@GrahamTAllison

Douglas Dillon Professor @Kennedy_School | Former Director @BelferCenter | Author of "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap?"

 Cambridge, MA
belfercenter.org/person/graham-allison
Joined January 2017
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1/ China Challenge: Believe It Or Not* Who Dominates Europe’s Biggest Auto Show?
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6/ Europe’s response: a quota. Under a deal reached with Beijing this month, the EU will cap imports of Chinese plug-in hybrids at 350,000 in the first year, which would cut imports by roughly half.
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7/ *As part of an effort to improve our understanding of China, I will continue to offer another “Believe It Or Not” about China each week. Readers are invited to send along candidates for the list.
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2/ In political campaigns, managers count unpaid ads as twice as valuable as paid advertising. Unpaid ads are news coverage that supports their candidate.
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8/ What the story neglects to say is that the world’s leader in tandem panels is a Chinese company.
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9/ China’s LONGi already makes the world’s most efficient tandem cells, but does not currently mass-produce them because they are not cost competitive with other Chinese alternatives.
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1/ Unpaid Ads for Companies’ Products?
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1/ For Want of a Nail...?
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10/ About the reason why—it's complicated, of course.
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11/ But according to reporting by Farah Stockman at The New York Times, a major reason is the inability to increase production of one small but essential screw. nytimes.com/2026/09/26/busin…

This Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years.

As the Trump administration scrambles to increase the production of munitions, these special screws are expensive and hard to source.

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