Andrew Stokols

Asst Professor urban studies SMU SG. MIT DUSP, @HarvardGSD; lived in PEK, ICN, XIY, SIN, BOS, BKK. Bad at social media!

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

How is Xi remaking China's "urban ideology"? Find out in this new article on Xiong'an 雄安新区 for Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society
https://t.co/0qcUyCrgV6

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Yesss

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

For a scholar who has been so wrong in his predictions so many times, it is amazing to me how much attention Mearsheimer still gets. 1/ THREAD

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Visited two leading drone manufacturers in Shenzhen: Autel and DJI. While DJI is consumer oriented and affected by recent regulations against personal use Autel primarily targets industrial and public sector and consulted for planning of low altitude economy (低空经济）

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

An under-appreciated factor in China’s open-source AI path is that companies just don’t trust cloud providers enough to put their operational data there (as in the U.S)... prefer to build an internal AI on open source rather than expose data to AI or cloud system.

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

NYT suggested itinerary in Thailand is the White Lotus and a reminder of how elitist and out of touch the publication is: proposing the $2000+/night Aman and Capella; what a superficial way to experience the country (although I do like Sukkohtai :-)
https://t.co/k9iEsRjbC3

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

@fncischen @JChengWSJ Time for a new 李克强 index !

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Sad, lot of transport mishaps in Thailand recently (falling debris on HSR construction in NE). While some of Thailand's transit works very well (Sky Train, MRT), the SRT and city buses are both ageing and outdated systems...

[฿คຖgk๐k-฿๐y - หนุ่มบางกอก 🇹🇭 @Bangkokboy17]

𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗞𝗢𝗞 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥:
BANGKOK — A freight train collided with a public transit bus, pinning it against an expressway pillar and triggering a massive fire that killed at least five people.

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Views from Johor's data center boom. AI is not just about LLMs and computation, its fundamentally a resource-intensive and extractive process. And this is on full display in the massive sites being built to power it in places like #Johor #Malaysia

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

EVs, batteries, and data centers: The Transformation of Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor, by @astoks https://t.co/C8QkNErEDI

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Always easy to blame hostile foreign forces for everything…
“China accuses foreign forces of brainwashing youth into 'lying flat'
https://t.co/bnqqJ0ANjt

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

This is so Singapore. Building wouldn’t let grab driver deliver food and leave it at the security desk (because mgmt forbade it) so the driver hung it on this construction sign nearby 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🇸🇬

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

This is so Singapore. Building wouldn’t let grab driver deliver food and leave it at the security desk (because mgmt forbade it) so the driver hung it on this construction sign nearby 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🇸🇬

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Urban studies nerd brag--getting cited by Manuel Castells 🤓

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No thanks

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Patriot passport unlocked. 🦅

Limited edition. Stamped for America 250. 🇺🇸

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

@AirEVthingTRNSP @cathaypacific Nice views of the runway and open ceilingbut somehow I don’t find the design as cozy as the pier and bridge.

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

@squarespace trying to get my email changed which I no longer have access to is proving impossible; you have no customer service, no phone number, and a useless chat function

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Quite disgusting that @CNBC brand studio engaged in a very shameless form of greenwashing by promoting a massive Vinhomes project in Vietnam that is destroying the Can Gio mangrove forests in the name of sustainable development🤮
https://t.co/Wc9STXha6k.

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

Pretty unfair to Nicholas Burns. He spent much of his time in China riding high-speed rail and posting about how good it was. https://t.co/ykr6BeS9w9

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

@HeLiuLeo Yes Shenzhen is definitely exceptional compared to the rest of China and a testbed of market policies especially in its early years. But it was also literally built by SOES-南油 招商局 etc. even Huaqiang Bei was originally parceled out to some military related aviation SOEs.

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

@bryancsk Yes definitely a welfare system + meritocracy. Whether that should be considered “socialism” per Mr Hauge’s assessment is another question. Georgist seems a better label if you have to choose one. And thus collapsing it with W European systems seems simplistic and misleading.

[Andrew Stokols @astoks]

If anything Singapore illustrates that simplistic labels socialist/capitalist are unhelpful. Sg is a hybrid of state and market in many domains. Western countries can learn from this by moving past polarizing arguments of socialism/ capitalism and adopt hybrid approaches.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

It's socialism — not capitalism — that creates prosperity.

Norway has one of the strongest welfare systems in the world.

In Singapore, most people live in housing built by the government.

In Luxembourg, social spending as a share of GDP is among the highest in the EU.

Most countries that score well on this chart do so because they have socialist policies in place that increase social mobility and reduce economic precariousness.