# industrial policy (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover industrial policy. Page: Feed: --- ## [CPA Warns USTR: America’s Section 232 Metals Tariffs Are National Security Measures, Not Bargaining Chips](https://prosperousamerica.org/cpa-warns-ustr-americas-section-232-metals-tariffs-are-national-security-measures-not-bargaining-chips/) _2026-08-21 · CPA Newsroom · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ If Canada wants a deal, there is no shortage of things Ottawa can put on the table — America’s national security tariffs on aluminum and steel are not among them ## [Overcaffeinated in Indonesia](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/overcaffeinated-in-indonesia) _2026-08-21 · Irene Zhang · ChinaTalk_ ChinaTalk travel writing returns! ## [Overcaffeinated in Indonesia](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/overcaffeinated-in-indonesia) _2026-08-21 · Irene Zhang · ChinaTalk_ ChinaTalk travel writing returns! ## [Teaching Maritime Culture and History in Eastern Taiwan](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/21/teaching-maritime-culture-and-history-in-eastern-taiwan/) _2026-08-21 · NGA Shi Yeu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Eric Siu-kei Cheng. This article explores how maritime education in Taitung turns Taiwan’s eastern coastline into a living classroom. Drawing on fieldwork, community collaboration, fisheries, food education, and Green Island’s White Terror heritage, the author shows how students engage with environmental sustainability, Indigenous knowledge, local livelihoods, cultural preservation, and… ## [China’s Maritime Pressure Spans Sea and Screen: Taiwan Needs a Regional Evidence Network](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/20/chinas-maritime-pressure-spans-sea-and-screen-taiwan-needs-a-regional-evidence-network/) _2026-08-20 · NGA Shi Yeu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Ming-hui Tang. This article analyses how Beijing combines maritime patrols, AI-generated propaganda, and legal framing to create an illusion of administrative control around Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines. To counter this strategy of jurisdictional enclosure, it argues that Taiwan must leverage its strategic position to build a public regional evidence network with its neighbours.… ## [The Haultain Brief, Vol. 1, No. 33](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/the-haultain-brief-vol-1-no-33) _2026-08-19 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ THE HAULTAIN BRIEF ## [North Korean Messiah](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/north-korean-messiah) _2026-08-19 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality ## [North Korean Messiah](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/north-korean-messiah) _2026-08-19 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality ## [Islands as Breathing Infrastructures: Why Are More Visitors Making Livelihoods More Difficult in Today’s Kinmen?](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/19/islands-as-breathing-infrastructures-why-are-more-visitors-making-livelihoods-more-difficult-in-todays-kinmen/) _2026-08-19 · NGA Shi Yeu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Chengyu Yang. This essay examines how Kinmen’s surge in cross-strait transit passengers strains local livelihoods and infrastructure without delivering proportional economic benefits. As a passage between Taiwan proper and mainland China, Kinmen acts as a "breathing infrastructure", a delicate sea-air system easily desynchronised by weather disruptions. Consequently, high passenger… ## [Why China’s AI Bubble Is Also Industrial Policy](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-chinas-ai-bubble-is-also-industrial) _2026-08-18 · ChinaTalk_ Inside China’s Venture Capital Game ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PoMnKwpj0jFc) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Staying Afloat in the Wave of Zero-Fees Policies: Agreement on Reciprocal Trade and its Impact on the Taiwanese Fishing Industry – Part II](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/18/staying-afloat-in-the-wave-of-zero-fees-policies-agreement-on-reciprocal-trade-and-its-impact-on-the-taiwanese-fishing-industry-part-ii/) _2026-08-18 · NGA Shi Yeu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Shao-Yun Chang, Vanny El Rahman, and Beatrice Zani. This article (part 2) continues to illustrate how the US-Taiwan Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) and its mandatory "zero-fee" recruitment policies impact Taiwan’s fishing industry. While designed to protect foreign migrant workers from predatory debt bondage, the policy places heavy financial strain on small-scale vessel owners… ## [Atlantic Canada must be told 'no,' or it will continue to decline](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/atlantic-canada-must-be-told-no-or) _2026-08-17 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ Atlantic Canada’s dependence on equalization, generous EI, oversized public services and other federal subsidies has weakened private-sector growth and worsened provincial finances. The authors urge conditional equalization, shared services, expenditure reviews and broad national reform. ## [The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-rise-of-chinas-electric-vehicle) _2026-08-17 