#China EV tariffs

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Global EV Battery Market Faces New Challenges Amid Tariff Uncertainties

The landscape of electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing is undergoing a seismic shift as global trade policies evolve. With the recent announcement of higher tariffs on Chinese exports by the United States, significant changes are expected in battery pricing, supply chain dynamics, and market strategies. These developments could create new opportunities for emerging markets such as India while also presenting hurdles for domestic manufacturers.

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Tesla contestă taxele UE pentru mașinile electrice produse în China

Tesla a anunțat că a depus o contestație la Curtea de Justiție a Uniunii Europene (CJUE) împotriva taxelor vamale impuse vehiculelor electrice fabricate în China. Prin această acțiune, Tesla se alătură unor producători auto de renume, inclusiv BMW, care contestă noile tarife impuse de Uniunea Europeană. Taxe vamale de până la 35.5% pentru mașinile electrice din China Uniunea Europeană a introdus…

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Video: Investing Ideas for the new US Administration

There are #opportunities for #Canadian #Investors in the context of the new #Trump #US #Administration. I look at #Tariffs, #International #Diversification, the #Energy Sector, including #wind, #EV targets, Refilling the #oil stockpile, and increasing #production. Opportunities in the #Banking Sector, #Cryptocurrencies, #Currency, #Healthcare and #China are also examined. The #CanadianMoneyTalk…

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BMW and Mercedes-Benz Struggle in China's EV Market

BMW and Mercedes-Benz, two giants of the automotive industry, are currently facing significant challenges in the Chinese market. This struggle can be traced back to various factors. These include increased competition from local brands. Additionally, changing consumer preferences and economic fluctuations contribute to the situation. Chinese consumers have shifted their focus towards electric…

[opencommunion]

"The story of  'John Doe 1' of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is tucked in a lawsuit filed five years ago against several U.S. tech companies, including Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle producer. In a country where the earth hides its treasures beneath its surface, those who chip away at its bounty pay an unfair price. As a pre-teen, his family could no longer afford to pay his $6 monthly school fee, leaving him with one option: a life working underground in a tunnel, digging for cobalt rocks.  But soon after he began working for roughly two U.S. dollars per day, the child was buried alive under the rubble of a collapsed mine tunnel. His body was never recovered. 

The nation, fractured by war, disease, and famine, has seen more than 6 million people die since the mid-1990s, making the conflict the deadliest since World War II. But, in recent years, the death and destruction have been aided by the growing number of electric vehicles humming down American streets. In 2022, the U.S., the world’s third-largest importer of cobalt, spent nearly $525 million on the mineral, much of which came from the Congo.

As America’s dependence on the Congo has grown, Black-led labor and environmental organizers here in the U.S. have worked to build a transnational solidarity movement. Activists also say that the inequities faced in the Congo relate to those that Black Americans experience. And thanks in part to social media, the desire to better understand what’s happening in the Congo has grown in the past 10 years. In some ways, the Black Lives Matter movement first took root in the Congo after the uprising in Ferguson in 2014, advocates say. And since the murder of George Floyd and the outrage over the Gaza war, there has been an uptick in Congolese and Black American groups working on solidarity campaigns.

Throughout it all, the inequities faced by Congolese people and Black Americans show how the supply chain highlights similar patterns of exploitation and disenfranchisement. ... While the American South has picked up about two-thirds of the electric vehicle production jobs, Black workers there are more likely to work in non-unionized warehouses, receiving less pay and protections. The White House has also failed to share data that definitively proves whether Black workers are receiving these jobs, rather than them just being placed near Black communities. 'Automakers are moving their EV manufacturing and operations to the South in hopes of exploiting low labor costs and making higher profits,' explained Yterenickia Bell, an at-large council member in Clarkston, Georgia, last year. While Georgia has been targeted for investment by the Biden administration, workers are 'refusing to stand idly by and let them repeat a cycle that harms Black communities and working families.'

... Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children. They are not only exposed to physical threats but environmental ones. Cobalt mining pollutes critical water sources, plus the air and land. It is linked to respiratory illnesses, food insecurity, and violence. Still, in March, a U.S. court ruled on the case, finding that American companies could not be held liable for child labor in the Congo, even as they helped intensify the prevalence. ... Recently, the push for mining in the Congo has reached new heights because of a rift in China-U.S. relations regarding EV production. Earlier this month, the Biden administration issued a 100% tariff on Chinese-produced EVs to deter their purchase in the U.S. Currently, China owns about 80% of the legal mines in the Congo, but tens of thousands of Congolese work in 'artisanal' mines outside these facilities, where there are no rules or regulations, and where the U.S. gets much of its cobalt imports.  'Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected,' wrote Siddharth Kara last year in the award-winning investigative book Cobalt Red: How The Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. 'It is a system of absolute exploitation for absolute profit.' While it is the world’s richest country in terms of wealth from natural resources, Congo is among the poorest in terms of life outcomes. Of the 201 countries recognized by the World Bank Group, it has the 191st lowest life expectancy."

[zvaigzdelasas]

Biden to Quadruple Tariffs on Chinese EVs - WSJ

The Biden administration is preparing to raise tariffs on clean-energy goods from China in the coming days, with the levy on Chinese electric vehicles set to roughly quadruple, according to people familiar with the matter.

Higher tariffs, which Biden administration officials are preparing to announce on Tuesday, will also hit critical minerals, solar goods and batteries sourced from China, according to the people. The decision comes at the end of a yearslong review of tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump on roughly $300 billion in goods from China.

10 May 24

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During a Tuesday appearance in New York City, Ford CEO Jim Farley focused on two big threats to U.S. auto manufacturers and their suppliers: Trump’s vow to withdraw support for electric vehicles and his enthusiasm for big, broad tariffs, especially against Canada and Mexico.

“Jobs will be at risk” if Trump ends the EV support, Farley said, according to an account in the Detroit News.

As for those tariffs, Farley said, they could “blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”

CEOs aren’t always correct, and they’re certainly not always looking out for the best interests of their workers. But the admonition from Farley, who was speaking at the Wolfe Research Auto, Auto Tech and Semiconductor Conference, echoes what labor unions and many analysts have been saying about the industry and how it will fare if Trump makes the changes he has promised.

Recent federal support for EVs has helped spark an explosion in factory construction for the vehicles and their component parts, in a region stretching from the upper Midwest to a new “battery belt” in the South. It also has fueled rising EV sales, allowing the “legacy” U.S. automakers like Ford and General Motors to make up some of the ground they’ve lost to competitors in China, where the government has spent more than two decades nurturing its own EV industry.

But government subsidies in the U.S. have largely come through the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping 2022 Democratic climate legislation President Joe Biden signed into law. And Trump is not a fan — of clean energy policies generally (he has famously called climate change a “hoax”) or of federal EV policies (which he says are forcing the industry to make unappealing, unprofitable cars).

[justinspoliticalcorner]

The Guardian:

Law-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have shocked the United States and the world. On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the “most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”, and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US’s role in the world.

[...]

The end of the postwar order

Trump’s first 100 days has been marked by arguably the biggest shake-up in US foreign policy since 1945. He has feuded with Nato and turned on Ukraine, slapped tariffs on US allies around the globe, ignored international institutions and publicly admired dictators from Vladimir Putin to El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. [...]

A new Monroe doctrine?

As Trump has retreated from Europe, he has increasingly thrown the US’s weight around the western hemisphere. He said Canada should become the 51st state, threatened to annex Greenland, and proposed in his inaugural speech that the US “take back” the Panama canal. Some have compared his foreign policy to that of James Monroe, the former president who in 1823 declared a US sphere of influence in North and South America. [...]

Tariffs and China

Trump’s haphazard imposition of tariffs has angered US allies from Europe to Asia, where longtime trade partners such as��Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have scrambled to try to negotiate new deals to protect their economies from severe shocks. China’s Xi Jinping has toured south-east Asia, seeking to promote Beijing as the world’s protector of rules-based trade and calling on countries to “jointly oppose unilateral bullying”. [...]

