Richard Chen

I’ll stick my neck out a little here and make a call Barring major injuries, Reed Sheppard will make an all star team before his second contract ends

Angelica is in Türkiye! 🇹🇷 Just for an extended layover. My flight is tomorrow and I am not leaving the airport hotel area. But goodness…it’s already been an adventure. The people here are very kind but also extremely inefficient. It took me like half an hour to get a bag of cherries. I didn’t mean to get so many but the grandma just dumped them into my bag and it was a lot of cherries but only works out to US 3-4 dollars. Cherries are super expensive in Taiwan and those are sooooo good! I think I psyoped myself into thinking Istanbul is going to be a highly cosmopolitan westernized place because that’s all the Turkish ppl I know but then of course those are all the Turkish ppl that would leave Turkey. Most women are wearing veils which really surprised me. Nobody spoke English in the fruit store or the borek store. Anyhow, I’m on my way to the fantabulous @dalkeybookfest where I will be a speaker on Taiwan, China and nuclear. Maybe I’ll grab a selfie with Salman Rushdie! And Lionel Shriver which I am a huge fan of is also going to be there. And of course I cannot wait to hang out again with all the ppl I know from @kilkenomics like @davidmcw the host with the most and @SonyKapoor and too many others! I can already taste the pints! Many of you might know I am a big Ottoboo so I am certainly not going to go back to Taipei without staying a few more days in Istanbul on the way back. But I’ll be in a downtown hotel in Sultanahmet where I can explore at my leisure!

China won the most gold medals in the last Olympics India won 0

Actually, the next 60 days are going to be an exquisite lesson in exactly what levers of power the Israeli government *does* have in Washington.

Finished the Water Margin and genuinely it’s so good that Chinese people used to be able to say “All under heaven is in chaos” and proceed to just crash the fuck out like that

@macrotradecn 太平天國內亂跟出逃西安呢

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Yum China is acquiring Pizza Hut China business for $1.2 billion from parent company I see less and less Pizza Hut restaurants around China but i'm sure the people at Yum will find a way to turn around what i think is a declining business

If I had said "Japan in 1941-1942 shows why operational successes do not amount to strategic victory," I doubt people would be upset. Apply this to Iran, and people both left and right get bug-eyed. This is why war colleges use historical cases: To foster dispassionate analysis

Mark my words…Euro-regulators are going to start cockblocking their startups from using Chinese models for « data and privacy concerns » « tech sovereignty » blah blah blah. And it will just be one more insult as they are stuck on expensive American models that can get nerfed at anytime and domestic models that are way behind. Meanwhile, American startups will keep using the Chinese open source models when it makes sense.

@ABlinken I will confess that i struggle reading anything you write without the thought of 20,000 dead Palestinian children in my head.

Traffic visible in the Strait of Hormuz via MarineTraffic.com over the last 24 hours remains steady, with all transits, both inbound and outbound, observed utilizing the Iranian traffic separation scheme.

Warsh went hawkish to see if Trump would give him $300b🤣

@EvanFeigenbaum Isn’t there a good case to be made that not only are their hoards of unserious people on all sides but that in many cases they start to influence the decisions to various degrees?

Weird take. If anyone in Washington thought India was going to be America's proxy against China, they were delusional from the start. And if anyone in India thought the U.S. was just going to walk away from a relationship with China wholesale, that was pretty bad analysis too. But I don't know any serious folks on either side who believed either of those two propositions.

Every Republican who ever said anything against the JCPOA, myself included, looks very silly today.

Grasping the sheer scale and intensity of the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) - history’s largest and last pre-industrial war - is so hard. ​The best analogy I can come up with: ​Imagine if Mormon prophet Joseph Smith had stayed on the Erie Canal. His followers, armed mostly with spears and swords, rise up and capture the entire US Midwest, seizing the nation's agricultural breadbasket. They systematically slaughter anyone from New York City and starve out huge towns like Chicago. The war kills 5% to 7.5% of the population, double the actual US Civil War. ​Then, right as the Federal government completely collapses, the British Empire sails steam-powered gunboats up the Hudson River. They arm a ruthless mercenary force with state-of-the-art rifles to crush the uprising: not to save the US, but to keep Wall Street and the Atlantic trade routes open. ​Meanwhile, in a completely separate conflict(!), official British and French armies sail up the Potomac and loot and burn the Smithsonian, the Capitol and Mount Vernon. ​The Taiping Rebellion killed 20 to 30 million people, more than WW1. It was World War China.

Extraordinary how much of the US commentariat doesn't understand that you have to take a "bad deal" after you lose a war

What if we just see the document? It’s a short diplomatic agreement that has been signed. It’s weird that it’s not available.

Men who use ipads with a goofy little keyboard instead of a laptop are weak and easily dominated

@RadioFreeTom Tom, he's convinced me you're right wing Nazi scum like.... Hasan Piker and Mamdani.