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ How did China grow its EV industry? ## [Staying Afloat in the Wave of Zero-Fees Policies: Agreement on Reciprocal Trade and its Impact on the Taiwanese Fishing Industry – Part I](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/17/staying-afloat-in-the-wave-of-zero-fees-policies-agreement-on-reciprocal-trade-and-its-impact-on-the-taiwanese-fishing-industry-part-i/) _2026-08-17 · NGA Shi Yeu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Shao-Yun Chang, Vanny El Rahman, and Beatrice Zani. This article (part 1) examines how the US-Taiwan Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) and its mandatory "zero-fee" recruitment policies impact Taiwan’s fishing industry. While designed to protect foreign migrant workers from predatory debt bondage, the policy places heavy financial strain on small-scale vessel owners already facing… ## [The Elbows Up Secular Priest](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/the-elbows-up-secular-priest) _2026-08-15 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ A Catholic Worker founder and twenty-one-year MP has rebuilt himself as Canada’s most successful merchant of political rage. Inside Charlie Angus’s resistance economy, its excommunications, and what his expulsion campaign would cost ordinary Canadians. ## [CPA Commends Trump Administration for Exposing the Great Transshipment Scam; Urges Tariffs Designed to Defeat It](https://prosperousamerica.org/cpa-commends-trump-administration-for-exposing-the-great-transshipment-scam-urges-tariffs-designed-to-defeat-it/) _2026-08-14 · CPA Newsroom · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ The report documents how goods subject to higher U.S. tariffs are routinely rerouted through lower-tariff countries, undermining both tariff enforcement and American manufacturing. ## [China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-best-music-in-2026-so-far) _2026-08-14 · Jake · ChinaTalk_ Jake Newby is the author of the Concrete Avalanche Substack, which covers the best music coming out of China. ## [Twenty years of Taiwan in Avignon: soft power on someone else’s terms](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/14/twenty-years-of-taiwan-in-avignon-soft-power-on-someone-elses-terms/) _2026-08-14 · Chee-Hann Wu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Romain Blachier. This article explores Taiwan’s twenty-year presence at the Festival Off d’Avignon, arguing that international cultural exchange is shaped by language, institutional practices, and artistic selection. It highlights how these factors influence what Taiwanese artists can communicate abroad and emphasises the value of sustained cross-cultural collaboration. Continue reading ## [The end of “post-apartheid South Africa” and the birth of normal and better politics](https://www.africanistperspective.com/p/the-end-of-post-apartheid-south-africa) _2026-08-14 · Ken Opalo · An Africanist Perspective_ So far the rainbow nation has been a sterling example of reconciliation and peaceful decolonization. Now the hard work of doing normal bare-knuckle pro-growth politics must begin. ## [CPA Applauds Court of International Trade Ruling Upholding the End of the De Minimis Loophole](https://prosperousamerica.org/cpa-applauds-court-of-international-trade-ruling-upholding-the-end-of-the-de-minimis-loophole/) _2026-08-13 · CPA Newsroom · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ For years, the de minimis loophole allowed foreign shippers to send packages valued at up to $800 into the United States duty-free, tax-free, and with virtually no customs scrutiny — so long as the foreign vendor merely alleged the value was below the threshold. ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xtQapZLlCvj9) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [The $166 Billion Tariff Refund is Corporate America’s Biggest Payday](https://prosperousamerica.org/the-166-billion-tariff-refund-is-corporate-americas-biggest-payday/) _2026-08-13 · Andrew Rechenberg · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ The companies that spent a year insisting tariffs were a tax on consumers are now cashing the refund checks themselves. ## [The DeepSeek Thesis](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-deepseek-thesis) _2026-08-13 · Irene Zhang · ChinaTalk_ a very different kind of guy ## [The DeepSeek Thesis](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-deepseek-thesis) _2026-08-13 · Irene Zhang · ChinaTalk_ a very different kind of guy ## [Field notes from Douliu’s urban resilience drill](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/13/field-notes-from-doulius-urban-resilience-drill/) _2026-08-13 · Adrian Chiu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Tom Wilson. Urban resilience drills in Taiwan have been promoted as a cornerstone of President Lai's whole-of-society approach to preparing for contingencies and crises. How do they look in practice? Drawing on observations of the urban resilience exercise in Douliu, this article explores how everyday state-society relationships can shape and complicate efforts to build resilience.