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#  @RnaudBertrand Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand posts on X about china, tariffs, told, beijing the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 5081 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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"The funniest part of this is that Wan Hai is a Taiwanese shipping company which goes to show they're starting to understand that acknowledging that Taiwan is part of China does come with its advantages 😏"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1937006266418901235) 2025-06-23 04:34:16 UTC 339.7K followers, 77.4K engagements
"Ha yes the extraordinarily complex science of early-stage investing where you need to a) look at startup pitches b) decide if you give them money. How could the Chinese have possibly cracked that code without American help 🤦 After IP theft this "we taught the Chinese everything" is the new coping mechanism to reconcile China's rise and American exceptionalism - "we didn't lose we were just super generous and gave it all away." Because we all know that American capitalists are famously all about selflessness and altruism"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1945414470060081172) 2025-07-16 09:25:28 UTC 340K followers, 126.9K engagements
"This is beyond shameful and a terrifying sign. Albanese is as close to a political saint as we're likely to see and watching her be persecuted for her very virtues reveals just how morally collapsed the West has become. She literally personifies the highest ideals of public service: profound integrity intelligence graceful eloquence and an almost sacred commitment to the voiceless and defenseless. The fact that we're in an era where we persecute figures like her who advocate for murdered children and civilians in order to protect (and keep arming) their killers proves we've abandoned any"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1943210988846878737) 2025-07-10 07:29:37 UTC 339.3K followers, 428.8K engagements
"I'm an extremely fast eater myself (I've literally won speed-eating contests) and since the eating style in China is to all share dishes my wife's common saying is: "since I'm married with Arnaud if I don't eat fast I don't eat" 😅"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947008681905688863) 2025-07-20 19:00:18 UTC 340K followers, 49.8K engagements
"It's done: China just launched the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam project It'll be by far the worlds largest hydroelectric facility generating X times more electricity than the Three Gorges dam XXX billion kilowatt-hours. This dam project alone could power almost a quarter (21.6%) of all US households since the average U.S. household consumes about 10500 kilowatthours (kWh) of electricity per year and there are XXX million households in the US It could also power the entirety of France and Italy COMBINED since the average electricity consumption in France is X XXX kWh per person per"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1946854532043899326) 2025-07-20 08:47:45 UTC 340K followers, 324.7K engagements
"Wow I never thought he would do it: Macron announces France will recognize the state of Palestine in September at the General Assembly of the UN. Credit when credit is due: an extremely rare good move by Macron. Way too late but better late than never"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1948464648899944872) 2025-07-24 19:25:47 UTC 340K followers, 151K engagements
"Back in my childhood home in Provence like every summer. And now with my daughters who at least for a few weeks a year get to live French countryside style the way their father grew up. Every year when I come back the house has been invaded by vegetation so I end up spending a significant part of my holidays just cutting the growth all to redo it all over again the year after 😅 With my daughters reliving my childhood and me cutting the same vegetation year after year it probably makes the cycles of nature the major theme of this house. Which is what a childhood home is all about: a place"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1948124402681598391) 2025-07-23 20:53:46 UTC 340K followers, 134.4K engagements
"A reminder that that's the way the EU was sold to us: This is a 1987 ad by France's foreign ministry with the message that the EU will enable us to be stronger and to better stand up to the US. As is now painfully obvious the exact opposite happened: it proved an instrument of collective weakness and institutionalized vassalization. The level of deception is insane when you think about it"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949849853401366530) 2025-07-28 15:10:06 UTC 340K followers, 14K engagements
"As a big river swimming fan and being in Paris today I had to try it: swimming in the Seine river which is now possible since the 5th of July. Honestly pretty cool experience in all meanings of the word since the water is a refreshing 23C. They have X sites and we tried the "Grenelle" one very close to the Eiffel tower. The water quality is frankly not bad I saw many fishes in the water and it feels quite clean I even put my head under the water as you can see on the video"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1946187799230558318) 2025-07-18 12:38:24 UTC 340K followers, 52.3K engagements
"Fascinatingly part of the plan as per China's Eastern Data Western Computing initiative might be AI 👇 It's not only that the dam project will generate immense amounts of electricity that can be used for computing but also the fact that it's located in naturally cold Tibet with close to freezing water temperature - perfect to cool down data centers for free. As Keji Mao - who worked as a Research Fellow at the powerful NDRC (the top organization for China's economic planning and policymaking) - puts it: "China will transform industrial capacity into electricity electricity into computational"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1946859712638751191) 2025-07-20 09:08:21 UTC 340K followers, 55.4K engagements
"This is easily the best graphs I've seen of who actually walks the talk in clean energy. China is by far the biggest investor in clean energy on the planet with nearly $700bn invested in 2024 3.7x what it invested in fossil fuels. North America on the other hand is by far the biggest investor in fossil fuels (about twice more than the Middle-East) and invest less than half what China does in clean energy"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1798948264651452581) 2024-06-07 05:21:03 UTC 340K followers, 82.4K engagements
"This is a funny and very revealing exchange: Filipino President Marcos undoubtedly the most committed US vassal in Asia doubles down on his commitment to the US in front of Trump saying "there's no need to balance the relationship between the US and China" and that his "strongest partner has always been the US." Trump immediately rebukes him saying he "doesn't mind if Marcos gets along with China because we're getting along with China very well" and telling Marcos that getting along with China is "doing what's right for his country" would "make the Philippines great again" and "wouldn't"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949086436587618421) 2025-07-26 12:36:33 UTC 340K followers, 94.4K engagements
"De Gaulle once said: "You can't rely on what's soft only on what's solid." Trump with this is not only extracting Europe's wealth which will make it even "softer" than it already is but it will also breed resentment against the US for generations. Not sure that's worth the short-term profit"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949580632902033749) 2025-07-27 21:20:18 UTC 340K followers, 245.5K engagements
"This is fascinating: China is virtually unique in the Islamic world for having an established centuries-old tradition of female imams (n ahong - ) in women-only mosques (known as nsi literally "womens temple"). In these mosques the female imams lead women-only prayers usually standing shoulder to shoulder with the other women (as opposed to in front for male imams). They also teach women and girls how to recite the Quran basic Islamic doctrine and offer guidance on daily life from a religious perspective. The origins of this tradition date to the late Ming and early Qing period (17th18th"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1948358496040137134) 2025-07-24 12:23:58 UTC 340K followers, 157.7K engagements
"Or even the French Parliament which says in a new report that Europe needs to break free from its subordination to the US and instead achieve strategic autonomy by partnering with China"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1943699536280502407) 2025-07-11 15:50:56 UTC 339.8K followers, 24.4K engagements
