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Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China’s economy in 2025 – and more than 90% of the rise in investment.

Nexperia's Chinese subsidiary says it has begun producing its own chips using 12-inch wafers, a further step toward independence from its Dutch parent (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexperia-china-a…

Epstein tried to cozy up to Russian officials, including Putin, documents show (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/08/politics/epstein-putin-russian-officials-connections
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p60#a260208p60

Rashan Gary trade grades: Reverberations of the Micah Parsons trade https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7101355/2026/03/09/rashan-gary-packers-cowboys-trade-grades/

European Union Agrees to Landmark Free-Trade Deal With South America (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/business/economy/european-union-mercosur-trade.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p39#a260109p39

China says its trade surplus from digital services rose 100% to a record $33B in 2025, boosted by overseas revenue of AI, livestreaming, and e-commerce (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/china-dig…

How President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-tariffs-vietnam-china-video-…

Canada's DC envoy to exit as US trade talks stall (Mike Blanchfield/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/canada-dc-envoy-trade-00683971
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p133#a251209p133

Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-using-banned-nvidia-chi…

DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, according to six people with knowledge of the matter. The chips DeepSeek is using were smuggled ...

Starmer to Lose Third Top Official With Wormald Expected to Quit (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/starmer-to-lose-third-top-official-with-wormald-expected-to-quit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p31#a260210p31