Noah Barkin

1 month ago | nbarkin.substack.com | Noah Barkin

Starting off my life on Substack with some interesting news…I understand from multiple sources that China may be preparing to lift its sanctions on members of the European Parliament (MEPs) as early as next week. The sanctions were imposed in March 2021 in response to the EU’s decision to impose sanctions on Chinese entities for human rights violations in Xinjiang.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Noah Barkin

Noah Barkin is a senior adviser at Rhodium Group and a visiting senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, based in Berlin. Over the past months, the Trump administration has intervened in European elections, threatened to seize Greenland and imposed crushing tariffs on the European Union. Now it wants to talk with Europe about containing China.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Noah Barkin

9 hours agoThe classic kids’ game teaches a lesson about public health that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to learn. A sudden and mysterious outbreak of communicable disease began recently in my apartment building in Manhattan. Three 7-year-olds, a boy and two girls, were sharing the elevator one day with a …

2 months ago | ip-quarterly.com | Noah Barkin

The first months of US President Donald Trump’s second administration have unfolded like a horror movie for Europe. Just when it looks like the massacre might be over, the orange-tinted villain and his zombie minions rise up again and wreak more havoc. In the span of a few weeks, Trump and his team have shown they are prepared to throw Ukraine under the bus and, in the words of Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, embrace the “incredible opportunities” offered by Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Dec 11, 2024 | thewirechina.com | Noah Barkin

Germany is suffering from an acute case of China shock. After decades supplying a rising China with cars, machine tools and technological know-how — and reaping billions of euros in profits in the process — German companies are now struggling to compete with Chinese rivals that produce at lower cost, are more innovative, and have the backing of the powerful Chinese state.