"If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth) they should be beyond appalled by this "deal": It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits The "deal" is: - The EU now gets charged XX% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU - The EU agrees to invest $XXX billion in the US for no other obvious reason than pleasing "daddy" - The EU will "purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" - The EU"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949578088712712651) 2025-07-27 21:10:12 UTC 340K followers, 2.2M engagements
"This is beyond parody: VDL says that US LNG gas is "more affordable and better" than Russian gas in order to justify the unequal treaty she just signed Europe for in which - among other concessions - she commits to buy $XXX billion of US LNG over the next X years. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can understand that gas that comes directly from your next-door neighbor via pipeline is by definition much cheaper than gas that has to be liquefied shipped thousands of miles across the Atlantic in specialized tankers and then regasified in Europe. What you have here is a perfect illustration"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949785400588812490) 2025-07-28 10:53:59 UTC 340K followers, 155.4K engagements
"There's no overstating how extraordinary this is. The West has now lost political support from the whole of Asia even Japan and South Korea"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1937126934309405148) 2025-06-23 12:33:45 UTC 340K followers, 1.8M engagements
"@M_gh_nyc They defend it by. causing war Interesting concept of security"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949581193357201710) 2025-07-27 21:22:32 UTC 340K followers, 54.8K engagements
"Just to impress how insane the transfer of its citizens' wealth to the US that the EU committed to is: when you run the numbers even discounting tariffs we're talking $3000 - $4000 PER EU CITIZEN () sent to the US under this unequal treaty. In effect given that the average EU salary is approximately 2464 a month this mean that each EU citizen will need to work the equivalent of 1-2 months just to pay for this tribute. Here are the calculation: $XXX billion "investment" in the US + "hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" + $ XXX billion dollars of US LNG = $1.55"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949808651406909745) 2025-07-28 12:26:22 UTC 340K followers, 93.7K engagements
"@fairer4scoring @thinking_panda Someone is obviously unfamiliar with the North China phenotype 😅"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1944337802474484104) 2025-07-13 10:07:10 UTC 339.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Andr Rieu is what Americans who don't know European culture actually think it is it's like a fake Disney version of it. This 👇 is genuine European culture: we're in Avignon at the theater festival we just watched an absolutely brilliant play (the actor Jean-Baptiste Darosey pictured with us is truly extraordinary) and we're now eating cheese sitting on a public bench on a beautiful square"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1948717105848701422) 2025-07-25 12:08:58 UTC 340K followers, 30.3K engagements
"AFP reports that its reporters (one text freelancer three photographers and six video freelancers) still on-site in Gaza are currently dying from hunger. They write: "Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we have lost journalists in conflicts we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks but none of us has the memory of having seen a collaborator die of hunger." _________________________ Translation of the full text: "AFP works with one text freelancer three photographers and six video freelancers in the Gaza Strip since the departure of its staff journalists during 2024. Along with a few"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947760255552905369) 2025-07-22 20:46:47 UTC 340K followers, 119.8K engagements
"You need to be a special kind of psychopath to think these images somehow reflect well on you: a large group of emaciated and obviously desperate civilians in a landscape of total desolation that you caused scrambling towards a rare aid truck while your soldiers have to be repeatedly instructed not to shoot them from afar which means it isn't the norm"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947605368097354204) 2025-07-22 10:31:19 UTC 340K followers, 326.6K engagements
"This is quite pathetic. Taiwan's pro-independence DPP party led an unprecedented recall campaign in an attempt to oust democratically-elected KMT politicians (who are more on the pro-China side) as obvious retaliation for losing control of Taiwan's legislature to them. This was essentially an attempt to overturn election results when they couldn't win through normal election procedures disguised as civic activism to supposedly "save Taiwan's democracy from authoritarian overreach." However it backfired dramatically: not a single one of their XX recall votes was successful. Their comment now"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949134525872636234) 2025-07-26 15:47:38 UTC 340K followers, 83.6K engagements
"5.2% GDP growth is pretty impressive given that exports to the US dropped by XX% that quarter compared to the year before due to the tariffs. Shows once again that China really doesn't rely on exports to the US for its economy"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1945228667681972466) 2025-07-15 21:07:09 UTC 340K followers, 245.2K engagements
"I just read this WSJ article on why Europe's tech scene is so much smaller than the US's and China's. I'm afraid that like most articles on this topic it largely misses the mark. Which in itself illustrates a key reason why Europe is lagging behind: when you fail to understand the root causes of an issue you have zero chance to solve it. What makes me competent to speak on this topic Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s I founded and led HouseTrip which at the time was one of Europe's top startups. We were the first historical startup in which all top X VC investors in Europe invested. So I"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1925029185052917791) 2025-05-21 03:21:37 UTC 340K followers, 820.2K engagements
"This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy. Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers the main agency advising Biden on economic policy"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1786272981058220187) 2024-05-03 05:54:00 UTC 339.9K followers, 15.4M engagements
"When you take actions that obviously cede ground to your competitor there are X possible explanations for it: either you're making an error out of incompetence or you're cutting your losses in recognition that the game is unwinnable. Virtually all commentators - like here 👇- look at the US's recent actions on the global stage and assume the former: "they're so stupid don't they realize this will cause America's decline and accelerate China's rise" The Trump administration meanwhile is muddying the waters by framing this as a purge of "radical ideologues" house-cleaning DEI and "woke""
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947599893305909686) 2025-07-22 10:09:33 UTC 340K followers, 28K engagements
"China just approved yet another project of an unfathomable scale: a mega dam that will generate X times more power than the Three Gorges enough to meet the annual needs of over 300m people the equivalent of the entire US population. The project will cost an insane X trillion yuan (US$137 billion) to build and will be located on the Yarlung Tsangpo River inTibet autonomous region which carves out the deepest canyon on Earth"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1872086555944477138) 2024-12-26 01:06:31 UTC 339.2K followers, 933.7K engagements
"@LaniRefiti It absolutely painfully obvious that the far bigger geopolitical threat to Europe is the US"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949801321046876513) 2025-07-28 11:57:15 UTC 340K followers, 4180 engagements
"@Troy_PT1 No it isn't read the BBC article"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949581728508682724) 2025-07-27 21:24:40 UTC 340K followers, 85.3K engagements
