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Nerys Avery

@nerysonchina.bsky.social
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China watcher, journalist with 25 years covering the Middle Kingdom. Now back in UK and focusing more on China AI and emerging industries, plus Swiss pharma

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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Weatern economies asleep at the wheel again as Chiba drives electrification to cut its dependence on imported oil www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices
Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“We fed the dragon and it breathed fire,” Japanese companies are giving up on China - after drinking the kool aid and discovering later it was poison www.ft.com/content/3d58... Japanese companies exit China in record numbers
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Japanese companies exit China in record numbers
Diplomatic tensions, slowing Chinese growth and US tariff pressure spur rebalancing of supply chain
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good luck getting China to sign up to this. They’d rather play the game of chicken and see us blink first. A Way Out of the A.I. Arms Race? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
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A Way Out of the A.I. Arms Race?
New research points to how the world could stop short of the brink of disaster. Even with the agreement signed at the White House by tech leaders, it won’t be easy.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The Chinese are not stupid. If they want to hide the origin of someone, they’ll do it,” Parton said. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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MI5 China alert will send chill through UK’s cash-strapped universities
Institutions have for years turned to China for funding opportunities but national security concerns are mounting
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Classic one liner here.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Tories have caused untold damage to this country and its future - Thatcher with, well, everything and Cameron with Brexit and the triple lock. Slowly bankrupting this country over the last 46 years
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Praise for Burnham's speech is OK; it was better than Healey's vacuous drivel. But it misses a key point about politics - that we over-rate words & under-rate power, interests, administration etc.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“ English football’s future looks ever more American. “ I seriously hope not or football here looks increasingly doomed. We need some new rules about concentration of ownership www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Manchester City’s Torment Is a Dream for Its US-Backed Rivals
Manchester City has been found guilty of systematically breaking Premier League rules for almost a decade, in a watershed for the world’s richest football competition. The verdicts taint the legacy of...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Plus of course it provokes a debate about other political contributions eg trade unions to the Labour Party www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hohoho: Some price pledges amount to companies “just making things up”, the executive says, in order to attract enough investment to continue their research — “the most Silicon Valley-type bullshit you could possibly do”. www.ft.com/content/ef51... Nuclear fusion’s moment of truth
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Nuclear fusion’s moment of truth
Start-ups are attracting record investments. Some scientists think their timelines are far too optimistic
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After 25 years covering China I find it hard to believe the CCP has altruistic motives for US cooperation. Its primary aims are maintaining power which means eliminating/controlling potential threats like AI, & preventing US dominance. This is a race it has to win giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Why the US and China are at odds on AI threats
Technological rivalry between Washington and Beijing makes it harder to agree how to manage potentially existential dangers
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
2020: Ben Delo, "Last year I signed The Giving Pledge, pledging to give the majority of my wealth to good causes over my lifetime" 2026: Ben Delo donates £36 million to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is hilarious. After all the doom and gloom over AI exterminating the human race we need a bit of light relief www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
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View: How do you price the end of the world?
A look at the possible risk factors for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs now that fear about AI destroying humanity is mainstream.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s Groundhog Day
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I thought there were supposed to be rules about revolving doors between government and industry. Rishi Sunak now Clifford. This is so outrageous
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Totally unrelated events I am sure. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Architect of British government’s AI strategy joins Anthropic
Matt Clifford, who drafted AI action plan and advised Starmer and Sunak, hired for senior role at US firm
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yup, while we in the West laugh at the clumsy robots, China is looking to the future. I hope our governments are too. From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat - www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat
China's military establishment is accelerating humanoid robot development for eventual battlefield use, planning scenarios from urban assaults to infiltrating enemy lines, according to a Reuters revie...