Defying court orders

In March, the Trump administration ignored an order from the US district judge James Boasberg to turn around a plane headed to El Salvador containing people alleged to be gang members. It was a staggering act of defiance.

Threatening judges

Trump and allies have threatened judges who have ruled against them. “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!,” Trump said in an 18 March post on Truth Social. Elon Musk, a top Trump adviser, has also called for impeaching judges and supported Republicans who champion doing so.

Attacking lawyers

Trump has used executive orders to punish law firms connected to rivals or that have taken on causes averse to his administration. Several firms have settled with Trump to avoid being punished. Others have successfully sued the administration. [...]

Musk ushered into government

On day one, Trump signed an executive order creating the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) – a novel initiative chaired by Elon Musk. In the weeks that followed, Doge staff, many of whom are former employees at Musk’s companies and lack government experience, embedded themselves in federal agencies large and small, directing sudden and disruptive cuts to programs and payrolls. [...]

Federal workers targeted

The Trump administration moved to dramatically shrink the federal workforce, first by proposing buyouts. About 75,000 employees opted to leave, as did thousands more in the weeks that followed. But the numbers were fewer than the White House hoped, so cabinet secretaries fired tens of thousands more, while Trump approved the termination of about 25,000 employees on their probationary periods. The supreme court refused to hear a challenge to the latter firings in April.

Agencies shuttered, perhaps illegally

Trump moved to dismantle USAID, which has administered Washington’s foreign aid agenda for more than six decades, and fold it into the state department. He also directed the education secretary, Linda McMahon, to oversee the closure of her department. The offensives against these and other agencies quickly wound up in the courts.

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Flooding the zone

Trump has been everywhere all the time, dominating the “attention economy” like no other public figure. He takes questions from reporters far more often than his predecessor Joe Biden. He posts frequently on his Truth Social platform. He has attended the Super Bowl, Ultimate Fighting Championship and other sporting events.

Sidelining the ‘lamestream’ media

The White House banned the Associated Press from events in the Oval Office and Air Force One over the news agency’s refusal to obey Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The AP sued over access to presidential events and won a court ruling, though it was unclear if and when the White House would put it into effect.

Platforming Maga media

The White House took over deciding which outlets are allowed to take part in the press pool, a group that acts as the eyes and ears of the media covering the president up close, and included more fringe outlets. Rightwing journalists also became more prominent at press briefings.

Trump increasingly relies on executive orders

Trump has signed 141 executive orders in his first 100 days, including 36 in his first week in office. His use of the presidential pen is unprecedented in modern US history. Below are the number of executive orders presidents signed in their first 100 days.

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‘Deep state’ purge

The reinstated “Schedule F” executive order has stripped tens of thousands of federal employees of civil service protections, allowing the administration to fire career officials deemed disloyal.

Pro-Palestinian targets

A week after the Columbia graduate and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil was detained in March, Trump signed an order called “Securing American Values” to target visa holders who have participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The order directs immigration agencies to authorize visa revocations of demonstrators linked to organizations accused of hate speech, and detain and expedite deportations for those involved in activity the administration deems antisemitic.

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Alien Enemies Act

The Trump administration used an 18th-century wartime law to deport scores of Venezuelans to El Salvador, where they are being held in a draconian mega-prison known as Cecot. Trump’s use of the law faces legal challenges. Onboard one of the deportation flights was a Maryland father with protected legal status mistakenly deported in what the administration called an “administrative error”. The supreme court has ordered the US to “facilitate” his return.

Free speech crackdown

In an extraordinary crackdown on free speech, the Trump administration has tracked down and detained international students involved in pro-Palestinian protests, among them Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate and lawful permanent resident. [...]

Protesters take to the streets

After a slower start than Trump’s first term, protests have erupted across the country, including in small towns in Republican areas, standing up against his overreach. Established groups have joined together with a decentralized protest movement around broad messages against oligarchy and dismantling democracy.

The first 100 days of the Orange Satan’s 2nd term has been nothing short of a calamity and a shitshow. Thankfully, certain Americans are fed up with crap and protesting the Evil 47 Regime bravely.