"This might be the most remarkable geopolitical document I've seen come out of a major European institution so far this century. Frances Parliament has just produced an extraordinary 153-page report that calls for nothing less than a complete strategic realignment of Europe. The document systematically dismantles the EU's current geopolitical positioning - "vassalized" to the U.S. in the report's words - as a catastrophic failure that has led to the EU seeing "its influence diminish and its interests poorly protected." The report details XX recommendations from the "creation of a common world"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1943599430227357732) 2025-07-11 09:13:09 UTC 340K followers, 631.6K engagements
"This is yet another move that doesn't make any sense whatsoever from an economic or strategic perspective. As per the FT article the EDA firms that will now be banned from selling to China - Synopsys Cadence Design Systems and Siemens EDA - have an XX% market share there and their revenue in the Chinese market account for between XX% and XX% of their global sales. At the same time there are some domestic Chinese companies in this sector like Huada Empyrean Software (HES). This is essentially saying "let's take the XX% market share our companies have in this sector and hand it over to Chinese"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1927901624586096923) 2025-05-29 01:35:40 UTC 339.3K followers, 62.4K engagements
"That's probably one of least known yet coolest facts about China: in almost all large cities (that I've seen) people swim or fish in the rivers. This is Liangma river in Beijing 👇"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1944282827123790019) 2025-07-13 06:28:43 UTC 339.1K followers, 103K engagements
"Almost every day now I see a massively viral tweet with a quote Xi never said and would never say: top Chinese leaders express themselves in a very particular language and would never be so direct and insulting. People wishing this was real should be careful what they wish for: it's already bad enough that we have one great power whose leadership keeps making unhinged public rants. And China is winning for the very reason that it remains diplomatically disciplined. When you spread these fake quotes you actually undermine this"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1945789214605643788) 2025-07-17 10:14:34 UTC 340K followers, 287.7K engagements
"Congrats @guardian this is easily one of the most dishonest articles I've read in a long time just pure ideological propaganda. In short the article's main thesis is that climate change is a "democracy" vs "autocracies" issue whereby virtuous "democracies" are struggling valiantly against climate change while evil "autocracies" are the primary obstacle to progress. And the central question being: how can we the good guys force these bad "autocracies" to behave responsibly on climate As the article puts it "democracies" apparently have attributes like popular pressure and transparency that"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1946131640671199482) 2025-07-18 08:55:15 UTC 340K followers, 96.1K engagements
"This is easily one of the most thought-provoking analyses I've seen this year. Adam Tooze the famous Columbia University professor recently made two fascinating presentations (one at the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing and one with the Sinica podcast) arguing that we are living through the most consequential shift in human civilization since the Industrial Revolution. He argues that China hasn't just risen; it has fundamentally rewritten the rules of how modern societies develop and transform. In his words: China isn't just sort of an analytical problem. It is THE analytical"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949438710224753134) 2025-07-27 11:56:21 UTC 340K followers, 154.9K engagements
"Thinking about it ironically maybe the biggest victims of the Trump tariffs may end up being American companies. Take Apple for instance. These guys have spent decades building incredibly complex global supply chains that span dozens of countries. They can't just flip a switch and move everything back to America. Their supply network represents tens of billions in investment thousands of supplier relationships and logistics systems perfected over decades. Dismantling this overnight is impossible and building a comparable domestic alternative - which is the stated goal of the Trump tariffs -"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1907827106337452168) 2025-04-03 16:06:42 UTC 339.9K followers, 205.6K engagements
"@ethicalzac I'd argue that Trump is at least reasonable enough to realize he needs to retreat (although he does it in a chaotic and stunningly incompetent fashion) and that Europe is pretty powerless geopolitically at this stage and therefore largely inconsequential"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1944259859308020183) 2025-07-13 04:57:27 UTC 340K followers, 1192 engagements
"At least some EU leaders are seeing it for what it is. France's Prime Minister: "It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples gathered to affirm their values and defend their interests resolves to submission." Now the question is: talk is talk but what is he going to do about it"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949806722324877547) 2025-07-28 12:18:42 UTC 340K followers, 39.3K engagements
"Wow game changer. Given that they seem to announce a new "alternative to the BRI" at just about all international summits 😅 So far we've had B3W ("Build Back Better World") the PGII (Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment) the AAGC ("Asia-Africa Growth Corridor") the Blue Dot Network the Global Gateway initiative etc. Has any of those gained any momentum 🤔"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1700694182686544049) 2023-09-10 02:14:25 UTC 339.5K followers, 82.6K engagements
"Just to impress how insane the transfer of its citizens' wealth to the US that the EU committed to is: when you run the numbers even discounting tariffs we're talking $3000 - $4000 PER EU CITIZEN () sent to the US under this unequal treaty. In effect given that the average EU salary is approximately 2464 a month this mean that each EU citizen will need to work the equivalent of 1-2 months a year just to pay for this tribute. Here are the calculation: $XXX billion "investment" in the US + "hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" + $ XXX billion dollars of US LNG = $1.55"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949799803937853486) 2025-07-28 11:51:13 UTC 340K followers, 65.5K engagements
"Wow looks like Xi was extremely straightforward during his meeting with Biden probably the most he's ever officially been in a meeting with a US president. According to the Chinese readout here's what he told Biden were the X "lessons of the past X years that need to be remembered": 1) "There must be correct strategic understanding. The 'Thucydides Trap' is not historical destiny a 'new Cold War' cannot and should not be fought containment of China is unwise undesirable and will not succeed." 2) "Words must be trustworthy and actions must be fruitful. A person cannot stand without"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1858019192370507904) 2024-11-17 05:27:50 UTC 339.6K followers, 717.9K engagements
"This might be one of the most insane reports ever produced by a U.S. Think Tank and thats saying something. The Hudson Institute just published a 128-page blueprint titled China after Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China edited by Miles Yu (director of the Institutes China Center) which provides detailed operational plans for inducing Chinese regime collapse followed by detailed protocols for U.S. post-collapse management including military occupation and the installation of a political and cultural system vassalized to the U.S. I genuinely dont know whether I should laugh or cry. Cry at"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947690222101402049) 2025-07-22 16:08:29 UTC 340K followers, 215.5K engagements
"Even the choir is starting to stop singing and it sung throughout everything that happened so far. Which tells you how catastrophically horrendous the situation is in Gaza"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1948650057139458315) 2025-07-25 07:42:32 UTC 340K followers, 41.6K engagements
"Remember this This was April 9th the day of the announcement of the 90-day pause for "liberation day" tariffs and Trump was saying that countries were "dying to make a deal" and would do anything for it "kissing his ass" to make deals. Basically the narrative was that countries were so desperate to avoid the tariffs that deals would be easy. We're now July 7th the eve - literally - of the 90-day deadline. So where are we 1) Not a single actual trade "deal" was achieved. The US has reached X "framework" agreements with respectively China the UK and Vietnam but even with those the US wasn't"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1942081421151252789) 2025-07-07 04:41:07 UTC 340K followers, 126.2K engagements
