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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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Ian Williams
For clues as to where US policy towards Beijing goes next, look beyond Donald Trump’s chaotic and erratic tariffs and focus instead on the small print of the US-UK draft trade deal. It has a clear message: that if you want to do business with Washington, keep China at bay. The agreement itself doesn’t quite put it that way. It doesn’t need to.
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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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A pleasure to join @LouisSykes100 on @TimesRadio Putin Files talking about the revelations that Russia is paranoid about #china spies. So much for the ‘no limits’ partnership https://t.co/5X7xYYpN7Q
This is very welcome, but why does it need the US government to tell the Starmer govt the blindingly obvious - that the proposed giant new Chinese embassy is a monumental security risk? #china #chinaembassy https://t.co/z8J7FLrTnr
RT @TheSpectator: "The policy of shaking up supply chains, keeping China out of the most sensitive, and curtailing its access to cutting-ed…
