Excited for the new publication in @TheChinaJournal w my grad student and soon incoming @Uva_EAC post-doc @WendyZhou502 on #Chinese public sentiments about #Russia's war in #Ukraine. Free copy for first 50 clicks here: https://t.co/gBGDl94Ymi. Thread with our arguments below
Genova, i have no words what just happened. I saw people dancing from all ages. Everyone smiling and dancing to the beat. Honestly, the whole thing is making me a bit emotional. These are very powerful moments. I’m beyond honored to have been able to play for you today ❤️
The absurd Orban claims of fraud and foreign interference are gonna be a good preview of GOP claims of fraud and foreign interference after the mid-terms.
I have a PhD in political science from Oxford, focused on US foreign policy; worked as a State Dept. official in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East; and wrote a celebrated foreign policy book taught at universities like Princeton. That's why I get geopolitical questions.
@MariaRepnikova Thanks so much for this generous praise, Maria! I really appreciate it! As I said elsewhere, I hope readers will enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed reading the novels.
Iranians are forming human chains on bridges — standing together against threats of destruction.
This is today on the White Bridge in Ahvaz, Iran.
Trump and Israel’s criminal war has united all of Iranian society — every faith, every class — in defense of their homeland.
Thrilled to share that my new book Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism (Columbia UP) has come out. This is the first book studying China's Internet literature, esp. alt-history fiction from the perspective of authoritarian legitimation.
My new book, Competing for Soft power: #China's Image-Making in #Africa now has a cover and endorsements and is available for pre-order: https://t.co/WdYIZqK8wA
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
Through it all, I kept my @washingtonpost subscription, mostly to support the brave and important work that its reporters—both my friends and people I'd never bet—were still doing. After today's unconscionable firings, I've canceled my subscription. Because fuck that.
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion
Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million
Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million
Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion
Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million
Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5
@JeffBezos
Absolutely. Makes me think about a recent conference I went to on oligarchy, where I learned that modern billionaires have no interest in society or in public good.
always bears repeating that this is NOT ultimately a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.