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🚨New policy brief is out! I took a deep dive into China`s energy mix and tried to go beyond all the 'clean energy' hype.
Energy security remains the main focus of the Communist leadership. Reliance on fossils is a conscious, long-term feature of China`s future⚡️policy.
🇨🇳Delve into #China’s #energy mix & its global implications🌍from burning more #coal than anyone else to unsettling the #LNG market.
📚 Read our new publication: Evaluating China’s Energy Outlook - by @D_Lilkov - for key insight.
👉martenscentre.eu/publication…
#FocusFuture
The wake up call came years ago.
And European Energy policy, overtaken by climate concerns, allowed this to happen.
European Commission sounds the alarm (now !!!) about the number of oil refineries closing in the region over the last 20 years. "We need to counter this trend," says EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen. "This crisis is a wake-up call." Quite.
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Ha, the "radical democratist" Mao is responsible for the death of millions. Since this animal took over, the PRC has effectively fought war against its own people.
Funny how the majority of the people in China don`t even know why Mbappe is boycotted due to the online censorship.
毛泽东是中国最先的激进民主主义者，说毛泽东是独裁者真是死了妈。文化大革命通过推动群众运动来打倒官僚，进而逐步建构直接民主形式的政府，只不过受到历史条件的约束、毛泽东本人的犹豫而遭受失败。
毛泽东推行的1975年宪法中，公民具有大鸣大放大辩论、罢工自由的权力，同时政府进行两参一改三结合
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Dimitar Lilkov retweeted
Need a crumb of hope about Europe on a Saturday?
Belgium has gone from rapidly closing and destroying its entire nuclear fleet (half of its power before 2023) to quickly relicensing and returning a few of them to the grid.
PM @Bart_DeWever is trying to save as many as he can.
ALT A photo I took of Doel nuclear plant in February 2025, the day another one of its 4 reactors was closed.
België en @ENGIE_energie zijn erin geslaagd de kerncentrales Doel IV en Tihange III in een half jaar volledig te reviseren, alle veiligheidsprocedures te doorlopen en weer op te starten. Terwijl sluiting gepland was.
Dat is een applausje waard, vindt u niet?
#grafiekvandedag
I think we cannot even imagine how corrupt this political clan is.
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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The "People`s" Republic of China
WATCH: Britain’s ITN has released ~4 hours of previously sealed 1989 Tiananmen footage — filmed by the team that smuggled the tapes out of China.
The material, archived for ~35 years, includes a 2-hour crackdown compilation and 90 minutes of secretly filmed raw rushes from the days after, showing military trucks on Beijing streets, crowds, and the aftermath.
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Dimitar Lilkov retweeted
We firmly reject the Irish Presidency’s negotiating box for the next #EUBudget. It cuts defence as threats multiply, reduces investment in competitiveness as Europe loses ground globally, and leaves farmers and regions underfunded.
After three months, the Irish Presidency has delivered little progress, no meaningful new solutions and a weaker budget. It has reversed the European Commission’s efforts to fund Europe’s new priorities. Europe cannot take on greater responsibilities with fewer resources.
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ASML: "We are not selling anything in Europe at all. That is because Europe is not investing, and no chip factories are being built here". nltimes.nl/2026/09/22/asml-c…
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Dimitar Lilkov retweeted
Christian Leuprecht and @D_Lilkov: Carney’s incoherent climate policy is hurting our European allies, helping China, and holding Canada back
thehub.ca/2026/06/16/carneys…
