“China’s rise reflects a specific combination of starting conditions, reform choices and economic integration not easily replicable; it has also generated huge costs, in inequality, in environmental damage, and in repression, that official accounts systematically obscure.”
The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency open.substack.com/pub/persua…
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The Hyundai plant raid in Georgia exposes a contradiction. The Trump administration wants to restore U.S. manufacturing through foreign investment and technology, but immigration rules choke off the skilled labor needed to get these investments off the ground. Short 🧵
Brief thoughts from me about South Korea's martial law fiasco in @east_asia_forum
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law has devastated South Korea’s reputation but not its democracy.
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We argue that South Korea will be a key partner for AUKUS Pillar 2 and is exactly the sort of state Australia needs buy-in from to maximize AUKUS’ appeal and effectiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Thanks to @NicholasDanfort for the fantastic edits.
“Expanding ties between Australia and South Korea is an opportunity to bring skeptics on board with the AUKUS deal,” write @AriusDerr and Hannah Cho ow.ly/1cIy30sHosF
A big thanks to @matisaksk for inviting me on his show to talk about all things Russia, Ukraine and North Korea!
Can #NorthKorea afford to send a large number of soldiers to #Ukraine's battlefield to help #Russia? Listen to another episode of my #podcast #TheGlobalAgora. I talked to @AriusDerr from @nknewsorg. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s… #Putinswar
"A great virtue of America’s security network is that Washington can summon global responses to pressing challenges. The flip side is that regionalizing US foreign policy could, ironically, undercut America’s ability to out-compete Beijing." bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…
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I will die on this hill. Living abroad for 10+ years, I'm fully on board with the metric system for weight and distance. Temperature? No way.
Sorry, world, this is not up for debate. Fahrenheit is just better for daily temperature.
Both Celsius and Fahrenheit acknowledge the utility of measuring across 0-100 scales—Celsius just does it for water. But that’s useless for daily temperature, bc the air never boils.
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North Korea has accepted the reality that unification with South Korea while Kim Jong Un remains in power is impossible. This does not mean war is any more likely than before. My latest for @east_asia_forum eastasiaforum.org/2024/03/11…
"When people predict a high degree of existential risk from AI, I don’t actually think arguing back on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely" marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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U.S. Policy Should Reflect Its Own Quiet Acceptance of a Nuclear North Korea carnegieendowment.org/2022/1… via @CarnegieEndow
Proposed law would penalize popular content providers and discourage investment, while abandoning net neutrality
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I argue that while China may not like North Korea's nuclear weapons, intensifying competition with the US has altered its strategic calculus. Xi Jinping will not support new sanctions or penalties without major concessions from US, which are unlikely.
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It’s Time to Accept That North Korea Has Nuclear Weapons nytimes.com/2022/10/13/opini…