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HuffPost: Trump’s Horrific First 100 Days

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I guess to balance out my frequent Biden defense, a 100% tariff on EVs+ from China is some rank insane economic illiteracy. Like I get red baiting the voting base, but remember, they are also economically illiterate. They won't know if your policy is actually good or effective not, just propose the not-awful ones! "New industrial subsidies for EV production" yeah probably wasteful but w/e I get that, don't sabotage green energy developments for no reason.

Definitely one of the worst developments of the recent times is how much the protectionist turn is actually real, Biden & Trump both are true believers in it so it is much harder to shake.

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China is also a radicalising thing for the middle classes / petit bourgeoise that pushes them towards fascism

Reform and Trump promise to smash china to pieces either through tariffs or war (lol as if they'd win a war), but in reality British and US manufacturers, investors etc get their shite made in china

See all western car manufacturers who get their EVs made in china whilst giving it the big un about being anti china

[darkmaga-returns]

Tens of thousands of Volkswagen employees have halted production to protest proposed pay cuts. The German automaker has stated it will need to close three manufacturing plants due to rising labor expenses, material shortages, and, most importantly – the climate change agenda that has demonized fossil fuels.

Over 120,000 workers now face a 10% pay cut if they can manage to keep their jobs. The IG Metall union has warned that protests will be fierce. Volkswagen remains Germany’s top-selling car brand, composing 19% of the market share. Yet profit margins have dropped from a forecast of 7% to 5.6% for 2024 after the company’s cash flow turned negative in the first half of the year. The company states it needs to save 10 billion euros by 2026 in addition to finding a way to cut another 4 billion euros. Operating profits have fallen by 11.4% and they simply cannot continue producing these EVs at the same pace they were producing dreaded fuel-powered cars because the demand is not there.

Now many blame China for providing state subsidies for EVs that are far cheaper than the vehicles produced in Germany. This is why places like the US have placed a 100% tariff on those vehicles so that there is no demand. However, there is simply low demand for electric vehicles everywhere. You cannot force people to buy EVs even if you destroy the energy sector and make prices skyrocket 300% as they did by killing Nordstream. Pushing manufacturers to switch to meet these arbitrary emission targets is killing the entire auto sector which is about 17% of Germany’s entire GDP.

Germany believes it can reduce carbon emissions by 65% by 2030, followed by an 88% reduction into 2040 before meeting gas net neutrality in 2045. They claim that Germany is five years behind on its adoption of electric vehicles as it is far from meeting its goal of 15 million EVs by 2030. The average EV price in euro shot up 7.5% in the past year to €56,669. Infrastructure and charging stations remain inadequate to meet these goals.

Germany relies heavily on automotives, and Europe relies heavily on Germany as its top economy. Now, due to climate initiatives, Volkswagen is closing plants for the first time in its 87-year history. Pay close attention to Germany’s automotive sector, as it could easily cause a ripple effect throughout the entire European economy.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Grist:

Shortly after he was reelected last month, Donald Trump announced an economic gambit that was aggressive even by his standards. He vowed that, on the first day of his second term, he would slap 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and boost those already placed on Chinese products by another 10 percent. 

The move set off a frenzy of pushback. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau even flew to the president-elect’s Florida resort to make his case. Economists say the potential levies threaten to upend global trade — including green technologies, many of which are manufactured in China. The moves would cause price spikes for everything from electric vehicles and heat pumps to solar panels. 

“Typically with tariffs, we’ve seen [companies] pass them along to the consumer,” said Corey Cantor, electric vehicles analyst at Bloomberg NEF. Ansgar Baums, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan foreign policy think tank Stimson Center, said retaliatory moves from the three targeted countries would only make things worse. “It will drive up consumer costs and hurt those who cannot afford it.”

Trump has acknowledged that possibility. But he has argued that tariffs are necessary to force Canada and Mexico to crack down on drugs, particularly fentanyl, and on migrants crossing the border into the U.S. 