"Trump blinked first. Below the full list of the items that are now exempt from tariffs XX categories of products in total organized by HS code (sourced from here: - 8471: Automatic data processing machines and units thereof (e.g. computers such as laptops desktops and servers) - 8473.30: Parts and accessories for automatic data processing machines and their units (e.g. computer components and peripheral parts) - 8486: Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of semiconductor devices or electronic integrated circuits - 8517.13.00 Smartphones and other telecommunication apparatus for cellular"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1911068764067750066) 2025-04-12 14:47:53 UTC 339.2K followers, 326.9K engagements
"@TweetCat666 Weakness and (extremely) poor strategic thinking"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949579335054115297) 2025-07-27 21:15:09 UTC 340K followers, 81.4K engagements
"French journalist: "Disturbing to see a New York Times journalist burst into my kitchen at X AM to make himself scrambled eggs then kiss my wife before rushing off to work but well it's provided for in the agreement signed by von der Leyen. Everyone wins." 😅"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949828745352695958) 2025-07-28 13:46:13 UTC 340K followers, 18.7K engagements
"Wow XX countries - including China () - are meeting in Bogota this coming week to declare concrete measures against Israels violations of international law. The states due to take part in the summit include Algeria Bangladesh Bolivia Brazil Chile China Colombia Cuba Djibouti Honduras Indonesia Ireland Lebanon Malaysia Namibia Nicaragua Oman Portugal Spain Qatar Senegal South Africa Turkey Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Uruguay and Palestine. Src:"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1944516124718297193) 2025-07-13 21:55:46 UTC 340K followers, 804.1K engagements
"Just watched this Chinese movie called "successor" in the plane and I have to say one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. It's the story of billionaire parents who grew up poor (like most people of their generation in China) and don't want their second child to become spoiled so they decide to set up a "Truman show"-like environnement where he is raised in the same poor conditions they themselves grew up in. Some scenes are truly hilarious like when the boy unexpectedly finds himself in his parents' real mansion forcing them to quickly swap outfits with their staff so the"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1945035006851911924) 2025-07-15 08:17:37 UTC 340K followers, 315.5K engagements
"I had an AI research this and there has never been a single documented case of a foreigner detained at the border in China for negative content about China. In fact I broadened the search and contrary to popular belief I couldn't find a single documented case of a foreign tourist or student ever being detained in China over their speech or over content they posted or possessed. By contrast I've seen dozens of cases such as this one 👇 in the U.S. in the past few weeks alone. You draw your own conclusions"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1937720341952102414) 2025-06-25 03:51:45 UTC 339.9K followers, 130.6K engagements
"I have to say there's something immensely ironic about the Dalai Lama arguing his reincarnation should be determined by a tax-exempt Swiss foundation incorporated in Zurich while Beijing insists on maintaining the traditional centuries-old Golden Urn selection process. And the even bigger irony is that everyone will doubtlessly denounce China for "destroying Tibetan traditions and culture" for doing so"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1940574901901185080) 2025-07-03 00:54:45 UTC 340K followers, 334.8K engagements
"This absolutely stunning chart comparison by the NYT might prove to be the most important geopolitical visualization of the 21st century. The two major superpowers are each cornering a competing energy platform. China bets everything on clean energy the US on fossil fuels. It's incredibly rare probably even unprecedented in history to see X superpowers making completely opposite trillion-dollar bets on the underlying technology that literally powers the world. Let's see how it plays out. One interesting related statistic: XX% of the Global South's new energy investments go to clean tech so"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1940310878307655965) 2025-07-02 07:25:37 UTC 340K followers, 524.9K engagements
"We're definitely witnessing quite the tone shift from Australia with regards to China if one looks at PM Albanese's tweets over the past few days. He says that "free and open trade is good for both Australia and China" an obvious coded criticism of American policies around trade: quite ironically being "free and open" is now siding with Beijing over Washington. He emphasizes several times the importance of stability in the relationship with China again probably a reference to Trump's characteristic instability and also likely a jab at his predecessor's confrontational approach to China."
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1945567240189088003) 2025-07-16 19:32:31 UTC 340K followers, 131.2K engagements
"It is dying as an empire. In fact I'd even argue it's already largely dead they don't and can't even have regional hegemony in their own hemisphere anymore if you look for instance at the recent moves back and forth with Brazil. The Republic the US will of course remain as a major great power. I didn't suggest they are harmless not sure where I did"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947752437005111661) 2025-07-22 20:15:43 UTC 340K followers, 5440 engagements
"That's a key point by Luke 👇 It's an implicit admission by Trump that they have lost the Western hemisphere: if you treat the largest other country in your own hemisphere like a hostile adversary by definition it implies that you believe that the traditional "Monroe doctrine" US-led hemispheric order has already collapsed"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1943194343650791796) 2025-07-10 06:23:28 UTC 339.2K followers, 60.8K engagements
"@dlyngaas That is in fact *lack* of security since it caused the Ukraine war"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949579614256574469) 2025-07-27 21:16:16 UTC 340K followers, 57.3K engagements
"Easily the stupidest and most disgusting article of the month. I read it and the article is actually insulting beyond words to China as his central argument is that the "Rape of Nanking. echoes almost uncannily the horrors that the Jewish peopleand especially Israeli womenendured on October 7" and that this should create a moral bond. When (it doesn't even need to be said) it's painfully obvious that the more correct comparison for the Rape of Nanking is what Israel is doing in Gaza. Not only due to the scale of it (as a reminder 300000 civilians and POWs were massacred by Japan in Nanjing)"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949189159765045302) 2025-07-26 19:24:44 UTC 340K followers, 176.9K engagements
"This is pretty insane. The US just withdrew from UNESCO because according to the official explanation on the State Dept website of "UNESCOs decision to admit the 'State of Palestine' as a Member" and because of its "outsized focus on the UNs Sustainable Development Goals." They write that neither are "in the national interest of the United States." At least it has the merit of being pretty clear: the US is officially opposed to Palestinians' existence and the sustainable development of the world which it says do not make America "stronger." But what's also pretty clear is that if the world"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947920095704953305) 2025-07-23 07:21:56 UTC 340K followers, 133.7K engagements
"Interestingly on our drive down from Paris today we had dinner in Lyon and we witnessed a pro-Palestine protest in the city center. Good to see at least some people care around here"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1948128631634497944) 2025-07-23 21:10:34 UTC 340K followers, 21.9K engagements
