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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 2h

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🎧Weekend Podcast Listening

How #China are using Rare Earth Export Controls to apply pressure to US - Taiwan Policy👉

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 16h

Readers may also be interested in our recent podcast in which we discussed the background to this topic ⏯️

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Rare Earths, Real Pressure - China's Coercive Push on U.S.-Taiwan Policy

Podcast Episode · Perspectives with Neilo · 10/07/2025 · 21m

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Taiwan National Day 2025 to all our Taiwanese Listeners and Friends!

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Our latest podcast investigates how China is planning to use its monopoly on Rare Earths to pressure the US to denounce Taiwan Independence. Listen here ▶️

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The picture conceptually shows a large mine similar to a rare earth mining operation with lots of trucks and equipment moving material. The mine opening is flanked by Chinese flags and in the distance are smoke stacks where the mined material is being processed.
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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 2d

@merics.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org
@chinaobservers.eu @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social

Our latest podcast investigates how China is planning to use its monopoly on Rare Earths to pressure the US to denounce Taiwan Independence. Listen here ▶️

Apple
apple.co/42uhKcX

Spotify
bit.ly/3KX24sE

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 2d

#Geopolitics #Taiwan #rareearths
Our latest podcast explores how China is leveraging its monopoly on rare earths to further its authoritarian objectives ⏯️

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 4d

🎧 New episode out now!

We examine how China is using rare earth leverage in its trade tactics to isolate Taiwan — and why Trump-era diplomacy could be key to what happens next!

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Picture exemplifies a pile of rare earth materials with a Chinese flag planted in the middle symbolizing China's monopoly on the rare earth industry. Our latest podcast examines how China is reportedly using this leverage in trade talks with the US to isolate Taiwan.
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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 3d

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China controls 90% of Rare Earth production. How are the CCP using this dominance to further their authoritarian agenda? #Taiwan

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 4d

🎧 New episode out now!

We examine how China is using rare earth leverage in its trade tactics to isolate Taiwan — and why Trump-era diplomacy could be key to what happens next!

Apple
apple.co/42uhKcX

Spotify
bit.ly/3KX24sE

SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/oHSE4V0OQEMb...

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 12d

It beggars belief as to why the HSE contracted a company which had previously been involved in running music festivals in the Middle East and eastern Europe to procure ventilators in the first place! Roqu "received €14.1m from HSE to procure 328 ventilators from China at the height of the pandemic"

Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 12d

A man behind a festival management company in dispute with the HSE over more than €10m in unusable covid ventilators is to install a new €3.3m hydroelectric turbine system on the Galway City canal network.

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Businessman in dispute with HSE over faulty ventilators wins contract for Galway hydro turbine project

Robert Quirke's company Roqu Media International received €14.1m from the HSE to procure 328 ventilators from China at the height of the pandemic, but just 72 ventilators were received, and the device...

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 12d

China sentences its former agricultural minister to death.
Tang Renjian was sentenced to death by the court due to prolonged corruption. #China #CCP

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China sentences its former agricultural minister to death

Tang Renjian was sentenced to death by the court due to prolonged corruption.

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 16d

Really excellent #RTEInvestigates !
Forced Fashion looks at the links between Irish fashion retailers - including Shein - and forced labor in China.

It's not often we get such a vivid glimpse here in Ireland of how the Chinese Communist Party treats their own people!

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Suppliers to major Irish retailers linked to forced labour cotton

Factories that imported hundreds of tons of cotton fabric in 2024 from two companies linked to a Chinese forced labour programme are supplying some of Ireland's major clothing retailers, an RTÉ invest...

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 16d

Really excellent #RTEInvestigates !
Forced Fashion looks at the links between Irish fashion retailers - including Shein - and forced labor in China.

It's not often we get such a vivid glimpse here in Ireland of how the Chinese Communist Party treats their own people!

www.rte.ie/news/investi...

Suppliers to major Irish retailers linked to forced labour cotton

Factories that imported hundreds of tons of cotton fabric in 2024 from two companies linked to a Chinese forced labour programme are supplying some of Ireland's major clothing retailers, an RTÉ invest...

www.rte.ie

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 16d

Recommended: Wednesday night at 9:35pm on RTE 1

Suppliers to major Irish retailers linked to forced labour cotton

www.rte.ie/news/investi...

Suppliers to major Irish retailers linked to forced labour cotton

Factories that imported hundreds of tons of cotton fabric in 2024 from two companies linked to a Chinese forced labour programme are supplying some of Ireland's major clothing retailers, an RTÉ invest...

www.rte.ie

Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 16d

London master’s student who advocated for Tibetan people detained during visit to China, friend says | The Independent share.google/6ija63mUqDTD...

London master’s student who advocated for Tibetans detained during China visit

Zhang Yadi was due to begin her master’s degree at SOAS University of London this month

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 18d

@fiannafailparty.bsky.social

Taoiseach, please support Taiwan's inclusion at the UN. It's important that the voices of all democracies get a hearing and that none are left behind.
Thank You 🙏
🇮🇪💚🇹🇼
#unga80
#un

Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 19d

The shenanigans going on in BYD China!

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BYD EVs Sold as Scrap! Cheap Chinese EVs Flood Brazil, Sparking Anger, $70 Billion Empire at Risk

YouTube video by China Observer

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 19d

Berkshire Hathaway has completely exited its extremely profitable equity investment in the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD

Buffett Munger BYD exits stake share.google/QSTY5ILrGwo8...

Buffett's Berkshire totally exits its profitable stake in Chinese EV maker bought because of Munger

Berkshire Hathaway has completed exited its extremely profitable equity investment in the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD.

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 20d

A new study reveals that popular VPN connections provide less safety than widely believed. The findings are alarming, especially for users in authoritarian states.

Anything but safe: Using VPN can bear immense risks – DW – 09/20/2025 share.google/ZjqwAnjQO0Jc...

Anything but safe: Using VPN can bear immense risks – DW – 09/20/2025

A new study reveals that popular VPN connections provide less safety than widely believed. The findings are alarming, especially for users in authoritarian states.

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 26d

"China has maliciously distorted UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, excluding Taiwan from the UN system."

Democratic nations like Ireland should recognize Taiwan's international status and contributions.

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Foreign Minister: ‘Chip in with Taiwan’ for global peace and prosperity - Rti

United States media outlets published an op-ed by Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), call...

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 26d

China's market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country's anti-monopoly law in relation to its aquisition of Mellanox in 2020.

I wonder why China are raising this now, 5 years after the fact?

Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · 29d

No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there.
Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China.
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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs

With Chinese youth unemployment high, individuals are paying to go into offices and pretend to work.

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Perspectives with Neilo @pwneilo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council stated that Beijing’s largest-ever military parade on Wednesday cost 36 billion CNY (4.3 billion EUR), equivalent to two percent of China’s official defense budget for 2025.
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Taiwan flags huge cost of China's military parade in growing war of words

Taiwan accused China on Monday of squandering the equivalent of 2% of its entire defence budget to commemorate the end of World War Two as this year's 80th anniversary fuels a bitter battle of narratives between Beijing and Taipei.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 Trump has no ideas left to advance the peace process in Ukraine, his next "two-week deadline" has expired, and nothing has been decided about the meeting between Putin and Zelensky, — The Times

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