Chinese manufacturing dominance, the slave-trade & the industrial revolution, Yuan Shikai remembered & anti-fascist footballers

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A. D. Colquhoun (Australian, 1894-1983) Artist and sitter c. 1938 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Value-added of Chinese manufacturing at market rates now matches that of USA and EU combined

Policy Tensor @policytensor

I had to see with my own eyes. In terms of value-added at market rates, China ($4.9tn) is now as big a mfg power as US ($2.5tn) and EU ($2.5tn) COMBINED. 👀

Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE

FYI chart: shocking share shift https://t.co/OrN3TM3fg2

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The new multipolarity is real! Calling it non-aligned does not do this justice.

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How the slave-trade accelerated the British industrial revolution.

Joachim Voth @joachim_voth

Did slavery facilitate Europe's early rise to riches? Steve Redding @ReddingEcon, Stephan Heblich, and I focus on the single biggest slave-trading nation, Britain, and revisit the famous "Williams hypothesis". We combine theory and geographically disaggregated data to show

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Tell me you didn’t want a “Big Shed Briefing” (sic)

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(In)human warehouses - mega prisons

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Senga Nengudi, “Ceremony for Freeway Fets”, documentation of performance and installation piece, Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles (1978)

In solidarity with comrade Lineker … a thread on anti-fascist English footballers

London Seaward FC 💙 @LondonSeawardFC

May 1938. England play Germany in Berlin. The British Government told the FA to order players to do the Nazi salute. The photo remains infamous. Absent from the photo is Wolves legend Stan Cullis. When told to acknowledge Nazism he replied: "Count me out" He was dropped. /1 🧵

Luxury is not decoupling from China - one more reason this Cold War is different!

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“as I appear to myself”

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No anniversary is innocent … Yuan Shikai remembered

Michał Bogusz @boguszmichal

FYI: Many Chinese friends publish in social media a picture of Yuan Shikai, who was the first president of the Chinese Rep. elected by popular vote. He later crowned himself emperor. It so happened that he took office on March 10, and today Xi Jinping secured his third term. 😎

Senga Nengudi, Masking It, 1981. Video projection. Collaborators: Butch Morris, Cheryl Banks.