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🔴Monday May 3rd 2021 🔵2021年5月3日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🕯️1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🕯️Unhappy birthday: Northern Ireland’s centenary 生日不快樂：北愛爾蘭一百週年紀念 Today marks 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland. The Government of Ireland Act, passed by Westminster in 1920, had partitioned the island of Ireland, against the background of a war of independence waged...

🔴Friday April 30th 2021 🔵2021年4月30日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 ❓❓❓What comes next: the history of post-pandemic booms 疫病大流行後的繁榮：大難不死真有後福？ The virus continues to rage in poor countries. But rich ones are on the brink of a post-pandemic boom, as case numbers slide. American GDP figures released yesterday show it is nearly back to its pre-pandemic...

🔴Thursday April 29th 2021 🔵2021年4月29日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💻💪📱💰The geopolitics of chipmaking: TSMC 晶片的地緣政治：護國神山台積電 Like British menus, the modern world requires chips with everything. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company dominates the industry, controlling 84% of the market for cutting-edge chips, and wants to increase that share. This...

🔴Wednesday April 28th 2021 🔵2021年4月28日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💪🇫🇷💪Macron clamps down: France’s new anti-terrorism law 馬克宏硬起來：法國新的反恐法 Five days ago a female police official was stabbed to death at a police station in Rambouillet, south-west of Paris, in a terrorist attack. Today the French government will consider a new draft anti-terrorism law. P...

🔴Tuesday April 27th 2021 🔵2021年4月27日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 ➡️🚗⬅️Mind your back, Mr Musk: Tesla and its competitors 馬斯克腹背受敵：特斯拉的競爭群雄並起 Before hosting “Saturday Night Live” on May 8th, Elon Musk, the “technoking” of Tesla, will have some serious questions to answer when his electric-vehicle firm reports first-quarter earnings today. Many will b...

🔴Monday April 26th 2021 🔵2021年4月26日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😱😨😰Parleying on Apple: the controversial app returns Parler：辣個極具爭議性的 App 捲土重來 Exile has been hard for Parler, which this week returns to the Apple app store. The Twitter clone beloved by the far right was kicked off Apple’s and Google’s app stores, as well as Amazon’s servers, following t...

🔴Friday April 23rd 2021 🔵2021年4月23日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🕵🐘🕵The elephant in the room: ASEAN’s summit on Myanmar 非禮勿言：東南亞國協高峰會 feat. 緬甸 Tomorrow the club of South-East Asian countries will hold an emergency meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, to discuss the crisis in Myanmar. The army seized power in a coup in February and has since killed...

🔴Thursday April 22nd 2021 🔵2021年4月22日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇺🇸🌍🇺🇸Promising the earth: Biden’s climate summit 為地球盡一份心力：拜登的氣候高峰會 Today—Earth Day—Joe Biden, America’s president, will host 40 world leaders in a virtual two-day “climate summit”. His goal is a grand one: to persuade other countries to take more action on climate change, while also r...

🔴Wednesday April 21st 2021 🔵2021年4月21日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🍃🇪🇺💰Green indecision: sustainable finance in Europe 綠色猶豫不決：歐洲的可持續金融 Today the European Commission is expected to publish a second draft of its proposal for a green “taxonomy”. The classification system aims to define which economic activities count as sustainable in high-emitting sect...

🔴Tuesday April 20th 2021 🔵2021年4月20日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😵🇷🇺😵Not going quietly: Navalny v Putin 納瓦尼 vs. 普丁：死也要拉你墊背 Yesterday Russia’s prison service said that Alexei Navalny’s health was “satisfactory”, but that he had been moved to an infirmary—nearly three weeks into a hunger strike to demand access to his preferred doctor. But the opposition...

🔴Monday April 19th 2021 🔵2021年4月19日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 😠⛳️😠Fighting over the fore-fathers: Ohio’s golfing dispute 先烈爭奪戰：美國俄亥俄州的高爾夫糾紛 The Moundbuilders Country Club in Newark, Ohio boasts a unique golf course. The 18 holes are positioned among a series of mounds, which can make certain shots almost blind. First developed in 1911, the cour...

🔴Friday April 16th 2021 🔵2021年4月16日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🙅‍♀️🇨🇺🙅‍♂️No más: Castros, not communism 拜託別再來：這不是共產主義，是卡斯楚兄弟 Cuba’s ruling Communist Party begins its annual congress today. It will be the last with a Castro in a top leadership role. Raúl Castro, who is 89, has run the island since his late brother, Fidel, became ill in 2006. Hav...