… ## [The Haultain Brief, Vol. 1, No. 32, Wednesday 12 August 2026](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/the-haultain-brief-vol-1-no-32-wednesday) _2026-08-13 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ The Haultain Brief is a weekly compilation of the news that matters for Alberta and Western Canada. ## [China's Quantum Flywheel](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-quantum-flywheel) _2026-08-12 · Lily Ottinger · ChinaTalk_ Six months of Party mobilization ## [Taiwan’s view on Free and Open Indo-Pacific](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/12/taiwans-view-on-free-and-open-indo-pacific/) _2026-08-12 · Adrian Chiu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Dr Madhukar Shyam and Manya Singhal. This article argues that Taiwan's foreign policy towards the Indo-Pacific should be analysed within the framework of the New Southbound Policy and President Lai's NSP+. The FOIP strategy is perceived by Taiwan as an approach that will ensure its sovereignty. Beyond condemning China's expansionism, Taiwan should adopt the "porcupine strategy", invest… ## [AI Evals for the Situation Room, Explained](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/ai-evals-for-the-situation-room-explained) _2026-08-11 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ $25k contest to understand nuke happy models ## [A Dual-Use Defence Industry for Taiwan: Potential and Pitfalls](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/11/a-dual-use-defence-industry-for-taiwan-potential-and-pitfalls/) _2026-08-11 · Adrian Chiu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Drake Long. This article explores the opportunities and challenges facing Taiwan's dual-use defence industry. Although Taiwan's industry is ambitious to become a manufacturing hub for drones and other dual-use technologies, its success depends on sustained government investment and access to foreign markets, with the EU as an ideal target for deepening ties. Continue reading ## [$25k Contest: Evals for the Situation Room](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/25k-contest-evals-for-the-situation) _2026-08-10 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ humanity needs you! ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iSJxwz2iNsQW) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [Beyond Flashpoints: Understanding the Politics Behind Taiwan’s Strategic Choices](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/10/beyond-flashpoints-understanding-the-politics-behind-taiwans-strategic-choices/) _2026-08-10 · Adrian Chiu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Lucy Best. This article argues that issues of everyday governance, such as budgets, industrial development, and energy availability, that underpin Taiwan's strategic success have become increasingly important for Taiwan's partners to understand. Taiwan's resilience is a question of whether its democratic institutions can continue to manage disagreement, produce effective policy and… ## [One Premier Paid: Alberta’s COVID Distinction](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/one-premier-paid-albertas-covid-distinction) _2026-08-08 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ The Fauci diaries reopened the COVID file. Reading them from Alberta prompts a question: why did only one Canadian premier lose his job over the pandemic regime? The answer reveals a distinct political culture. ## [WarTalk: Odyssey Edition](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-odyssey-edition) _2026-08-08 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ yes you need more odyssey content ## [WarTalk: Odyssey Edition](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-odyssey-edition) _2026-08-08 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ yes you need more odyssey content ## [WarTalk: Ammo + CCAs Are Dumb?](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-ammo-ccas-are-dumb) _2026-08-07 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ what’s left in the magazine after six months of Iran ## [Beyond the China Lens and the Silicon Shield: The Case for Taiwan to Explore Credibility Diplomacy](https://taiwaninsight.org/2026/08/07/beyond-the-china-lens-and-the-silicon-shield-the-case-for-taiwan-to-explore-credibility-diplomacy/) _2026-08-07 · Adrian Chiu · Taiwan Insight_ Written by Noah Metheny. This article argues that the China lens and the silicon shield each capture part of Taiwan's strategic importance, but neither explains its growing international influence. Moving beyond both narratives requires recognising that Taiwan increasingly derives influence from credibility rather than legitimacy, earned through decades of institutional development and democratic… ## [CPA Applauds President Trump’s Section 232 Proclamation Securing America’s Polysilicon and Solar Supply Chain](https://prosperousamerica.org/cpa-applauds-president-trumps-section-232-proclamation-securing-americas-polysilicon-and-solar-supply-chain/) _2026-08-06 · CPA Newsroom · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ Today’s Section 232 proclamation secures that foundation, and the entire structure is built to reward one thing: manufacturing in America. Companies investing in U.S. polysilicon, wafer, and cell production are the clear winners, and companies that continue to rely on imports will be at a disadvantage. ## [Beijing Wants Its Money From 1997. American Bondholders Have Been Waiting Since 1938.](https://prosperousamerica.org/beijing-wants-its-money-from-1997-american-bondholders-have-been-waiting-since-1938/) _2026-08-06 · CPA Newsroom · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ The CCP is ready to look back decades for taxes owed to it — but not for the sovereign bond obligations it owes to thousands of American families. ## [CPA Releases New Report Urging Treasury and USTR to Reject USMCA Aluminum Exemptions, Strengthen Downstream Tariffs](https://prosperousamerica.org/cpa-releases-new-report-urging-treasury-and-ustr-to-reject-usmca-aluminum-exemptions-strengthen-downstream-tariffs/) _2026-08-06 · CPA Newsroom · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ Findings show that U.S. tariff policy leaves the aluminum industry’s largest employment base exposed, even as primary aluminum tariff costs are passed on to extruders and fabricators. ## [Securing an American Aluminum Supply Chain: Why Downstream Tariff Coverage Is Essential](https://prosperousamerica.org/securing-an-american-aluminum-supply-chain-why-downstream-tariff-coverage-is-essential/) _2026-08-06 · Andrew Rechenberg · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ U.S. aluminum tariff policy must consider the full aluminum value chain. Downstream extruders and fabricators account for most aluminum manufacturing employment and are the key producers converting metal into critical products used in construction, transportation, machinery, electrical systems, packaging, defense, and other industrial markets. ## [FCC’s Adam Chan on the New Robot Rule](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/fccs-adam-chan-on-the-new-robot-rule) _2026-08-06 · Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk_ import substitution as industrial policy ## [New: The Haultain Brief, Volume 1, No. 31](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/new-the-haultain-brief-volume-1-no) _2026-08-05 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ The Haultain Brief is a weekly compilation of the news that matters for Alberta and Western Canada. ## [Import Values Fell By Around $6 Billion In June, But Month Was Second Highest Goods Import Surge of 2026](https://prosperousamerica.org/import-values-fell-by-around-6-billion-in-june-but-month-was-second-highest-goods-import-surge-of-2026/) _2026-08-04 · Kenneth Rapoza · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ Despite foreign currency gains against the dollar in top trading partners like Mexico, Vietnam and China, import values for goods came in at $309.01 billion. That is the second highest import value of the year following May’s $316.86 billion surge, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Tuesday. ## [Foreign Supply Shocks – Not U.S. Tariffs – Are Driving the Fertilizer Crisis Threatening American Grocery Bills](https://prosperousamerica.org/foreign-supply-shocks-not-u-s-tariffs-are-driving-the-fertilizer-crisis-threatening-american-grocery-bills/) _2026-08-03 · CPA Newsroom · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ New CPA report finds America’s food security depends on fertilizer, and that foreign supply shocks—not U.S. trade remedies—are driving this year’s fertilizer crisis. ## [Food Security Is Fertilizer Security](https://prosperousamerica.org/food-security-is-fertilizer-security/) _2026-08-03 · Andrew Rechenberg · Coalition For A Prosperous America_ Fertilizer, and access to it, is essential in maintaining the strength of the entire American agricultural sector. Mineral fertilizers are responsible for over half the food produced worldwide, and it has run up to 44 percent of corn operating costs and up to 45 percent of wheat operating costs since 2020. When fertilizer prices spike, they hit the crops that feed the country — and the livestock… ## [The State That Outranks G-d](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/the-state-that-outranks-god) _2026-08-03 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ Ottawa has ordered G-d out of military ceremonies while Regina police licensed an amplified call to prayer and threatened its potential critics. In with the "new" and out with the "old." ## [Mexico Kept Its Head. Canada Raised Its Elbows.](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/mexico-kept-its-head-canada-raised) _2026-08-01 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ Trump insulted Mexico far more crudely than Canada. Mexico negotiates on, 85 per cent of exports tariff-free. Canada gets a 50 per cent tariff on US$20 billion. One neighbour kept its head. Why? ## [Book Review (3/26): The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise (by Pritish Behuria)](https://www.africanistperspective.com/p/book-review-326-the-political-economy) _2026-07-28 · Ken Opalo · An Africanist Perspective_ On developmentalist state-building and its impacts on business-state relations. ## [Autonomous Vehicles are Data Centers on Wheels](https://lcdstrategy.substack.com/p/autonomous-vehicles-are-the-next) _2026-07-27 · Lisa · LCD Strategy_ 13 years ago, in 2013, I got to beta test one Google’s “Self-Driving Cars.” You might know them today as Waymos. ## [Only Ottawa Could Build This Toll Booth](https://mnghaultain.substack.com/p/only-ottawa-could-build-this-toll) _2026-07-26 · Marco Navarro-Génie · Haultain Research_ British Columbia could not toll Alberta's oil; the Courts said so in 2020. A year and a day after promising an end to interprovincial barriers, Ottawa delivered the toll itself.