"Someone was asking me in the comments here 👇 if I knew why anyone would agree to such an unequal treaty. I replied "weakness and (extremely) poor strategic thinking." The FT just published a (very good) article on the background of the "deal" and that's exactly what it was: - One diplomat is quoted as lamenting that the EU "didnt join others in standing up to Trump. Those who dont hang together get hanged separately." - A former Commission official says: "with the benefit of hindsight the EU would have been better off answering the US vigorously in April in a one-two combo with Chinas"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1949796453364195765) 2025-07-28 11:37:54 UTC 340K followers, 38.8K engagements
"Perfect example of what I wrote last week: the "China rose thanks to us" is the new coping mechanism to reconcile China's rise and American exceptionalism - "we didn't lose we just gave it all away." Setting aside the fact that this is zero-sum thinking that is wrong by definition - the world isn't black and white where one's "win" means another's "loss" - even within that framework this is just sore loser mentality: obviously ridiculous to claim that China which pulled off the fastest rise in human history much faster than the US's own rise did so with no merit of its own. If anything Deng"
 [@RnaudBertrand](/creator/x/RnaudBertrand) on [X](/post/tweet/1947361295801393433) 2025-07-21 18:21:27 UTC 340K followers, 95.1K engagements
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"The funniest part of this is that Wan Hai is a Taiwanese shipping company which goes to show they're starting to understand that acknowledging that Taiwan is part of China does come with its advantages 😏"
@RnaudBertrand on X 2025-06-23 04:34:16 UTC 339.7K followers, 77.4K engagements
"Ha yes the extraordinarily complex science of early-stage investing where you need to a) look at startup pitches b) decide if you give them money. How could the Chinese have possibly cracked that code without American help 🤦 After IP theft this "we taught the Chinese everything" is the new coping mechanism to reconcile China's rise and American exceptionalism - "we didn't lose we were just super generous and gave it all away." Because we all know that American capitalists are famously all about selflessness and altruism" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-16 09:25:28 UTC 340K followers, 126.9K engagements
"This is beyond shameful and a terrifying sign. Albanese is as close to a political saint as we're likely to see and watching her be persecuted for her very virtues reveals just how morally collapsed the West has become. She literally personifies the highest ideals of public service: profound integrity intelligence graceful eloquence and an almost sacred commitment to the voiceless and defenseless. The fact that we're in an era where we persecute figures like her who advocate for murdered children and civilians in order to protect (and keep arming) their killers proves we've abandoned any" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-10 07:29:37 UTC 339.3K followers, 428.8K engagements
"I'm an extremely fast eater myself (I've literally won speed-eating contests) and since the eating style in China is to all share dishes my wife's common saying is: "since I'm married with Arnaud if I don't eat fast I don't eat" 😅" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-20 19:00:18 UTC 340K followers, 49.8K engagements
"It's done: China just launched the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam project It'll be by far the worlds largest hydroelectric facility generating X times more electricity than the Three Gorges dam XXX billion kilowatt-hours. This dam project alone could power almost a quarter (21.6%) of all US households since the average U.S. household consumes about 10500 kilowatthours (kWh) of electricity per year and there are XXX million households in the US It could also power the entirety of France and Italy COMBINED since the average electricity consumption in France is X XXX kWh per person per" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-20 08:47:45 UTC 340K followers, 324.7K engagements
"Wow I never thought he would do it: Macron announces France will recognize the state of Palestine in September at the General Assembly of the UN. Credit when credit is due: an extremely rare good move by Macron. Way too late but better late than never" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-24 19:25:47 UTC 340K followers, 151K engagements
"Back in my childhood home in Provence like every summer. And now with my daughters who at least for a few weeks a year get to live French countryside style the way their father grew up. Every year when I come back the house has been invaded by vegetation so I end up spending a significant part of my holidays just cutting the growth all to redo it all over again the year after 😅 With my daughters reliving my childhood and me cutting the same vegetation year after year it probably makes the cycles of nature the major theme of this house. Which is what a childhood home is all about: a place" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-23 20:53:46 UTC 340K followers, 134.4K engagements
"A reminder that that's the way the EU was sold to us: This is a 1987 ad by France's foreign ministry with the message that the EU will enable us to be stronger and to better stand up to the US. As is now painfully obvious the exact opposite happened: it proved an instrument of collective weakness and institutionalized vassalization. The level of deception is insane when you think about it" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 15:10:06 UTC 340K followers, 14K engagements
"As a big river swimming fan and being in Paris today I had to try it: swimming in the Seine river which is now possible since the 5th of July. Honestly pretty cool experience in all meanings of the word since the water is a refreshing 23C. They have X sites and we tried the "Grenelle" one very close to the Eiffel tower. The water quality is frankly not bad I saw many fishes in the water and it feels quite clean I even put my head under the water as you can see on the video" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-18 12:38:24 UTC 340K followers, 52.3K engagements
"Fascinatingly part of the plan as per China's Eastern Data Western Computing initiative might be AI 👇 It's not only that the dam project will generate immense amounts of electricity that can be used for computing but also the fact that it's located in naturally cold Tibet with close to freezing water temperature - perfect to cool down data centers for free. As Keji Mao - who worked as a Research Fellow at the powerful NDRC (the top organization for China's economic planning and policymaking) - puts it: "China will transform industrial capacity into electricity electricity into computational" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-20 09:08:21 UTC 340K followers, 55.4K engagements
"This is easily the best graphs I've seen of who actually walks the talk in clean energy. China is by far the biggest investor in clean energy on the planet with nearly $700bn invested in 2024 3.7x what it invested in fossil fuels. North America on the other hand is by far the biggest investor in fossil fuels (about twice more than the Middle-East) and invest less than half what China does in clean energy" @RnaudBertrand on X 2024-06-07 05:21:03 UTC 340K followers, 82.4K engagements
"This is a funny and very revealing exchange: Filipino President Marcos undoubtedly the most committed US vassal in Asia doubles down on his commitment to the US in front of Trump saying "there's no need to balance the relationship between the US and China" and that his "strongest partner has always been the US." Trump immediately rebukes him saying he "doesn't mind if Marcos gets along with China because we're getting along with China very well" and telling Marcos that getting along with China is "doing what's right for his country" would "make the Philippines great again" and "wouldn't" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-26 12:36:33 UTC 340K followers, 94.4K engagements
"De Gaulle once said: "You can't rely on what's soft only on what's solid." Trump with this is not only extracting Europe's wealth which will make it even "softer" than it already is but it will also breed resentment against the US for generations. Not sure that's worth the short-term profit" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-27 21:20:18 UTC 340K followers, 245.5K engagements
"This is fascinating: China is virtually unique in the Islamic world for having an established centuries-old tradition of female imams (n ahong - ) in women-only mosques (known as nsi literally "womens temple"). In these mosques the female imams lead women-only prayers usually standing shoulder to shoulder with the other women (as opposed to in front for male imams). They also teach women and girls how to recite the Quran basic Islamic doctrine and offer guidance on daily life from a religious perspective. The origins of this tradition date to the late Ming and early Qing period (17th18th" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-24 12:23:58 UTC 340K followers, 157.7K engagements
