("To build Pakistan’s largest potato tissue culture lab, various #Chinese agricultural enterprises are involved for its practical implementation,” he added. “The most common potato diseases in #Pakistan include early blight, stem rot and so on.
According to activists and residents, nine of New Delhi's #homelessShelters as well as several slum clusters housing thousands of families in the heart of the city, were razed as part of a #beautification strategy ahead of the high-profile #G20 leaders summit coming up on Saturday and Sunday.
An interesting debate about imperialism, capitalism and why there's a move towards a multipolar world. Justin Podur and Sam Gindin discussed this with such civility. We need more grounded debates like this.
A beautiful introduction to the #Baltic: a sea whose name is a byword for cold in the UK is in fact a marvellous place to holiday, rich in history, culture, sports and beaches as well as #geopolitics as this piece in @TheEconomist makes clear..
In unprecedented move, report from a #UK legislative committee calls #Taiwan an "independent country". UK govt leadership still doesn't officially acknowledge Taiwan #independence.
#Somalia govt forces last week captured #ElBur, last district center in central #Galmudug region controlled by #AlShabaab, though they later retreated from other key towns in the area.
I want to talk about #Brics but I suspect I'll be attacked the moment I open my mouth because it isn't aligned with the current US narrative. 🙃
Better to talk about #CDramas on #mastodon. 😅
I may write a blog post of the notes I've made - I don't think I'm informed enough about #geopolitics to give a solid commentary, but the common topics I've seen around Brics:
An excellent 4-article series by @ft on The Rise of the Middle powers: “how the stand-off between #America and #China has ushered in a new era of opportunity for countries across the world
As I have said for year: #climatechange is #water change. Water or lack thereof is what impacts people the most, directly or indirectly. This is why being both a water scholar & a climate scholar makes me immediately wonder about histories & #geopolitics around water in all climate #disasters. #maui is an example.
#Geopolitics#5G#China#Ideologies: "This paper explores how infrastructural ideologies function as tools in geopolitical struggles for dependence and independence between world powers. Meese et al. (2020) suggest that controversies around 5G stem from infrastructural anxieties best examined in the framework of geopolitics. We build on this work by analysing the emerging infrastructural ideology and sociotechnical imaginaries (Jasanoff and Kim, 2015) of 5G in light of the changing global division of labour. Sociotechnical imaginaries refer to the vision of technologies themselves, while ideologies refer to the totality of social relations, translating the objective reality of material conditions to subjective lived experience (Bory, 2020). The Western imaginaries around 5G infrastructures reflect, deflect, translate and sublimate the infrastructural anxieties tied to the development and deployment of new network paradigms by China as an emerging hegemon. The controversial nature, contradictory content and fragmented presentation of 5G is a necessary part of living through the trauma of lost historical agency on the part of Western superpowers. We engaged in code ethnography (Rosa, 2022) of GSM, internet and 5G technologies, as well as participant observation in the main standard-development organisations of the internet and 5G. Our methodological assumption, taken from world systems theory (Wallerstein, 2004), is that the character and content of imaginaries and their underpinning ideologies creatively translate the position of actors in the global division of labour. This paper contributes to the understanding of the role of media infrastructures in geopolitical power tussles and straddles the fields of materialist media studies, science and technology studies and international relations."
Troops from Niger ousted the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, last week. One of the coup leaders had previously received training from the U.S. government, becoming the 11th coup in the region led by U.S.-trained officers since 2008.
It's pretty disturbing to realise that I will be automatically disliked because I hold a different view of #China. A post about my efforts in trying to find "balanced" information about the current US-China tensions and being exasperated by discussions around it, and how I feel the urge to self-censor lest I be labelled "pro-China". It has not been easy!
Niger Mutiny: Another U.S.-Trained Military Officer Led Coup (theintercept.com)
Troops from Niger ousted the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, last week. One of the coup leaders had previously received training from the U.S. government, becoming the 11th coup in the region led by U.S.-trained officers since 2008.