#protectionism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #protectionism, aggregated by home.social.
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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/
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Automakers Pressure Congress To Ban Chinese EVs To ‘Protect Privacy’
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Canada pushed toward China trade by Trump tariffs, ex-ambassador says
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#Canada #china #donaldtrump #foreignpolicy #MarkCarney #politics #protectionism #Trade #XiJinping
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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/
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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/
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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/
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The Moose has Left the Woods!
OR when your business model is crumbling before your eyes - go BEG the government to "protect" your product!
AI Executives are shitting their pants given the release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. I seem to recall a similar situation re DeepSeek-1 in Jan. 2025.
All the freaking out about "winning and losing" and whining about "distillation" re China are the WRONG things to focus on.
It is a fallacy to think US Frontier Labs would be successful in locking down AI models and charging high prices for access in perpetuity. It is inevitable that open weight models would catch up, and put SERIOUS pressure on pricing.
Welcome to software - It just happens that China is leading the charge on this one.
The magic is NOT about the model. The magic is creating the guardrails and infrastructure (ecosystem) around the model, and supporting practical use cases the model excels at, and making them so good to use that no user wants to switch to something "almost as good", even if it’s a touch cheaper.
Net-net, governments cannot stop software at the border. Import/Export controls will NOT be effective at stopping Chinese firms from distilling US models, even if the USA is successful at starving China of inference, which also will NOT happen. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-execs-quaking-boots-chinese-models #AI #LLMs #Kimi-K3 #Kimi #FrontierModels #USA #China #ImportControls #ExportControls #Software #Distillation #Open-Weight-Models #AIPloicy #Protectionism #AIRegulation #DeepSeek #Software #OpenSource #Moonshot
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Ukraine will unite with Europe's security system or some of Europe will become part of Russia -- Ukrainian forces withdraw from villages in eastern Sumy Oblast amid heavy fighting -- Investigation: Western companies miss deadline to exit Russia’s main drone production site -- Magyar rejects calls for Ukraine to cede territory, invokes Hungary's 1956 resistance ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-14-2026/
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Ukraine will unite with Europe's security system or some of Europe will become part of Russia -- Ukrainian forces withdraw from villages in eastern Sumy Oblast amid heavy fighting -- Investigation: Western companies miss deadline to exit Russia’s main drone production site -- Magyar rejects calls for Ukraine to cede territory, invokes Hungary's 1956 resistance ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-14-2026/
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Ukraine will unite with Europe's security system or some of Europe will become part of Russia -- Ukrainian forces withdraw from villages in eastern Sumy Oblast amid heavy fighting -- Investigation: Western companies miss deadline to exit Russia’s main drone production site -- Magyar rejects calls for Ukraine to cede territory, invokes Hungary's 1956 resistance ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-14-2026/
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Ukraine will unite with Europe's security system or some of Europe will become part of Russia -- Ukrainian forces withdraw from villages in eastern Sumy Oblast amid heavy fighting -- Investigation: Western companies miss deadline to exit Russia’s main drone production site -- Magyar rejects calls for Ukraine to cede territory, invokes Hungary's 1956 resistance ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-14-2026/
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Ukraine will unite with Europe's security system or some of Europe will become part of Russia -- Ukrainian forces withdraw from villages in eastern Sumy Oblast amid heavy fighting -- Investigation: Western companies miss deadline to exit Russia’s main drone production site -- Magyar rejects calls for Ukraine to cede territory, invokes Hungary's 1956 resistance ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-14-2026/
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"WHEN THE European Union increased tariffs on Chinese battery electric vehicles (EVs) in 2024, the logic was straightforward: raise prices and imports will fall. A study published by the Kiel Institute, a think-tank, estimated that higher levies would cause Chinese car exports to plunge by 25%. After more than a year, that forecast is wrong. According to China’s customs agency, car exports to Europe rose to nearly 1.2m in the 12 months to November, up by 26% from a year earlier (see chart 1). The data suggest that Europe’s failure to stem the rise of Chinese-made vehicles has less to do with weak tariffs than Chinese carmakers’ talent for steering around them.
Europe’s EV tariffs were designed to address what the European Commission calls the “unfair subsidisation” of Chinese producers by the state and restore a “level playing field”. But instead of imposing a uniform duty on all Chinese cars, the EU opted for a tailored approach. Extra tariffs were applied only to purely battery-powered vehicles, based on each carmaker’s estimated level of government support. On top of the bloc’s existing 10% import duty, BYD (China’s biggest producer of EVs) faced an additional 17%, Geely-owned brands 18.8% and SAIC 35.3%. Other Chinese carmakers were subject to tariffs of 20.7%. Hybrids were spared.
Rather than retreat, Chinese carmakers changed lanes, pivoting from EVs to hybrids, which combine electric motors with petrol engines. This shift is evident in the data. Whereas monthly Chinese EV sales to Europe have grown by 12% in the past year, exports of hybrids have surged by 155%, albeit from a low base (see chart 2). “It was only a matter of time before the Chinese manufacturers changed their strategy,” Beatrix Keim of Germany’s Centre for Automotive Research recently told Handelsblatt, a German newspaper. Hybrids are now the fastest-growing segment of China’s car exports..."
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/12/18/how-chinese-cars-are-beating-european-tariffs
#EU #China #Tariffs #Protectionism #TradeWars #EVs #Hybrids