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A vacuous, cowardly piece by the BBC here, which does little more than launder into the public domain the lies and excuses of Reform www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks
The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Before reading this place a cushion below your jawline
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is so disappointing and such bad timing, right when the world needs good reporting on China more than ever. It’s unbelievable! I thoroughly enjoyed reading your articles and always looked forward to the email alerts. I hope at least you’ll both continue to write on China.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
(As an analog, it wasn’t until after the 1973 embargo was *lifted* that markets crashed.) @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
G&R: “.. we believe the market has it almost exactly backwards. The consensus assumes that the end of the war will mark the end of the crisis. We believe it may mark the moment the crisis finally arrives.” @jessefelder.com thefelderreport.com/2026/09/05/t...
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What a great read 👇 www.wired.com/story/who-ca...
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Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every major party leader has put out a statement that they are reporting Reform UK to the police. The BBC's politics feed: JEEZUS MARY AND THE WEE DONKEY, surely the fact they have been reported to the police at the very least is very reasonably reportable!
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026
This is serious. If Reform blatantly, intentionally and knowingly broke election law, they should be held fully accountable. Liberal Democrats have asked the Police and the Electoral Commission to investigate.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Masters of their own affairs with copious amounts of help from China (Iran anyone?)
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice bit of gaslighting from PBOC. China wasnt bothered when it was protecting its own industries to help them withstand domestic competition when they were developing. Its already wiped out solar panels and western economies have hopefully learnt their lesson www.caixinglobal.com/2026-09-03/p...
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PBOC Chief Blames Protectionism for Global Imbalances at G20
Pan Gongsheng reaffirms China’s moderately loose monetary stance
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a must-read for everyone - government officials, politicians, businesses and individuals. Chilling and insightful piece about China’s dangerous control of global supply chains. americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/08/over...
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Overcoming China’s Supply Chain Leverage - American Affairs Journal
Since joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, China has, barely without foreign notice, executed one of the most consequential economic strategies in modern history. When it entered the WT...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
Coons: "My first question to those who are on the 'leave behind' decoy plane would be, do you realize the president just isn't that into you?"
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Good to see some measured discussion of this ridiculous narrative about AI agents “going rogue” ( despite the headline). They are not going rogue. I really hope the popular media start some sensible reporting Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please www.wired.com/story/rogue-...
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Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please
AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
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Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How to TikTok like Andy: "Perhaps you are not doing TikTok and Instagram videos at all because you’re, well, an adult. But now you see that even PMs are Tiking, or Toking, and you realise that lying on LinkedIn is no longer enough of a social media offering." www.ft.com/content/57ec...
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How can I TikTok like Andy Burnham?
The whole middle-aged working stiff genre is being redefined. You can’t afford not to be involved
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Seems par for the course these days
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/07/2026
With a growing backlash against A.I. data centers, interest is growing in putting the energy-thirsty operations into orbit. Researches are developing solar power tech to prevent the equipment from overheating in space.
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A.I. Data Centers in Space? A System to Cool Chips Could Help.
Researchers at Caltech and Sophia Space, a start-up, have developed a technology using solar power to prevent computer equipment from overheating in orbit.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Bank of England is so blinkered by outdated dogma. Even thinking about raising rates during supply side shocks when people and companies are already struggling is insanity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bank holds interest rates but says it is ready to raise them if Iran war escalates
The Bank also expects the economy to grow more than previously forecast this year, although uncertainties remain because of the Iran war.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🤔 Challenged by Paul about National Institutes of Health funding for virus research in China, Fauci is repeatedly invoking his Fifth Amendment rights not to answer questions. Live: Fauci Refuses to Answer Senators’ Questions on Covid Origins www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
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Trump Live Updates: Fauci Refuses to Answer Senators’ Questions on Covid Origins
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.
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Nerys Avery @nerysonchina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ultimate gaslighting here ny China on AI www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Party Mouthpiece Warns Against ‘Iron Curtain’ in World AI
China will promote the sharing of artificial intelligence advances while fighting attempts to monopolize the technology, an influential state newspaper wrote, setting the tone for President Xi Jinping...
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