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I took every MENA politics and history course my university offered after 9/11. One of my mentors was a lefty Jew who tried living in Israel. So that meant he

1. I think @KaiserKuo asked a legitimate question about whether this constitutes “foreign election interference.” I lean strong ‘no,’ because it’s too weird to fit in a category that simple.https://twitter.com/comparativist/status

OK. I have a a few minutes to catch up on details. Where do I start?https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1322061899186368512 If you’re like me, your introduction to this saga was Trump accusing Biden of

If I were Taiwan, Korea Vietnam, or Japan: I'd be six months into a plan of poaching groups or faculty and admin* from US/UK/Aus universities popular w/ intl students, getting

1. Like most people, I initially thought the ‘Tigers and Flies’ campaign was using corruption as an excuse to purge challengers and future competitors to Xi and his clique. The

1. From my PoV, the risks of a military move that fails FAR outweighs the rewards of capturing Taiwan. The likelihood of failure is also higher than the likelihood of

I disagree slightly on the ‘no crime’ part, but I watched the FlightRadar24 replay of the GFS jet this morning and it was absolutely predatory. Hours and hours of a

as this seems increasingly serious and battle footage keeps reaching my TL, I've felt compelled to try to figure out who the Baddie is here.... my preliminary conclusion is that

Enrique is interesting b/c nobody knows exactly where he was from. Magallen bought him as a slave in Malacca and he’s assumed to be Filipino because he could converse with

1. 8/31 is the anniversary of a tipping point moment in the information ecosystem of #HongKongProtests.https://youtu.be/pBy78fz4PoU 2. The facts as documented are extremely damning. Before 8/31, getting past the MTR

Forcing myself look at intl COVID metrics every week or so. I usually don’t look at deaths, but... this isn’t what I was expecting. Look for the Philippines. All of

Being in Hong Kong at this very moment feels like living somewhere that just received a ‘guilty’ verdict but you have to wait another few hours to know what the