De AIVD waarschuwt uitgebreid voor het gebruik van nieuwe, slimme auto’s. Doe je Chinese EV maar weg als je niet bespioneerd wilt worden

The close relationship between the FIFA President and the US President has reached a financial dimension that is deeply damaging football. No one has the right to sell our game. #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump #FIFA #UEFA #USA #Sellout

Trump: The CHIPS Act…. if you weren't transgender as an example, you didn't qualify, so they get the money, they look all over for transgender people to run the company, they couldn't find them. They weren't into the chip making business, I guess, right? They had other things on their mind.

EXCLUSIVE: How the track foreigners in China - We got rare access to demo system developed by the Ministry of Public Security in China for the prefecture of Zhangjiakou, to track and surveil foreigners visiting or being residents ( actually it applies to most nationals as well, but in this case it seems to be aimed at foreigners ). It is officially known as "Dynamic control platform for overseas personnel". 1/12

Before Air Force One left China, all members of the U.S. delegation threw away the souvenirs and gifts given to them by the Chinese side, including gifts, badges, brooches, souvenirs, and cell phones.

The man who built the iPhone just entered China carrying a burner phone because his own device is considered a security liability in Beijing. Tim Cook’s final diplomatic act before stepping down as Apple CEO on September 1 is negotiating in a country where American intelligence considers every piece of inbound electronics a target for state-sponsored surveillance. The executive who spent a decade arguing Apple devices are the most secure consumer electronics on earth had to leave them at the airport. On May 13, President Trump arrived in Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping accompanied by the most concentrated delegation of American corporate power ever assembled on a single diplomatic mission. Cook was there. Elon Musk rode Air Force One. Jensen Huang joined at the last minute during a refueling stop in Alaska because the semiconductor question was too urgent to leave him behind. Larry Fink of BlackRock, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, Jane Fraser of Citi, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm, Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron, and Larry Culp of GE Aerospace were all on the manifest. Every one of them left personal phones in the United States. Every one carried a clean, stripped temporary device with no stored data and no access to corporate systems. Plugging any device into any USB port in China risks data exfiltration through what federal agencies call juice jacking. The protocol has been standard for senior US government travel to China for over a decade. What is new is the roster. The CEOs of the companies building the $700 billion AI infrastructure, designing the chips, manufacturing the devices, managing the capital, and running the supply chains all entered the country that sits on the other side of every one of those dependencies, carrying phones that could not send an email. Cook is negotiating Apple’s supply chain future in a country where Apple manufactures the majority of its products. He is doing so in his final months as CEO, weeks after announcing John Ternus as his successor, and days after Apple reached a preliminary deal with Intel to manufacture chips in the United States as a hedge against exactly this kind of dependency. The same month. The same executive. One hand reaching toward American factories. The other hand reaching into Beijing with a disposable phone. Huang’s addition is the most revealing signal. Nvidia was initially absent from the list. The chip designer whose GPUs power every AI data center and the $700 billion capex buildout was not originally invited. He joined during a refueling stop in Anchorage because the semiconductor question, export controls on advanced chips China wants and America restricts, could not be discussed without the man who designs them. Trump delayed this trip from March because of the Iran war. He arrived in Beijing while the ceasefire he negotiated is on what he called “massive life support.” He is negotiating the most important bilateral trade relationship on earth while simultaneously managing a military conflict in the Persian Gulf. The delegation carried burner phones because China is hostile to American electronics. But the real vulnerability is not the device. It is the dependency the device represents. Every executive in that room runs a company that cannot fully function without the country they are visiting. The phones were stripped. The supply chains were not. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

Joe @TheStalwart and Tracy @tracyalloway have such a banger of an Odd Lots ep with Mariana Mazzucato. Sent me on a long exploration of how different govs are actually using AI for public good. Some excellent examples from China! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Fun video - the EU delegation in China has not been allowed to open an official WeChat account. Tencent told diplomats they needed MFA approval, MFA told them it's a private company matter - so the delegation, in limbo, goes without an official account.

NEW: “A decade into Xi Jinping’s Sinicization campaign and nearly eight years since the 2018 Holy See-China agreement, Catholics in China face escalating repression that violates their religious freedoms” - Yalkun Uluyol, China researcher at HRW “Pope Leo XIV should urgently review the agreement and press Beijing to end the persecution and intimidation of underground churches, clergy, and worshipers.” Read the report👇hrw.org/news/2026/04/15/chin…

Yeni Macaristan Başbakanı Peter Magyar, devlet televizyonu M1'de ilk defa konuk alındı ve şok açıklamalarda bulundu: -Bu kanalın haber servisini askıya alacağız. Bu benimle ilgili değil, intikam peşinde değilim. Halkımız gerçeği yansıtan bir haberciliği hak ediyor. -Orban döneminde iş insanlarına ve vakıflara verilen varlıkları kamulaştıracağız. -Orban'a yakın Mathias Corvinus Collegium Vakfı'na MOL (Petrol şirketi) ve Gedeon Richter'in (İlaç şirketi) %10'u bedelsiz devredildi. Bu hisseleri geri alacağız. -16 yıllık Orban döneminin ardından bu ülkede 400 bin Macar çocuğu derin yoksulluk yaşıyor. -Cumhurbaşkanı Sulyok, benim gözümde ve halkın gözünde artık bu ülkenin cumhurbaşkanı değil. -(Sunucunun kontra olarak Zelenski ile görüşmesini sorması üzerine) Bu esprinizi anlıyorum, hoşuma da gidiyor. Ama artık bu göndermelerinizin bir anlamı kalmadı. -Size göre Almanya çöktü, orada internet yok, insanlar seks bile yapmıyor. Macar halkı size gülüyordu. -Bu kanalda küçük çocuklarımın bile benimle konuşmadığı söylendi, oysa çocuklarım benimle birlikte yaşıyor. -(Sunucunun sözünü kesmesi üzerine) Bu stüdyoda hiçbir sunucu, Macaristan'ın en yozlaşmış ve en yalancı başbakanının sözünü kesmeye cesaret edememişti. -(Haber servisini kapatma kararının yasal dayanağı sorulunca) Bu kanalda birinin beni yasayı ihlal etmekle suçlaması, bir hırsızın polisi suçlaması gibi görünüyor.

European businesses are seriously spooked by China's new supply chain law EU Chamber in China statement says companies will struggle to comply with both EU rules and Chinese ones. Absolutely caught in a bind

Crows are now employed in Sweden 😭