Patrick McDowell

Editor at Bloomberg Opinion in Hong Kong. Ex-WSJ, AP. Old hand in Asia, Europe, Africa, US. Opinions are mine, RTs are not endorsements.

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The fortunes of a remote tungsten pit have risen and fallen through more than a century of conflicts. The critical mineral could now be a deterrent. https://t.co/09R6K4tCD8

[Tom Wright @TomWrightAsia]

Jho Low ain’t getting a pardon.

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Getting a free hand at regulators like the SEC and CFTC could be more important for Trump than firing a Fed governor, writes @johnauthers https://t.co/QxVUWJDEJ7

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Asia got a lot more places in this year's World Cup. But, writes @GearoidReidy, a region long hailed as the future of football has failed to capitalize https://t.co/DsReB9gRmp

[David Crary @CraryAP]

ICE releases a Texas nun intercepted walking to church dressed in her habit
https://t.co/COcydZEb78

[Tuoi Tre News @VietNewsGateway]

'Bond girl' Jane Seymour attends Da Nang Asian Film Festival, praises Vietnam

Full story: https://t.co/RjwfMwNvpo

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Mark Zuckerberg is betting that an Indian fintech founder can succeed where others have failed and turn WhatsApp into a super app, writes @andymukherjee70 https://t.co/wulzfClE03

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Alan Greenspan leaves a convoluted legacy, writes @johnauthers, but he's an inspiration for current White House economic policy https://t.co/zH9X49hm9m

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What if the next big tech trend isn’t more AI but less? @cathythorbecke explains why Gen Z is embracing devices that do less 🎥

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

“When it comes to nuclear negotiations, we are back at the prewar stage, but with the U.S. leverage removed,” said Dania Thafer, director of the Gulf International Forum think tank. “Pandora’s box has already been opened, everything has been tested, and Iran feels it doesn’t have much more to lose or to fear. The worst has already happened, from the Iranian perspective, and they have survived it.”
@Dr_DaniaThafer

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Forget a deliberate, planned climb down from high interest rates, write @johnauthers and @annerquaye. Kevin Wash will be on a hairpin bus ride https://t.co/RHtycCTnTq

[Ted Anthony @anthonyted]

A hunger unlike any other. My tribute to the OG Slim Jim. https://t.co/QYM59DMmIn

[michael casey @mcasey1]

David Briscoe, AP journalist who chronicled Philippines' democratic revolution, dies at 82 https://t.co/s1SFlIRtZf

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Takaichi is seeing Japan's new normalcy slip away, @writes @johnauthers https://t.co/V7n48hwAVD

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Spurred by an insult from the chief justice of India, a meme has quickly transformed into a real political movement with mass appeal, @andymukherjee70 says 🎥

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China seems to dominate every market, says @julianaliu, but there's one where it's still no superpower — arms sales https://t.co/7LxWZVH3Er

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

@k_sonin The useful idiots didn’t know they were manipulated, the fellow travelers did but didn’t care.

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Pope Leo just took society's pulse on AI, writes @johnauthers. Think of it as a crisis indicator too big to ignore https://t.co/FAy2rfISOO

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Very depressing reading how Italy wasted the recovery and reconstruction fund, a bill I helped to impulse and negotiate. Same thing could be written for Spain.
And it is worse than the @ft article says, as it does not mention the biggest waste: the €220bn super bonus
https://t.co/HyGVUQmNEs

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The pope gives a morality check to the forces driving AI and the threat of robot overlords, writes @johnauthers https://t.co/rYxKJp8vhw