The recently threatened tariffs would ratchet prices even higher on things like solar panels, but are also much more far-reaching because of their broad application to North American trading partners. One sweeping impact would be on gasoline prices, because although the U.S. is world’s largest oil producer, older domestic refineries can only process the type of heavier crude that comes from Canada. GasBuddy projects that tariffs could add 35 cents to 75 cents on a gallon of gas.

Automakers will also be hard hit, as $97 billion in parts and some 4 million vehicles come from Canada and, especially, Mexico. That’s where some of the more affordable EVs, such as Ford’s Mustang Mach-E and the Chevrolet Equinox, are manufactured. Wolfe Research said that “given the magnitude, we’d expect most investors to assume Trump ultimately does not follow through with these threats,” but that if they were put in place, tariffs would add $3,000 to the price of the average car, regardless of whether it’s powered by gasoline or a battery.

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The announcement came after encouragement by U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Cabinet ministers Sunday. Sullivan is making his first visit to Beijing on Tuesday. Trudeau said Canada also will impose a 25% tariff on Chinese steel and aluminum. “Actors like China have chosen to give themselves an unfair advantage in the global marketplace,” he said. One of the Chinese-made EVs imported into Canada is from Tesla, made at the company’s Shanghai factory, though the U.S. company could avoid the tariff by switching to supplying Canada from factories in the U.S. or Germany.

Piece from August 2024

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What are your feelings on car centrists? I don’t want to need a car but I still want to have one.

when my friends and i need to organize a big trip to a box grocery store to really stock up, we rent a gig car and split the cost. ideally, there's a public fleet of vehicles accessible to people to use when they need it.

but also, there's no reality where we get to, like, zero percent car ownership. i feel pretty confident in saying that you are not under any risk of being unable to have a car if you feel you'd like to have a car. the idea is not to abolish car ownership altogether (at least not in the short term) but to reduce the number of situations in which the average person NEEDS a car. obviously if you live in the midwest where everything's a million miles apart, until you've got speedy frequent reliable rail and a solid bus network folks are still gonna want cars. this is a big fucking country.

which is why cars need to get smaller again! a big reason why there's a pedestrian death epidemic is that tax exceptions, tariffs, and small business grindset have combined to create a car market where you're most incentivized to buy an SUV or truck. unnecessarily big motherfuckers with awful sight lines and broad flat fronts perfectly designed for killing pedestrians. often spotless and rarely used for the kind of work they're designed for. at least china is out here actually making small EV cars oh wait 100% tariff on chinese EVs thanks biden the most progressive president in modern history!

anyway, i don't think there's such a thing as a "car centrist." there's no middle ground here. we already live in a utopia of cars. if you're a car, it's never been better for you than right now. investing massively in public transit does nothing to affect the existing quantity of car stock, but merely decreases our reliance on it. the kind of project i'm imagining here is something that will take decades of concerted effort to accomplish, along the lines of the New Deal works projects i grew up hearing about from my parents as these astonishing acts of human organization and ingenuity. no one is coming to take your car away, and no one is going to make it impossible for you to get a car any time soon. but wouldn't it be nice if you had a lot more options to get around besides a car?

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News of the Day 4/26/25: Recent Happenings in Not-America

It's been a truly odd few months as an American with more friends than most of us from other countries. I'm seeing the frustration and hatred but also concern on a personal level. So these international stories, not global hot-spots that break through more like Gaza, Ukraine, and now China with the tariffs but just other countries having to deal with us, do strike a bit differently.

Case in point: this lovely little library on the Vermont-Quebec border. Literally: it straddles the border, and you can enter from both countries and move freely within the library no matter your nationality. I actually went there years ago, and it's really not that different from other local public libraries in most ways, but it still felt neat. A bit like those points where they painted a line on the sidewalk between two US states and you could jump from one state to another as a kid. Only for different countries. It felt so normal, which was revolutionary in its own way. And there were no guards or checkpoints, just this trust system that people wouldn't leave the library into the other country.

They're cracking down on that of course, but only a bit. The last I heard you had to show a library card or work there to enter from the Canadian side. I wonder how hard it would be to get a card. It still seems pretty open for what's technically a border crossing. Depressing that there's even that, though. I liked the symbolism of local people meeting up more freely.

