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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 4h

And the paper can be found here: http://AIPNET.io

AI-generated Production Network (AIPNET)

A knowledge graph of production-linkages built with AI.

aipnet.io

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 4h

And the paper can be found here: http://AIPNET.io

AI-generated Production Network (AIPNET)

A knowledge graph of production-linkages built with AI.

aipnet.io

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

Here is my intervention from June: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkwMyUx8ucc&t=15663s

And reflections from 2024 on the catch 22
https://x.com/fetzert/status/1806979969437900997https://x.com/fetzert/status/1806979969437900997

THE BERLIN SUMMIT 2025 | Winning back the future

YouTube video by Forum NewEconomy

www.youtube.com

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

physical goods. Europe is getting squeezed from all sides and it is only with a strengthening of the single market along with common/mutualisation of defense that Europe can come out "intact". There is a potential much broader reconfiguration of economies that may be an upside...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

full transparency over end use. This data makes up the core of businesses operating in trade intermediation. It captures the weaponisation of the eroded productive base in EU/US. In the paper we document more broad patterns highlighting CNs growing centrality in production of...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

could be 280530 Rare-earth metals → micro-alloyed metals/sheets (rare earths improve properties) → 722410 recast rolled into packaging → 731010 - iron/steel containers → 210420 - Homogenised composite food preparations. You see the pathway. The MOFCOM order requires...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

Here is my intervention from June: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkwMyUx8ucc&t=15663s

And reflections from 2024 on the catch 22
https://x.com/fetzert/status/1806979969437900997https://x.com/fetzert/status/1806979969437900997

THE BERLIN SUMMIT 2025 | Winning back the future

YouTube video by Forum NewEconomy

www.youtube.com

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

dual uses embedded in value chains and production processes. So let me give a concrete example: HS code: 210420 Composite Food Prep Homogenised composite food preparations affected – this is basically baby food OR it could be military field rations. A vector of exposure...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

physical goods. Europe is getting squeezed from all sides and it is only with a strengthening of the single market along with common/mutualisation of defense that Europe can come out "intact". There is a potential much broader reconfiguration of economies that may be an upside...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

full transparency over end use. This data makes up the core of businesses operating in trade intermediation. It captures the weaponisation of the eroded productive base in EU/US. In the paper we document more broad patterns highlighting CNs growing centrality in production of...

1

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

could be 280530 Rare-earth metals → micro-alloyed metals/sheets (rare earths improve properties) → 722410 recast rolled into packaging → 731010 - iron/steel containers → 210420 - Homogenised composite food preparations. You see the pathway. The MOFCOM order requires...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

The MOFCOM order is in essence a classification engine defining a rulebook for exports authorizing exports. The key objective: limit exports with dual use/military use. This is a common feature of EU/US export control vis-a-vis RU around Ukraine invasion. Rare earths have many...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

dual uses embedded in value chains and production processes. So let me give a concrete example: HS code: 210420 Composite Food Prep Homogenised composite food preparations affected – this is basically baby food OR it could be military field rations. A vector of exposure...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

The recent Chinese MOFCOM announcement on rare earth and other derivate product export restrictions is a HUGE deal. It marks a major escalation. In June, at the @ForumNewEconomy summit I highlighted this possibility... why is it a big deal? Let me give an example...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

The MOFCOM order is in essence a classification engine defining a rulebook for exports authorizing exports. The key objective: limit exports with dual use/military use. This is a common feature of EU/US export control vis-a-vis RU around Ukraine invasion. Rare earths have many...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 6h

The recent Chinese MOFCOM announcement on rare earth and other derivate product export restrictions is a HUGE deal. It marks a major escalation. In June, at the @ForumNewEconomy summit I highlighted this possibility... why is it a big deal? Let me give an example...

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

competent prosecutor.
b) Immediate transmission of all files.
c) Submission of forensic findings.The Prosecutor’s Office orders an autopsy and toxicological tests for alcohol and drugs at the Institute of Forensic Medicine.

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

to prepare a report to the Head of the Border Troops, the President, and the Border Directorate.

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Greater Berlin, Department I A, must be informed without delay.
In the case of death by firearm or drowning, the following steps are required:
a) Notification of the

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

the autopsy. All papers are to be observed carefully; the investigation into the deceased is to be conducted without delay by Department K/IJ.
Results must be submitted in writing.

The responsible Generalmajor (Major General) must be informed immediately about the incident and the findings.

He is

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

issuing of the death certificate being carried out exclusively there.

Doctors of the People’s Police are not authorized to issue death certificates.

Clothing, valuables, and other objects remain only temporarily with the deceased.

The handover to the Stasi begins immediately upon completion of

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

district of Berlin-Mitte (West Berlin). The Institute for Forensic Medicine is to be notified immediately for the transfer of the deceased from the hospital.

If the death occurred in the border area, the removal of the body is always arranged by the Institute for Forensic Medicine, with the

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

literal translation:

To be observed:
In the event of death in a hospital, the place of death is to be entered as the hospital’s address on the death certificate.

If the death occurs at the border crossing or on the way to the hospital, the place of death shall in all cases be recorded as the

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

listening.

There is so much more to be said about this, but I came across this gem. This was the official order of the Ministry of State Security of how to administratively record deaths that occurred or appeared around the escape from the East to the West -- Republikflucht.

Here is the

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

Mauertote and the administrative state.
On my recent visit to Berlin, where I played tour guide to somebody who stems for the nation that probably perfected the surveillance state -- it was important to me to explain how German and European history affects the way that Europe thinks about social

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Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

competent prosecutor.
b) Immediate transmission of all files.
c) Submission of forensic findings.The Prosecutor’s Office orders an autopsy and toxicological tests for alcohol and drugs at the Institute of Forensic Medicine.

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

to prepare a report to the Head of the Border Troops, the President, and the Border Directorate.

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Greater Berlin, Department I A, must be informed without delay.
In the case of death by firearm or drowning, the following steps are required:
a) Notification of the

1

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

the autopsy. All papers are to be observed carefully; the investigation into the deceased is to be conducted without delay by Department K/IJ.
Results must be submitted in writing.

The responsible Generalmajor (Major General) must be informed immediately about the incident and the findings.

He is

1

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

issuing of the death certificate being carried out exclusively there.

Doctors of the People’s Police are not authorized to issue death certificates.

Clothing, valuables, and other objects remain only temporarily with the deceased.

The handover to the Stasi begins immediately upon completion of

1

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

district of Berlin-Mitte (West Berlin). The Institute for Forensic Medicine is to be notified immediately for the transfer of the deceased from the hospital.

If the death occurred in the border area, the removal of the body is always arranged by the Institute for Forensic Medicine, with the

1

Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com · 1d

literal translation:

To be observed:
In the event of death in a hospital, the place of death is to be entered as the hospital’s address on the death certificate.

If the death occurs at the border crossing or on the way to the hospital, the place of death shall in all cases be recorded as the

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