Much wisdom here. Bravery too in this political environment. Will pols listen?
#The U.S. should deter — not provoke — Beijing over Taiwan. Here’s how. https://t.co/njr7T2XY95
Understand the desire for a more rapid + complete Ukrainian win. It's an honorable goal. Cannot at all imagine how it makes sense to push NATO chips onto the table now. We decided (rightly) that interests vital enough to risk nuclear war were not at stake. The persistence of ...
“For Russia, China is the major lifeline that keeps the economy afloat.” Good dispatch on the upcoming Wang Yi visit to Moscow by @maxseddon & @leahyjoseph in the @FT. https://t.co/VzqSV8GadR
Stumbled across this brilliant @JamesFallows piece from over a decade ago, which still counts as a prescient and still very relevant diagnosis of the master problem facing American dynamism, coherence, and competitiveness: Governance, broadly defined
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Important idea for the US to internalize: US strategy won't be sustainable if we're seen to be in the business of persuading or forcing others to solve our problems. The trick is to help others address their challenges--and tailor the resulting efforts to serve US interests too
<THREAD>Some personal recollections of Catherine Kelleher--surely the only person ever to have met both the satirist Tom Lehrer and the long-time dictator of Turkmenistan, Turkmenbasi.
Catherine has just passed away. She was a legend. (1/n)
I remember it well. Staggering performance.
Marvin Gaye’s iconic NBA All-Star Game national anthem: ‘He turned that thing into his own’ - The Athletic https://t.co/rfW43a6982
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Recent data on 🇷🇺 oil exports contains some unexpected revelations on who/what was really pushing the Urals price down (spoiler: not Western sanctions or boycotts), and who benefitted from it. 🧵 based on analysis of my new @CarnegieEndow colleague @SergeyVakulenk0 1/
Thrilled to launch this new series with @MilanV@CarnegieEndow on a topic close to my heart- federalism . We hope this will provoke wider debate on the institutional architecture needed for negotiating and deepening federal relations. @CPR_India
If you prefer not to think about the nuclear war (the way we close our eyes in front of something scary), it does not make it less likely. In fact, it makes it more likely b/c warmongers do not have to answer any Qs until it is too late.
The logic here: We've been lucky so far, so let's push it. It hasn't happened yet, so clearly there's no danger.
It hasn't happened yet BECAUSE Putin has no good way, but if sufficiently desperate, he may try a bad way.
And nukes are not the only option for risky escalation.
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Great piece on state gov't TikTok bans. Largely performative, the bans do create headaches for educators and other officials seeking to engage youth and the public. The bans result from—and contribute to—our frenzied, fact-free discourse on Chinese tech. https://t.co/XThkS9tCAc