🔴Thursday April 15th 2021 🔵2021年4月15日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🏃‍♂️🇺🇸🏃‍♂️The final withdrawal: America leaves Afghanistan 最終局：美軍撤離阿富汗 President Joe Biden has officially announced that almost all of the remaining 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan will leave by September 11th, the 20th anniversary of the attacks that led to their deployment. Mr Biden...

🔴Wednesday April 14th 2021 🔵2021年4月14日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦Trouble at the border: will Russia invade Ukraine? 邊境衝突：俄羅斯會入侵烏克蘭嗎？ Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have been growing for weeks following the breakdown of a ceasefire in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which Russia invaded in 2014, and a massing of Russian forces nearby...

🔴Tuesday April 13th 2021 🔵2021年4月13日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🌊🇩🇪🌊The gloves come off: Germany’s next chancellor 暗潮洶湧：德國的下一任總理 The race to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany’s chancellor has suddenly heated up. Mrs Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union and its sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, must choose a joint candidat...

🔴Monday April 12th 2021 🔵2021年4月12日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🕵️🕵️🕵️Stepping out: England’s lockdown 審慎地漸入佳境：英格蘭的封鎖措施 Today England takes another step out of lockdown. Shops, hairdressers and gyms will open for the first time since the start of the year. The country is recording fewer than 2,500 cases of covid-19 a day, down from a peak of nearly 55...

🔴Friday April 9th 2021 🔵2021年4月9日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇸🇬Rules of succession: Singapore’s next prime minister 接班繼承：新加坡的下一任總理 Singaporean politics received a jolt yesterday, when Heng Swee Keat, the heir apparent to the prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, announced that he would not take the top job after all. Succession in Singapore is normally plan...

🔴Thursday April 8th 2021 🔵2021年4月8日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇺🇸Bottling it: corporate America and voting rights 美國喬治亞州的新版投票法：可不可口，可不可樂 Georgia’s new voting law—which opponents say will suppress voting, especially among black voters—has attracted numerous critics since passing last month. But it has also found defenders. On Monday Rand Paul, K...

🔴Wednesday April 7th 2021 🔵2021年4月7日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 📥🇰🇷📤Elections in South Korea: cities of disillusion 南韓大選：展顏消宿怨，一笑泯恩仇 South Koreans go to the polls today to elect new mayors for Seoul and Busan, the country’s biggest cities. The previous mayors, both members of the governing Minjoo party, were accused of sexual harassment by female e...

🔴Tuesday April 6th 2021 🔵2021年4月6日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 💧🏭💧Parched plants: Taiwan’s drought and the semiconductor industry 乾旱的大地：台灣的旱災及其半導體產業 The elements have plagued semiconductor manufacturing this year, exacerbating an already-existing shortage of the all-important silicon chips. A freak winter storm in February temporarily shut down T...

🔴Monday April 5th 2021 🔵2021年4月5日星期一 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🏦💰🏦Spring in their step: World Bank and IMF meetings 當春天來敲門：「世界銀行」與「國際貨幣基金組織」來開會 Covid-19 caused an economic calamity. Today the spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF bring an opportunity to reflect on whether these institutions have done enough to help. In 2020 the World...

🔴Friday April 2nd 2021 🔵2021年4月2日星期五 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🚢🇨🇳😰Water torture: Chinese diplomacy in South-East Asia 水刑伺候：中國在東南亞的 (戰狼) 外交 In a riposte to American efforts to reinvigorate alliances in Asia, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, is on a charm offensive. He has been meeting his counterparts from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and S...

🔴Thursday April 1st 2021 🔵2021年4月1日星期四 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🥀🇫🇷🥀Macron’s lost bet: France shuts down 法式防疫：就沒那麼浪漫了… For the third time since the pandemic began, the French are preparing to go into lockdown. In an address on March 31st, President Emmanuel Macron announced new measures that will come into effect on Saturday. They will restrict all move...

🔴Wednesday March 31st 2021 🔵2021年3月31日星期三 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 🇬🇧💰🇪🇺Taking back control: UK-EU trade after Brexit 奪回主控權：英國脫歐後與歐盟之貿易 Trade analysts will dutifully review the Office for National Statistics’ update on Britain’s balance of payments for the final quarter of 2020 when it is published today. But really they are much more interested in...

🔴Tuesday March 30th 2021 🔵2021年3月30日星期二 🔱Espresso - Today’s agenda 每日濃縮 - 今日頭條 ☠🌍☠A bubbling threat: Islamic State in Africa 不停冒泡般的威脅：伊斯蘭國在非洲 Today Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, is to co-host a virtual meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS, an 83-country group set up in 2014 to combat Islamic State. High on the agenda is Africa. Seve...