"Or even the French Parliament which says in a new report that Europe needs to break free from its subordination to the US and instead achieve strategic autonomy by partnering with China" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-11 15:50:56 UTC 339.8K followers, 24.4K engagements
"If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth) they should be beyond appalled by this "deal": It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits The "deal" is: - The EU now gets charged XX% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU - The EU agrees to invest $XXX billion in the US for no other obvious reason than pleasing "daddy" - The EU will "purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" - The EU" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-27 21:10:12 UTC 340K followers, 2.2M engagements
"This is beyond parody: VDL says that US LNG gas is "more affordable and better" than Russian gas in order to justify the unequal treaty she just signed Europe for in which - among other concessions - she commits to buy $XXX billion of US LNG over the next X years. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can understand that gas that comes directly from your next-door neighbor via pipeline is by definition much cheaper than gas that has to be liquefied shipped thousands of miles across the Atlantic in specialized tankers and then regasified in Europe. What you have here is a perfect illustration" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 10:53:59 UTC 340K followers, 155.4K engagements
"There's no overstating how extraordinary this is. The West has now lost political support from the whole of Asia even Japan and South Korea" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-06-23 12:33:45 UTC 340K followers, 1.8M engagements
"@M_gh_nyc They defend it by. causing war Interesting concept of security" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-27 21:22:32 UTC 340K followers, 54.8K engagements
"Just to impress how insane the transfer of its citizens' wealth to the US that the EU committed to is: when you run the numbers even discounting tariffs we're talking $3000 - $4000 PER EU CITIZEN () sent to the US under this unequal treaty. In effect given that the average EU salary is approximately 2464 a month this mean that each EU citizen will need to work the equivalent of 1-2 months just to pay for this tribute. Here are the calculation: $XXX billion "investment" in the US + "hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" + $ XXX billion dollars of US LNG = $1.55" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 12:26:22 UTC 340K followers, 93.7K engagements
"@fairer4scoring @thinking_panda Someone is obviously unfamiliar with the North China phenotype 😅" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-13 10:07:10 UTC 339.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Andr Rieu is what Americans who don't know European culture actually think it is it's like a fake Disney version of it. This 👇 is genuine European culture: we're in Avignon at the theater festival we just watched an absolutely brilliant play (the actor Jean-Baptiste Darosey pictured with us is truly extraordinary) and we're now eating cheese sitting on a public bench on a beautiful square" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-25 12:08:58 UTC 340K followers, 30.3K engagements
"AFP reports that its reporters (one text freelancer three photographers and six video freelancers) still on-site in Gaza are currently dying from hunger. They write: "Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we have lost journalists in conflicts we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks but none of us has the memory of having seen a collaborator die of hunger." _________________________ Translation of the full text: "AFP works with one text freelancer three photographers and six video freelancers in the Gaza Strip since the departure of its staff journalists during 2024. Along with a few" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-22 20:46:47 UTC 340K followers, 119.8K engagements
"You need to be a special kind of psychopath to think these images somehow reflect well on you: a large group of emaciated and obviously desperate civilians in a landscape of total desolation that you caused scrambling towards a rare aid truck while your soldiers have to be repeatedly instructed not to shoot them from afar which means it isn't the norm" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-22 10:31:19 UTC 340K followers, 326.6K engagements
"This is quite pathetic. Taiwan's pro-independence DPP party led an unprecedented recall campaign in an attempt to oust democratically-elected KMT politicians (who are more on the pro-China side) as obvious retaliation for losing control of Taiwan's legislature to them. This was essentially an attempt to overturn election results when they couldn't win through normal election procedures disguised as civic activism to supposedly "save Taiwan's democracy from authoritarian overreach." However it backfired dramatically: not a single one of their XX recall votes was successful. Their comment now" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-26 15:47:38 UTC 340K followers, 83.6K engagements
"5.2% GDP growth is pretty impressive given that exports to the US dropped by XX% that quarter compared to the year before due to the tariffs. Shows once again that China really doesn't rely on exports to the US for its economy" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-15 21:07:09 UTC 340K followers, 245.2K engagements
"I just read this WSJ article on why Europe's tech scene is so much smaller than the US's and China's. I'm afraid that like most articles on this topic it largely misses the mark. Which in itself illustrates a key reason why Europe is lagging behind: when you fail to understand the root causes of an issue you have zero chance to solve it. What makes me competent to speak on this topic Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s I founded and led HouseTrip which at the time was one of Europe's top startups. We were the first historical startup in which all top X VC investors in Europe invested. So I" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-05-21 03:21:37 UTC 340K followers, 820.2K engagements
"This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy. Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers the main agency advising Biden on economic policy" @RnaudBertrand on X 2024-05-03 05:54:00 UTC 339.9K followers, 15.4M engagements
"When you take actions that obviously cede ground to your competitor there are X possible explanations for it: either you're making an error out of incompetence or you're cutting your losses in recognition that the game is unwinnable. Virtually all commentators - like here 👇- look at the US's recent actions on the global stage and assume the former: "they're so stupid don't they realize this will cause America's decline and accelerate China's rise" The Trump administration meanwhile is muddying the waters by framing this as a purge of "radical ideologues" house-cleaning DEI and "woke"" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-22 10:09:33 UTC 340K followers, 28K engagements
"China just approved yet another project of an unfathomable scale: a mega dam that will generate X times more power than the Three Gorges enough to meet the annual needs of over 300m people the equivalent of the entire US population. The project will cost an insane X trillion yuan (US$137 billion) to build and will be located on the Yarlung Tsangpo River inTibet autonomous region which carves out the deepest canyon on Earth" @RnaudBertrand on X 2024-12-26 01:06:31 UTC 339.2K followers, 933.7K engagements
"@LaniRefiti It absolutely painfully obvious that the far bigger geopolitical threat to Europe is the US" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 11:57:15 UTC 340K followers, 4180 engagements
"@Troy_PT1 No it isn't read the BBC article" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-27 21:24:40 UTC 340K followers, 85.3K engagements
"This might be the most remarkable geopolitical document I've seen come out of a major European institution so far this century. Frances Parliament has just produced an extraordinary 153-page report that calls for nothing less than a complete strategic realignment of Europe. The document systematically dismantles the EU's current geopolitical positioning - "vassalized" to the U.S. in the report's words - as a catastrophic failure that has led to the EU seeing "its influence diminish and its interests poorly protected." The report details XX recommendations from the "creation of a common world" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-11 09:13:09 UTC 340K followers, 631.6K engagements
