Antoine Roth

Genevois expatrié; Assistant Professor, Tohoku University; Author: China's hierarchical vision of order in Asia Sino-Japanese relation

[Antoine Roth @AntoineRoth]

Very happy to announce that my article on "Face-work in East Asia's diplomatic culture" has just been published in the East Asia journal (and in open access!)

Link in the next post.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

These are known as "concentration camps".

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

Great piece - the derisking philanthropy is even weaker than the derisking state in crafting nature as asset class

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

War crime complicity is what happens when you let yourself be a sub-imperial power amid a political crisis of capitalism. And this ain’t the half of it

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[Antoine Roth @AntoineRoth]

@Ethanfracisco @claireforny @DarializaforNY @MelatKirosCO A beacon of hope in the deep, deep, dark, dark pit America is in atm

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

"you're absolutely right, good catch. Your head shape isn't utterly bizarre and off-putting."

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Tonight, @MelatKirosCO, tomorrow @OliverALarkin.

The movement moves from New York to Colorado to FLORIDA!

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

Anyone recall the UN declaring US-Israeli aggression on Iran illegal? Get the fuck out of here.

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

That JD Vance interview with Michael Knowles was really bad. Admitting he and Trump just did the MOU to “build up our stocks” and “we want to play more games” with Iran and “have more cards to play” when the 60 days are up. You realize Iran sees these interviews also?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “Democrats feared that Zohran Mamdani would win and succeed and then they would have to face the very same demands: why can’t you be like him? Their entire theory for maintaining power revolves around being slaves to corporations, placing the interests of corporations and the super wealthy above your interests. Every single victory for democratic socialism destroys that narrative”

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

did something happen??

[Rui Ma @ruima]

The big mystery for me is why are there people who think a massive & now much better resourced nation like China which focuses relentlessly on hardcore math physics and chemistry education is going to be helpless & hopelessly behind when it comes to AI and semiconductors

Are these things not literally math physics and chemistry

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Condolences to @AIPAC and the Dem establishment in DC.

Jan 2027 on the Hill with all the newbies will be fascinating to watch.

[Daniel Forti @FortiD]

🚨: the @UN Fifth Committee has agreed to a major change in the methodology for the return of credits to member states.

For the next 4 years, the UN will return credits based on actual money collected, not budgeted.

This saves the UN $1.5 billion over the next 12 months.

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

What I find puzzling is not the adoption of a "managed trade" framework by previously liberal champions of globalization.
But that Krugman & others do not seem to know that the European auto industry has already made a choice to not die
How? By partnering with Chinese EV firms!

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Neera Tanden is arguing a Democrat should focus on fighting Trump rather than factional fights.I'm kind of speechless.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

PEOPLE WONDER WHY CHANGE NEVER COMES, ITS BECAUSE CORPORATIONS DUMP MILLIONS INTO RACES SMEARING CANDIDATES WHO WILL ACTUALLY FIGHT FOR YOU & MOST PPL EITHER DONT VOTE OR BOOMERS OFTEN GET DUPED BY THE ADS AND VOTE FOR RW DEMS. HAPPENED TO BERNIE TWICE!! WE SAY NO MORE!!!

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

Also difficult not to notice darkly that the birthright citizenship ruling also allows the court to retain a thin skein of legitimacy in the eyes of liberals, while it continues to assiduously hollow out the substantive basis of political citizenship.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Gadi Eisenkot has officially entered the arena as a candidate for Prime Minister. He has a good shot, with increasingly strong poll numbers. As the son of Moroccan immigrants he could be the first ever Mizrahi Prime Minister. His popularity was boosted by losing his son and nephew in Gaza.

On the face of it, his politics are far more appealing than Netanyahu to the West. He has opposed building new settlements in Gaza, come out against settler terrorism in the West Bank.

But his ascent is dangerous. Eisenkot is exactly the kind of guy who can whitewash Israeli crimes in Gaza and its occupation. Giving the world just enough to ignore what happened while providing no actual change in policy:

1) He has said that the idea of a Palestinian state after October 7th is "irrelevant" and would be a "reward for terrorism."

2) He invented the so called "Dahiyeh Doctrine," which states that Israel will use "disproportionate power" against any village or civilian area from which rockets are fired leading to the deaths of thousands of civilians.

3) During his time as chief of staff he oversaw operations in Gaza that killed thousands of civilians. He has never expressed regret for any of it. He frames the bloodshed as professional necessity, not moral failure.

4) He opposes a state commission of inquiry into the conduct of the war itself. His party platform calls for an inquiry into the October 7 failures, but not into how Israel fought afterward. The distinction matters. One investigates what was done to Israelis. The other would investigate what Israelis did.

5) His objection to Netanyahu has never been about Palestinian lives. It has been about competence and strategy. He left the war cabinet over the absence of an endgame, not the absence of restraint.

6) He has attacked Netanyahu for bowing too readily to American ceasefire pressure, meaning his complaint is that Israel stopped fighting too soon.

This is the trap. The West wants a respectable Israeli leader it can do business with. Eisenkot offers the packaging without the substance. He says the right things about settlers and settlements, things that cost him nothing, while holding the line on every position that actually shapes Palestinian life. No state. No reckoning. No regret.

A leader who tortures his conscience in public is easier to forgive than one who never had to. Eisenkot is the second kind. He carries personal grief, genuine and heavy, and that grief becomes a shield. It makes the man sympathetic and the policy invisible. The world will see a bereaved father and a reluctant general, and it will stop looking.

That is the danger. Not that Eisenkot is Netanyahu. That he is not, and that the difference will be enough to make genocide respectable again.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Ukraine is reported to be systematically targeting fluid catalytic cracking units at Russian oil refineries, aiming to destroy complex machinery that Russia can't repair itself and may take years to replace. As a result, the current fuel crisis may be a prolonged one. ⬇️