@james_acton32 @WSJ @wrmead Great thread by James Acton, and he could have been much harsher while still being fair
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George Perkovich
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George Perkovich
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VP Carnegie Endowment, covering nuclear policy & tech/international affairs. Focus on U.S., China and South Asia, Iran.
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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. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
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Once again , thank Mike M for setting things straight
Mike Mazarr@MMazarr
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 ...
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“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. ft.com/content/d859f1…
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Another compelling thread
Mike Mazarr@MMazarr
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 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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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
Richard Walker@rbsw
Scholz quotes India’s foreign minister @DrSJaishankar - Europe has to get out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems Jaishankar is not in Munich to hear him - but Scholz due to visit India soon
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A beautiful and humorous thread by James Acton. Read it and smile
(((James Acton)))@james_acton32
<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)
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Indeed, excellent work by Carnegie’s Gavin Wilde, Nick Beecroft and Jon Bateman
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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 theathletic.com/4153452/2023/0…
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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/
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An unexpected farewell from an amazing @WhiteHouse team. I will never ever ever forget this. I love these people and all they have done to deliver for the American people.
Remi Yamamoto Archived@RemiYamamoto46
A grateful White House says goodbye to @RonaldKlain. We love you, Ron. 💗
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@MMazarr This was an excellent paper when it came out, more obviously applicable now
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I offered some tentative thoughts about it, from a generalist's standpoint (deriving lessons from history and judgments about PRC intent), here:
csis.org/analysis/us-ch…
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Not a new phenomenon--goes back to multiple US-PRC crises. Another reminder that crisis management with China is likely to be a radically different, and in some ways more challenging, enterprise than it was with the Soviet Union
ProfTalmadge@ProfTalmadge
"The most worrisome feature of the whole incident: Biden tried to consult with Chinese counterparts. Either the Chinese didn't answer the phone [or] said they needed more time. Our ability to coordinate during a crisis is very poor." @SusanShirk1 @NewsHour
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THIS! Thank you Max Boot. It’s been embarrassing .
The hysteria over China’s spy balloon is dangerous and unwarranted washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
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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
Milan Vaishnav@MilanV
1/ This week, @CPR_India & @CarnegieEndow are launching a new working paper series on 'cooperative federalism.' The idea is to provoke thoughtful engagement with the dynamics of contemporary federalism in India cprindia.org/workingpapers/…
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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.
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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. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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