"This is yet another move that doesn't make any sense whatsoever from an economic or strategic perspective. As per the FT article the EDA firms that will now be banned from selling to China - Synopsys Cadence Design Systems and Siemens EDA - have an XX% market share there and their revenue in the Chinese market account for between XX% and XX% of their global sales. At the same time there are some domestic Chinese companies in this sector like Huada Empyrean Software (HES). This is essentially saying "let's take the XX% market share our companies have in this sector and hand it over to Chinese" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-05-29 01:35:40 UTC 339.3K followers, 62.4K engagements
"That's probably one of least known yet coolest facts about China: in almost all large cities (that I've seen) people swim or fish in the rivers. This is Liangma river in Beijing 👇" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-13 06:28:43 UTC 339.1K followers, 103K engagements
"Almost every day now I see a massively viral tweet with a quote Xi never said and would never say: top Chinese leaders express themselves in a very particular language and would never be so direct and insulting. People wishing this was real should be careful what they wish for: it's already bad enough that we have one great power whose leadership keeps making unhinged public rants. And China is winning for the very reason that it remains diplomatically disciplined. When you spread these fake quotes you actually undermine this" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-17 10:14:34 UTC 340K followers, 287.7K engagements
"Congrats @guardian this is easily one of the most dishonest articles I've read in a long time just pure ideological propaganda. In short the article's main thesis is that climate change is a "democracy" vs "autocracies" issue whereby virtuous "democracies" are struggling valiantly against climate change while evil "autocracies" are the primary obstacle to progress. And the central question being: how can we the good guys force these bad "autocracies" to behave responsibly on climate As the article puts it "democracies" apparently have attributes like popular pressure and transparency that" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-18 08:55:15 UTC 340K followers, 96.1K engagements
"This is easily one of the most thought-provoking analyses I've seen this year. Adam Tooze the famous Columbia University professor recently made two fascinating presentations (one at the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing and one with the Sinica podcast) arguing that we are living through the most consequential shift in human civilization since the Industrial Revolution. He argues that China hasn't just risen; it has fundamentally rewritten the rules of how modern societies develop and transform. In his words: China isn't just sort of an analytical problem. It is THE analytical" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-27 11:56:21 UTC 340K followers, 154.9K engagements
"Thinking about it ironically maybe the biggest victims of the Trump tariffs may end up being American companies. Take Apple for instance. These guys have spent decades building incredibly complex global supply chains that span dozens of countries. They can't just flip a switch and move everything back to America. Their supply network represents tens of billions in investment thousands of supplier relationships and logistics systems perfected over decades. Dismantling this overnight is impossible and building a comparable domestic alternative - which is the stated goal of the Trump tariffs -" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-04-03 16:06:42 UTC 339.9K followers, 205.6K engagements
"@ethicalzac I'd argue that Trump is at least reasonable enough to realize he needs to retreat (although he does it in a chaotic and stunningly incompetent fashion) and that Europe is pretty powerless geopolitically at this stage and therefore largely inconsequential" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-13 04:57:27 UTC 340K followers, 1192 engagements
"At least some EU leaders are seeing it for what it is. France's Prime Minister: "It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples gathered to affirm their values and defend their interests resolves to submission." Now the question is: talk is talk but what is he going to do about it" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 12:18:42 UTC 340K followers, 39.3K engagements
"Wow game changer. Given that they seem to announce a new "alternative to the BRI" at just about all international summits 😅 So far we've had B3W ("Build Back Better World") the PGII (Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment) the AAGC ("Asia-Africa Growth Corridor") the Blue Dot Network the Global Gateway initiative etc. Has any of those gained any momentum 🤔" @RnaudBertrand on X 2023-09-10 02:14:25 UTC 339.5K followers, 82.6K engagements
"Just to impress how insane the transfer of its citizens' wealth to the US that the EU committed to is: when you run the numbers even discounting tariffs we're talking $3000 - $4000 PER EU CITIZEN () sent to the US under this unequal treaty. In effect given that the average EU salary is approximately 2464 a month this mean that each EU citizen will need to work the equivalent of 1-2 months a year just to pay for this tribute. Here are the calculation: $XXX billion "investment" in the US + "hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" + $ XXX billion dollars of US LNG = $1.55" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 11:51:13 UTC 340K followers, 65.5K engagements
"Wow looks like Xi was extremely straightforward during his meeting with Biden probably the most he's ever officially been in a meeting with a US president. According to the Chinese readout here's what he told Biden were the X "lessons of the past X years that need to be remembered": 1) "There must be correct strategic understanding. The 'Thucydides Trap' is not historical destiny a 'new Cold War' cannot and should not be fought containment of China is unwise undesirable and will not succeed." 2) "Words must be trustworthy and actions must be fruitful. A person cannot stand without" @RnaudBertrand on X 2024-11-17 05:27:50 UTC 339.6K followers, 717.9K engagements
"This might be one of the most insane reports ever produced by a U.S. Think Tank and thats saying something. The Hudson Institute just published a 128-page blueprint titled China after Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China edited by Miles Yu (director of the Institutes China Center) which provides detailed operational plans for inducing Chinese regime collapse followed by detailed protocols for U.S. post-collapse management including military occupation and the installation of a political and cultural system vassalized to the U.S. I genuinely dont know whether I should laugh or cry. Cry at" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-22 16:08:29 UTC 340K followers, 215.5K engagements
"Even the choir is starting to stop singing and it sung throughout everything that happened so far. Which tells you how catastrophically horrendous the situation is in Gaza" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-25 07:42:32 UTC 340K followers, 41.6K engagements
"Remember this This was April 9th the day of the announcement of the 90-day pause for "liberation day" tariffs and Trump was saying that countries were "dying to make a deal" and would do anything for it "kissing his ass" to make deals. Basically the narrative was that countries were so desperate to avoid the tariffs that deals would be easy. We're now July 7th the eve - literally - of the 90-day deadline. So where are we 1) Not a single actual trade "deal" was achieved. The US has reached X "framework" agreements with respectively China the UK and Vietnam but even with those the US wasn't" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-07 04:41:07 UTC 340K followers, 126.2K engagements
"Trump blinked first. Below the full list of the items that are now exempt from tariffs XX categories of products in total organized by HS code (sourced from here: - 8471: Automatic data processing machines and units thereof (e.g. computers such as laptops desktops and servers) - 8473.30: Parts and accessories for automatic data processing machines and their units (e.g. computer components and peripheral parts) - 8486: Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of semiconductor devices or electronic integrated circuits - 8517.13.00 Smartphones and other telecommunication apparatus for cellular" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-04-12 14:47:53 UTC 339.2K followers, 326.9K engagements
