Ian Williams
Correspondent at Channel 4 News
Author of 'Vampire State. The rise and fall of the Chinese Economy'. Longtime foreign correspondent in Moscow, the Indo-Pacific and China @NBCNews @Channel4News
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4 weeks ago |
thespectator.com | Andy Palmer |Ian Williams |Jane Stannus |Gavin Mortimer
With all the insane news this week surrounding President Trump’s tariff and trade drama, only one non-political story was significant enough to break through the news cycle: a Texas-based company called Colossal Biosciences has bred three dire wolves and is currently keeping them in a secret 2,000-acre natural habitat somewhere in the United States. That’s right: dire wolves. An extinct species. A beast so mythical that we only really know of it from Game of Thrones.
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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Charles Lipson |Kate Andrews |Ian Williams
A recession now looks even more certain for the United States. Output has flattened. The chaotic implementation of Donald Trump’s tariff regime has left businesses bewildered. And consumers will soon be facing huge price rises. Of course, the US might well emerge in better shape at the end of it. The trouble is, President Trump has done nothing to prepare the voters for the pain ahead – and he will find a downturn very tough politically.
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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin
Charlie Brooker’s cautionary technological tales have now been running for well over a decade, and they are almost in danger of seeming old-fashioned. When Black Mirror began in 2011, Instagram was only a few months old, the iPhone was a new novelty just coming into the mainstream, and Elon Musk was best known for being CEO of Tesla. Now, virtually everything in the world has changed, and Big Tech plays roles in our lives that the ever-cynical Brooker could barely have imagined.
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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Dot Wordsworth |Freddy Gray |Ian Williams
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social account yesterday morning. With trillions of dollars wiped off stock market value since his tariff announcements last week, this appeared to be an attempt to manufacture a silver lining. It also happened to be a literal statement.
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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin |Peter Pomerantsev
China hit back on Wednesday with an additional 50 percent tariff on US imports, matching the extra levy imposed overnight by Donald Trump on Chinese goods. That made the running totals 104 percent so far from Washington, vs 84 percent from Beijing, prompting one analyst to compare them to two racing cars driving straight at each other in a high stakes game of chicken.
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Xi is endorsing Putin’s false ‘nazi’ narrative about the Ukraine war and his very presence at a ‘victory day’ parade is a fraud - the CCP played little part in allied victory in WWII #china #moscow #russia #victoryday #ukraine https://t.co/3bSDyllXG0
How wary should we be of Chinese-made electric vehicles? They are giant pieces of spyware - perfect for espionage, surveillance and sabotage. As I write in The Daily Mail , a good place to start is the classic Michael Caine movie, 'The Italian Job' #China #EVs #espionage https://t.co/Vijz30RWrO
Somewhere in the bowels of the Foreign Office, the UK govt's much hyped 'audit' of China relations grinds on, but as I argue in @spectator it's rapidly becoming irrelevant, overtaken by events that scream for extreme caution towards #China https://t.co/sq1tL9W8TT
