Eduardo Valencia

international affairs | now at @GIGA_Institute #T4T | alum @thehertieschool | 🇪🇨 | fútbol y guitarra | opinions mine

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

@PedTalksSports It'd be mainly because Europeans do not watch South American football.

[Alicia GarciaHerrero 艾西亞 @Aligarciaherrer]

I am a Spaniard, and I am European by conviction, not by accident. So let me say plainly what these days have cost me.

When tens of thousands crossed into Ceuta and sixty-seven people died on our breakwaters, my Prime Minister called it an attack on Spain's territorial integrity. He was right. And what did much of Europe do? Italy suspended free movement with us. Finland and Denmark backed it. Others demanded Spain's suspension from Schengen — as if the victims of a border surge were its perpetrators.

I have watched Spain shelter those who came through Belarus, those who reached Lampedusa. Solidarity, when it was ours to give, we gave. To be answered now with suspicion rather than support is not policy. It is abandonment dressed as prudence.

I do not pretend to know Rabat's full calculus. But I see Washington's drumbeat — congressional language reclassifying our cities, think tanks urging recognition of them as "occupied." And I see Morocco, a neighbour whose people deserve growth and welfare, drawn into a contest over Ceuta and Melilla that serves palaces and strategists, not families.

Europe, this is the test. Integrity is not a favour. It is the promise we made each other.

[Emmanuel Alejandro Rondón @rondon_EA26]

Nuevamente, papelón de toda la prensa global deportiva: DAZN, CNN, BBC, L’Équipe y los propios medios argentinos además de todas las cuentas deportivas virales en redes sociales que tergiversaron una nota aclaratoria por priorizar el titular polémico y el clickbait.

Mientras tanto, Infantino buscando vender una participación de la Copa del Mundo a intereses privados a cifras escandalosas. ¡Por suerte, los medios están en lo importante!

[Rocío Caro Pacello @HopelessHairr]

Vamos a desarmar esta idea muy fácilmente. A Brasil no lo odian HOY porque no gana ni es una amenaza.

Revisemos lo que decía la prensa internacional cuando Brasil estaba en lo más alto.

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

@euronews @michaelreid52 So many smart people buying and reproducing this kind of colonialist thinking and language. Profoundly disappointing...

[Roberto Carlés @robertinocarles]

Regardless of the reactions after the final whistle, anyone who has watched more than a handful of football matches knows that Argentina’s performance was neither unusually violent nor free from punishment: we finished the match with ten players! Finals have seen far worse: Zidane’s headbutt, Neuer’s flying knee, or De Jong’s kick to Xabi Alonso’s chest. This narrative is yet another expression of the colonial mindset some still cannot escape, unable to recognize violence when it comes from their own side.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

What is the opposite of xenophobia? Argentina. The data.

[Pedro Martínez Bruera @pmbruera]

Argentina is neither the first nor the last team to play physically. Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy were brutal. It is also not the first whose players or fans have made discriminatory remarks. Remember Germany in 2014? Yet you never see pseudoscientific AI slop analyzing the roots of their “national character.” But our armchair experts, who discovered the sport a month ago, would never notice the double standard.

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

@NickBurns True, but it does reveal its parochialism.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

As a development economist, the idea of China's overcapacity problem is one of the silliest things I've heard.

Economic development entails export-led growth (i.e. 'overcapacity').

China's overcapacity problem is a myth spread by other countries being outcompeted by China.

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

The European mind would never understand

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

@GIGA_Institute @BertHoffmann @kuerzdoerfer_n @winter_elis About to start 👇🏽

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

Join us on Thursday for a discussion on #ResponsibleEconomicStatecraft! 🌍
We're launching our report with insights from a stellar lineup of thinkers. Join us in Berlin or online! 👇 #Geoeconomics

[German Institute for Global and Area Studies @GIGA_Institute]

How can #EconomicStatecraft tools be used responsibly? At a #GIGATalk, @BertHoffmann, @kuerzdoerfer_n, @evalencia100, Helen Nesadurai, Laura Oexle & @winter_elis will launch a report on this issue & discuss insights.
➡️ Join in Berlin or online, 28 Nov: https://t.co/ynnFZ5CCnq

[German Institute for Global and Area Studies @GIGA_Institute]

Global Perspectives on Responsible #EconomicStatecraft: @BertHoffmann, @kuerzdoerfer_n, @evalencia100, Helen Nesadurai, Laura Oexle & @winter_elis will discuss how to navigate geopolitical tensions with economic tools.
➡️ #GIGATalk, Berlin/online, 28 Nov: https://t.co/ynnFZ5DacY

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Looking at the numbers it’s obvious Harris would have won with a different Gaza policy. Margins in Wisconsin and Michigan are extremely small (Dearborn alone may have decided it) and she would be favourite to win Pennsylvania as well

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

@yuenyuenang This thread is so good

[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

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[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

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[Eduardo Valencia @evalencia100]

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[German Institute for Global and Area Studies @GIGA_Institute]

Starting at 2 pm CEST:
#GIGATalk “Global Perspectives on #BRICS+”
Our experts Richard Cuntz @GermanyDiplo, @johannes_petry, Julia Ganter @KoerberIP, @m_prys, @mona_saleh20 & @DibaMirzaei will explore implications for #ForeignPolicy.
➡️ In Berlin or online: https://t.co/evz4sK75pE