#China

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5This very interesting article by Ren Zeping and colleagues notes that during China’s planned economy period, while the northern provinces experienced an economic boom in heavy industry, “a blessing can

Maximilian Friedrich

mfriedrichARK

Last week, Ant Group (the company behind Alipay) filed for potentially the largest IPO ever.If that doesn't make you listen, consider that in 2019, Alipay's payment volume was $16 trillion

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Profpatsch

With the US turning into a madhouse,Russia being stuck in a cold-war expansionist mindset,and China being a dystopic nightmare:Only a socialist-democratic united Europe can be a working alternative model. 1/n

Stephen Walt

stephenWalt

A short thread on the significance on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UAE and Israel. My take: It’s not meaningless, but neither is it a transformative, landmark event.

Chris Minister of Smartarsery

Lumberist

Read a lot about this UN agenda 2030, seems heavy on the gender equality & wealth transfer, reshaping society in multiple ways, we can’t solve most of these issues in

William Yang

WilliamYang120

In the latest issue of the @globaltaiwan brief, I wrote about #Taiwan’s opposition party @kuomintang’s attempt to launch a series of fundamental reform, including its four proposals to revamp the

"The Cuban"1️⃣7️⃣🇺🇸

the_cuban17

All of our political lives we put our faith in our elections.When we lost, we analyzed our mistakes and sought lessons for how next time to run a better campaign.

Development Reimagined™

DevReimagined

Our NEW #INFOGRAPHIC of the month is here! As usual our focus is #Africa's response to #COVID19 - incl. data on #vaccines, #testing & #socialdistancing. The headline:25 African countries don't

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Unlike Mr. Garnaut, Im not an expert on Xi Jinping thinking or his secret plotting to rule the world. So I can only judge the Xi vs Stalin analogy by

Simon Lester

snlester

Some brief thoughts on the choice of Katherine Tai as the next U.S. Trade Rep.: https://ielp.worldtradelaw.net/2020/12/katherine-tai-the-next-us-trade-representative.html 1/ A little while ago, I said we needed someone who is "knowledg

swarnim bharat

a_sandhan

Everyone is surprised how this country survived last 70 yrsMajority of editors n intellectuals predicted Balkanization of India after collapse of USSRBharatvarasha is till intact n progressing wellFew may know

Dean Carlos 🇺🇲🇻🇦

thedeanwrites

The concept of "white privilege" coined by Du Bois, developed by Peggy McIntosh, and mainstreamed by BLM is useless, if not dangerous, resulting most often in self-hatred on the part

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TheWiseOwl_AZ

1. Some highlights of the Juan O’Savin interview:We were cyber attacked by SolarWinds.The software system was developed by our own Intelligence Agencies to protect the American people but it’s being

Ingrid M

iMusing

good morninghappy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are ABC politics editor Andrew Probyn, former Liberal Party (Peter Costello) media advisor Niki Savva and Peter Hartcher, international editor at ninefax (chaired by

Mr. Douglas McGarrett

ltc_hicks

Wie gestern bereits erwähnt- Michèle Flournoy könnte die erste Frau sein, die das Pentagon leitet. Folgendes würde sich ändern. Am 20. Juni 2016 hielt der damalige Vizepräsident Joe Biden bei

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

The trouble really is that our security & policy establishment have never thought strategically about trade, employment, growth & financing of deficits.Nor do our economists understand that, given hegemony, trade

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