#protectionism — Public Fediverse posts

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Mainland #Chinese #enterprises are increasingly adopting comprehensive #global #business #strategies, targeting both advanced #economies and #emerging #markets, according to new research from the #HongKong #Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The #survey highlights #HK’s pivotal role in helping these #China #firms navigate challenges such as shifting trade #policies, #protectionism, and #SupplyChain reconfigurations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-remains-top-services-hub-for-chinese-firms-expanding-overseas/

Weekly output: Waze updates, Google Images turns 25, Samsung turns to more titanium, Frontier Airlines + Starlink, bill to ban Chinese cars

This week may have featured an unwanted import of smoky, hazy air from Canadian wildfires, but at least that miasma did not descend on the District until Friday–the day after I got to the one Fort Reno concert I’m likely to be able to see this summer.

Patreon readers got a bonus post assessing when I’m likely to need to replace my three oldest computers–and explaining why the oldest machine is not at the front of that list.

7/13/2026: Waze Gets AI, Personalization Options—Including One to Make It Less Chatty, PCMag

I have to admit that I had not used Waze in quite some time, so I downloaded a copy to refresh my memory. I’m glad I did, as this exercise reminded that Waze has yet to match Google’s ability to show which routing will be most efficient.

7/14/2026: Google Images Marks Its 25 Birthday by Adding AI Image Generation, PCMag

This was another Google item from an embargoed announcement. It was going to be an unusually short post, but then I realized that Google’s anniversary post didn’t mention the date the company launched Google Images. Some quick Googling surfaced a New York Times story apparently written on that day, July 12, 2001.

7/14/2026: Samsung Teases New Screen Substrate for Its Next Foldable: Titanium, PCMag

One of my editors asked if I could pick up this announcement; since I try to be the guy who solves problems for my editors and since I rarely get to cover metallurgical topics, I said I would.

7/15/2026: Frontier Airlines Is Adding Starlink, But You Might Have to Pay for It, PCMag

I was going to write this Tuesday but had to set it aside for the Samsung news. But that delay gave me some extra time to send a further round of questions to Frontier’s PR office about their weird unwillingness to say what the service will cost (if an ultra-low-cost carrier that literally has “ULCC” as its stock ticker doesn’t say upfront that a service is free, it’s not going to be free) and whether they would finally add power outlets (apparently not).

7/18/2026: Bill Would Ban Chinese Connected Cars in the US—From Sale and on the Streets, PCMag

I could have written this post in fewer words if I hadn’t gotten into how Congress has done nothing to address people’s privacy concerns about non-Chinese connected cars, but I wasn’t going to do that. I will not stop reminding readers about how Congress keeps failing to pass any sort of comprehensive privacy legislation.

"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.
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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."

https://www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/industrial-policy-returns-as-a-weapon

#IndustrialPolicy #EconomicNationalism #Nationalism #Protectionism #PoliticalEconomy