More news under the cut of the normal international news, perhaps from an inextricably American perspective but still small enough to not be cosmopolitan in quite the same way Ukraine, Gaza and the like are. Still worth keeping up with as Americans. We're still part of this cockamamie world, no matter what Trump & Co. try to do about that.

Canada

Trump’s trade war and annexation threats have upended Canada’s election

‘No friend anymore’: Days from a national election, Canadian voters focus on the US relationship (X)

How Canada went from preachy to pragmatic. On the eve of an election, its political transformation is stunning (X)

How Trump’s Canada threats dampened Quebec separatist movement – for now

China, Japan, and Asia Generally

Secretive Chinese network tried to lure fired federal workers, research shows. A researcher who uncovered the network said the campaign follows “well-established” techniques used by previous Chinese intelligence operations.

Pete Hegseth says US is setting up a ‘war-fighting’ base in Japan. Trump’s defence secretary uses Tokyo trip to call for a strengthening of the deterrence against China

Europe Generally

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthquake

Barring Marine Le Pen is a political thunderbolt for France: Her sentence for improper use of EU funds could strengthen the hard right. (X)

Detentions of European tourists at U.S. borders spark fears of travelling to America

Army’s swamp tragedy shows America who our friends are (X)

... and Greenland Particularly

Why Trump Is Obsessed With Taking Over Greenland (X)

Vance and wife to tour U.S. military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit

Greenland’s new leader has a message for Trump: ‘We do not belong to anyone’ (X)

Trump has options to acquire Greenland, but few are realistic: Expert (X)

Here's why the US is picking a fight with Denmark over Greenland — and what Greenland thinks about it (X)

The forgotten history of the U.S.’s Cold War presence in Greenland: In a village that was relocated to make room for a military base, Greenlanders are still living with the legacy of the last time the United States took an interest in their island. (X)

Yemen and the Houthis

(How are we actively bombing the Houthis and it still not being at the level of Gaza and Ukraine etc.? It definitely should be. But psychologically it still feels like it's not quite reached that crisis point in the American psychology.)

The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: why are we bombing Yemen?

U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success (X)

US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation – rights groups

Senators challenge Hegseth on civilian deaths in Yemen strikes: Democrats have demanded the Trump administration account for rising loss of life from its intensified campaign against Iran-backed militants. (X)

US struggling to contain Yemen as Houthis down MQ-9 drones - report (X)

Mexico

Mexico moves to ban Noem ads on illegal migration. The ads, featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, have been criticized for being highly discriminatory and have sparked outrage in Mexico. (X)

Northern Mexico farmers fight drought amid water dispute with the US (X)

Chipotle to expand to Mexico amid Trump trade war with U.S. neighbor (X)

A Community-Based Approach to Forest Conservation is Taking Off in Mexico (X)

Mexico Is Becoming a Beacon on Migration (X)

Trump administration directs spy satellite agencies to surveil U.S.-Mexico border (X)

Mexico rejects unilateral US military action after report US is weighing strikes (X)

Two Marines deployed for Trump’s border mission killed in major vehicle accident (X)

Panama

Hegseth says U.S., Panama will "take back" canal "from China's influence" (X)

Pete Hegseth suggests military could return to Central American country to ‘secure’ strategically important canal

The US will deploy troops along the Panama Canal for training, exercises and "other activities" under a joint deal that stops short of allowing the US to build bases in Panama but is still a major concession to US President Donald Trump. (X)

Panama accepted asylum-seekers the US didn’t want. Then its troubles began. (X)

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“It’s China’s fault we’re not fighting climate change quick enough!!”

“It’s China’s fault that entry of electric vehicles into western markets has been slow.”

It’s not Europe and America’s constant trade disputes with them that’s preventing the switch to renewable energy or anything lmfao

It’s not like China isn’t one of the larger investors in renewable energy and EVs or anything pfft

It’s not like European countries have been rolling back their climate action or anything lmfao

China is not great, but the trade war against them is not helping us and all this is going to do is delay more climate action.