"@TweetCat666 Weakness and (extremely) poor strategic thinking" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-27 21:15:09 UTC 340K followers, 81.4K engagements
"French journalist: "Disturbing to see a New York Times journalist burst into my kitchen at X AM to make himself scrambled eggs then kiss my wife before rushing off to work but well it's provided for in the agreement signed by von der Leyen. Everyone wins." 😅" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 13:46:13 UTC 340K followers, 18.7K engagements
"Wow XX countries - including China () - are meeting in Bogota this coming week to declare concrete measures against Israels violations of international law. The states due to take part in the summit include Algeria Bangladesh Bolivia Brazil Chile China Colombia Cuba Djibouti Honduras Indonesia Ireland Lebanon Malaysia Namibia Nicaragua Oman Portugal Spain Qatar Senegal South Africa Turkey Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Uruguay and Palestine. Src:" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-13 21:55:46 UTC 340K followers, 804.1K engagements
"Just watched this Chinese movie called "successor" in the plane and I have to say one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. It's the story of billionaire parents who grew up poor (like most people of their generation in China) and don't want their second child to become spoiled so they decide to set up a "Truman show"-like environnement where he is raised in the same poor conditions they themselves grew up in. Some scenes are truly hilarious like when the boy unexpectedly finds himself in his parents' real mansion forcing them to quickly swap outfits with their staff so the" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-15 08:17:37 UTC 340K followers, 315.5K engagements
"I had an AI research this and there has never been a single documented case of a foreigner detained at the border in China for negative content about China. In fact I broadened the search and contrary to popular belief I couldn't find a single documented case of a foreign tourist or student ever being detained in China over their speech or over content they posted or possessed. By contrast I've seen dozens of cases such as this one 👇 in the U.S. in the past few weeks alone. You draw your own conclusions" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-06-25 03:51:45 UTC 339.9K followers, 130.6K engagements
"I have to say there's something immensely ironic about the Dalai Lama arguing his reincarnation should be determined by a tax-exempt Swiss foundation incorporated in Zurich while Beijing insists on maintaining the traditional centuries-old Golden Urn selection process. And the even bigger irony is that everyone will doubtlessly denounce China for "destroying Tibetan traditions and culture" for doing so" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-03 00:54:45 UTC 340K followers, 334.8K engagements
"This absolutely stunning chart comparison by the NYT might prove to be the most important geopolitical visualization of the 21st century. The two major superpowers are each cornering a competing energy platform. China bets everything on clean energy the US on fossil fuels. It's incredibly rare probably even unprecedented in history to see X superpowers making completely opposite trillion-dollar bets on the underlying technology that literally powers the world. Let's see how it plays out. One interesting related statistic: XX% of the Global South's new energy investments go to clean tech so" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-02 07:25:37 UTC 340K followers, 524.9K engagements
"We're definitely witnessing quite the tone shift from Australia with regards to China if one looks at PM Albanese's tweets over the past few days. He says that "free and open trade is good for both Australia and China" an obvious coded criticism of American policies around trade: quite ironically being "free and open" is now siding with Beijing over Washington. He emphasizes several times the importance of stability in the relationship with China again probably a reference to Trump's characteristic instability and also likely a jab at his predecessor's confrontational approach to China." @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-16 19:32:31 UTC 340K followers, 131.2K engagements
"It is dying as an empire. In fact I'd even argue it's already largely dead they don't and can't even have regional hegemony in their own hemisphere anymore if you look for instance at the recent moves back and forth with Brazil. The Republic the US will of course remain as a major great power. I didn't suggest they are harmless not sure where I did" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-22 20:15:43 UTC 340K followers, 5440 engagements
"That's a key point by Luke 👇 It's an implicit admission by Trump that they have lost the Western hemisphere: if you treat the largest other country in your own hemisphere like a hostile adversary by definition it implies that you believe that the traditional "Monroe doctrine" US-led hemispheric order has already collapsed" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-10 06:23:28 UTC 339.2K followers, 60.8K engagements
"@dlyngaas That is in fact lack of security since it caused the Ukraine war" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-27 21:16:16 UTC 340K followers, 57.3K engagements
"Easily the stupidest and most disgusting article of the month. I read it and the article is actually insulting beyond words to China as his central argument is that the "Rape of Nanking. echoes almost uncannily the horrors that the Jewish peopleand especially Israeli womenendured on October 7" and that this should create a moral bond. When (it doesn't even need to be said) it's painfully obvious that the more correct comparison for the Rape of Nanking is what Israel is doing in Gaza. Not only due to the scale of it (as a reminder 300000 civilians and POWs were massacred by Japan in Nanjing)" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-26 19:24:44 UTC 340K followers, 176.9K engagements
"This is pretty insane. The US just withdrew from UNESCO because according to the official explanation on the State Dept website of "UNESCOs decision to admit the 'State of Palestine' as a Member" and because of its "outsized focus on the UNs Sustainable Development Goals." They write that neither are "in the national interest of the United States." At least it has the merit of being pretty clear: the US is officially opposed to Palestinians' existence and the sustainable development of the world which it says do not make America "stronger." But what's also pretty clear is that if the world" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-23 07:21:56 UTC 340K followers, 133.7K engagements
"Interestingly on our drive down from Paris today we had dinner in Lyon and we witnessed a pro-Palestine protest in the city center. Good to see at least some people care around here" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-23 21:10:34 UTC 340K followers, 21.9K engagements
"Someone was asking me in the comments here 👇 if I knew why anyone would agree to such an unequal treaty. I replied "weakness and (extremely) poor strategic thinking." The FT just published a (very good) article on the background of the "deal" and that's exactly what it was: - One diplomat is quoted as lamenting that the EU "didnt join others in standing up to Trump. Those who dont hang together get hanged separately." - A former Commission official says: "with the benefit of hindsight the EU would have been better off answering the US vigorously in April in a one-two combo with Chinas" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-28 11:37:54 UTC 340K followers, 38.8K engagements
"Perfect example of what I wrote last week: the "China rose thanks to us" is the new coping mechanism to reconcile China's rise and American exceptionalism - "we didn't lose we just gave it all away." Setting aside the fact that this is zero-sum thinking that is wrong by definition - the world isn't black and white where one's "win" means another's "loss" - even within that framework this is just sore loser mentality: obviously ridiculous to claim that China which pulled off the fastest rise in human history much faster than the US's own rise did so with no merit of its own. If anything Deng" @RnaudBertrand on X 2025-07-21 18:21:27 UTC 340K followers, 95.1K engagements