Industrial policy can deliver for those voters, but only if contracts require that public investment translates into better wages and more affordable essentials, not just higher stock prices. Placing conditions on government support is not adding bureaucratic red tape. It is the mechanism by which public value is created.

    An effective industrial strategy must create wealth through public investment guided by modern-day moonshots, missions that set clear public goals defined by the problem to be solved and the outcomes to be delivered."

    foreignaffairs.com/united-stat

    #PublicInvestment #IndustrialPolicy #IndustrialStrategy #USA

  17. Morocco emerges as Africa's 1st industrial superpower. Now 2nd largest car producer on continent & a global aerospace hub. Strategy: coastal industrial zones, massive port investment, political stability & control of 70% of world's phosphate reserves. A nearshoring model for Europe.

    #Morocco #AfricaRising #IndustrialPolicy #Nearshoring #Geopolitics #GlobalTrade #Manufacturing

  18. South Korea's Industry Minister Kim Jeong-gwan pledged a robust industrial policy for 2026, emphasizing crisis resilience, export growth, and manufacturing innovation amid global competition and trade challenges.
    #YonhapInfomax #KimJeongGwan #IndustrialPolicy #Exports #Manufacturing #TradeNegotiations #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
    en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

  19. South Korea's Industry Minister Kim Jeong-gwan pledged a robust industrial policy for 2026, emphasizing crisis resilience, export growth, and manufacturing innovation amid global competition and trade challenges.
    #YonhapInfomax #KimJeongGwan #IndustrialPolicy #Exports #Manufacturing #TradeNegotiations #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
    en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

  20. South Korea's Industry Minister Kim Jeong-gwan pledged a robust industrial policy for 2026, emphasizing crisis resilience, export growth, and manufacturing innovation amid global competition and trade challenges.
    #YonhapInfomax #KimJeongGwan #IndustrialPolicy #Exports #Manufacturing #TradeNegotiations #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
    en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

  21. "Thank you for checking out The Front Row Podcast and my interview with Professor Jostein Hauge

    Dr Jostein Hauge is a political economist and an Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, based at the Centre of Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies. He is also the Director of the MPhil in Development Studies and a Fellow of Magdalene College.

    His research lies at the intersection of international political economy and development economics.

    He is the author of ⁠The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization⁠, published by Oxford University Press.

    The book investigates how industrialization pathways are shaped by recent technological developments, new forces of globalization, and the threat of ecological collapse. It also charts new pathways for industrial policy and global governance."

    ykeith.com/jostein/

    #China #Manufacturing #Industrialization #PoliticalEconomy #TradeWar #IndustrialPolicy

  22. "The global economy is undergoing a fundamental shift. After decades of free-market orthodoxy and neoliberal globalization, we’re witnessing the return of industrial policy — but this time with a twist. Major economic powers — especially the United States, China, and the European Union — are now explicitly intertwining their economic strategies with national security concerns. This isn’t just a policy adjustment. It represents a wholesale transformation of how major powers approach economic development and competition.

    These three economic giants are implementing distinct approaches to industrial policy while pursuing similar objectives: technological leadership, supply chain security, and national economic sovereignty. What we’re seeing is the emergence of a new economic nationalism, one that is reshaping the global economic order.
    (...)
    The crucial point is this: neomercantilism — the idea that countries should actively use industrial and trade policies to generate trade surpluses and enhance competitiveness — has always viewed economic power and national security as inseparable. So, what we’re witnessing today isn’t the invention of something entirely new, but rather the resurrection of ideas that were temporarily suppressed during the neoliberal era of the 1980s onwards.

    During that period, international organizations effectively outlawed industrial policy through structural adjustment programmes and free trade agreements. The Washington Consensus reigned supreme. But the 2008 financial crisis, rising inequality, climate change pressures, supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19, and intensifying geopolitical tensions have collectively demolished faith in free-market orthodoxy. Industrial policy is back. And it’s back with a vengeance."

    theglobalcurrents.com/p/indust

    #IndustrialPolicy #EconomicNationalism #Nationalism #Protectionism #PoliticalEconomy

  23. #China floods the world with #gasoline #cars it can't sell at home
    "Fossil-fuel vehicles hv accounted for 76% of PRC auto exports since 2020, & tot annual shipments jumped fr 1 million to likely >6.5 million tis yr.. far-reaching impacts of Chinese #industrialpolicy . to dominate critical sectors nationally & globally.. PRC's industry built capacity for 20 million #EVs & plug-in hybrids annually but remained saddled with enough factories for 30 million gasoline vehicles"🤦‍♂️
    bangkokpost.com/business/motor

  24. "...tariffs only work to reshore production where there is a lot of careful planning, diligent data-collection, and review. Governments have to provide credit to key firms to get them capitalized, provide incentives, and smack nonperformers around. Basically, this is the stuff that Biden did for renewables with the energy sector, and – to a lesser extent – for silicon with the CHIPS Act."

    #CoryDoctorow (@pluralistic), 2025

    pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/str

    #IndustrialPolicy #ImportSubstitution #tariffs

  25. Nvidia’s Arizona chip move isn’t strategy it’s politics. Pressured by Trump’s tariffs and threats, Nvidia shifted production and invested $1B in Nokia to please Washington. The result? Lost China sales, symbolic reshoring, and government contracts to fill the gap.

    #Nvidia #Trump #BlackwallChip #MadeInUSA #TechPolitics #Reshoring #Tariffs #Geopolitics #TechNews #IndustrialPolicy #TECHi

    Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/nvidia-manufacturing

  26. “Whenever a company or public office faces a new challenge, the first question must be: How can #AI help?” @EUCommission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the Italian Tech Week in Turin.

    What a dumb piece of advice.

    #TechnoSolutionism #EU #IndustrialPolicy

  27. In November 2018, GM announced it was closing its Oshawa Assembly after a century in operation as part of a global restructuring plan. At its peak in the 1980s, the Ontario plant employed around 23,000 people. By 2018, that number had dwindled to roughly 4,000.
    #trade #jobs #Canada #policy #industrialpolicy #Cdnecon #Cdnpoli #automotive #collapse
    cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gm-

  28. 'Important Projects of Common European Interest' (IPCEIs) offer collaborative leap into strategic risk, designed to build EU capacity. Although they are cross-border, they hardly feature in debates about territorial cohesion. Read our new blog post steady.page/en/spatialforesigh
    Do IPCEIs have the potential to become instruments of both competitiveness and cohesion? Or will they remain the preserve of Europe’s industrial frontrunners?
    #EUbudget #IPCEI #IndustrialPolicy #TerritorialCohesion #FutureofEurope

  29. 'Important Projects of Common European Interest' (IPCEIs) offer collaborative leap into strategic risk, designed to build EU capacity. Although they are cross-border, they hardly feature in debates about territorial cohesion. Read our new blog post steady.page/en/spatialforesigh
    Do IPCEIs have the potential to become instruments of both competitiveness and cohesion? Or will they remain the preserve of Europe’s industrial frontrunners?
    #EUbudget #IPCEI #IndustrialPolicy #TerritorialCohesion #FutureofEurope