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Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ There is this technocratic idea that Economics is a scientific discipline like Physics. Not true.Subject to the "conservation law" that the world cannot consume what it has not produced

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. So what now?Long time followers will know I've been pretty relentless banging the #COVID19 drum. Pandemics ruin lives and livelihoods. This virus should have been taken far more seriously

Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷

joshuawongcf

[Vlog with @SunnyCheungky: https://youtu.be/bAiba7SXiTA ]1/ Success of HK & Taiwan in containing the spread of coronavirus, was heavily due to distrust towards HKGov & China after tragic SARS outbreak in 2003.

Mark Warschauer

markwarschauer

OK, peeps, we need your help!!We are the parents of kids across the country, and we need your help in getting them safely back to school.A short thread 1/ Our

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mapmakerdavid

Watching "We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka". In my home island, Luzon (the Philippines), we call it "bangka". To learn wayfinding and seafaring in our sea of islands would be a

Ed H. Chi

edchi

[I don't normally post personal updates on Twitter, but I want to honor my father's memory after burying his ashes yesterday.]A thread.About two months ago, my father passed away after

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Ready? Here is the latest Google Mobility from best to worst for Asia, USA, and Europe versus the base line (before Covid-19).Took an average of retail, grocery, transit & workplace

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LeniDiamond

Influential academic journal, Dushu, publishes a daring essay, "How to Avoid Falling into the 4 Traps," by noted liberal economist Prof Zhang Weiying. The oblique attack on Xi comes w/

Chris Arnade 🐢

Chris_arnade

Thank you everyone for your kind comments, prays, & thoughts. Frank was 70, the oldest of the seven of us. He died after months of dealing with an infection gone

Alexander Panetta

Alex_Panetta

Well, Washington DC just bought itself a couple more weeks of isolation and more crowded hospitals. The wharf yesterday. . (The fish market has been sealed off today, as shown

oafbot

oafbot

I vote this guy from the “Trans-Humanist Party” the most interesting candidate currently running in the Tokyo governor’s election. The party is self-professed as “Patriotic Left Wing”, but his platform

Jerome Cohen 孔傑榮(柯恩)

jeromeacohen

Here's a very sobering report on “tip-offs” in Mainland China. Yet it only scratches the surface of daily realities in Chinese law schools and apparently the situation is no better

Andy Baird

andy_engineer

Reaching the 100 day milestone is awesome but also bittersweet. Thailand has done a superb job of managing the health crisis, especially as it was the first country outside of

Opinion Bakery

IndiaSpeaksPR

It will soon be 3 months since COVID shut down the world. A lifetime worth of important insights can be gleaned from how countries reacted to it. Here are a

Andrew Szarejko

Szarejko

I’m not sure that there is a “definitive” history on this topic, but John Bew's "Realpolitik: A History" is a good place to start. A thread:https://twitter.com/AHKydd/status/1390145276086824961 In that book—an early,

💉💉 Dr. Trey is Vaccinated

Comparativist

No one who follows me would call me a China apologist or friend of the CCP. This entire thing could have been contained to a few neighborhoods in Wuhan had