Over the past decade, there has been a rush of scholars moving across the Pacific to China, drawn by Beijing’s drive to become a scientific superpower. But President Trump’s return to the White House has turbocharged this effort.

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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

My latest article, “A peacekeeper a day keeps the doctor away? The positive impact of peacekeeping on local-level public health,” is out this week in @iajournal.bsky.social! You can read it at: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

The European Union is forging a new strategic alliance with Latin America www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

BREAKING: Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is retiring.

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The al-Qaeda-linked group has imposed an economic siege on Bamako since September.

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi rose to 117, after the storm carved a dangerous path through the center of the Philippines and caused catastrophic flooding.

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T admin death count

This would have been a great story for the threat down segment of the Colbert Report haha

Generally, when a party is trying to appeal to a new cohort of voters, they don’t send masked men to publicly kidnap and disappear thousands of members of that cohort.

Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care

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Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%. Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early. Must redistribute or risk social disorder.

It’s only a matter of time 🤷‍♀️

Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 66 dead, mainly in Philippine province still recovering from deadly quake

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

"Some 70,000 people have escaped El Fashir since it was captured on 26 October, but fewer than 10,000 people are accounted for in the nearest safe displacement zones." 60,000 civilians missing amid evidence of "killing fields" around the city. Yousra Elbagir reports news.sky.com/story/tens-o...

BREAKING: NBC News projects: Prop 50 Congressional Redistricting has been approved.

So many historic things happening tonight!

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The extra judicial killings will continue until Congress decides to do its job 🤷‍♀️

My husband is one of these people

Hedging has been taking place for a long time and now we can push other countries fully into China’s orbit 🤷‍♀️

Bangladesh’s accession to the UN Water Convention has a ripple effect that could cause problems with India buff.ly/z1BwawE

Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

Major news for transportation funding: Chief US District Judge John McConnell ruled that the US DOT cannot deny transportation funding to states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

They are already making a ton of noise setting up what will clearly be game day or fox pre-fame show outside my office for the Iowa-Oregon game. This is annoying lol.

One. Special. Boy. A 230+ year old experiment with the rule of law & a constitutional republic, all cast aside for the most boringly corrupt & lawless authoritarian one can imagine. Mind boggling how completely every institution has failed to meet the moment.

Hegemonic suicide

10-year Treasury yield falls as investors weigh the state of the U.S. economy

In one of my first articles for my college newspaper, I interviewed someone and then read the article to them over the phone to make sure they approved. My editor called me out after that and told me we don't ask permission to do our jobs. She was right. Anyway then I was put in charge of CBS.

"the documents were so restricted that top Justice Department security officials reacted with surprise to the code names: They had never heard of them before. Some involved special access programs that required the president or a cabinet member to grant approval to view."

WTF. Everything good is being destroyed.

My wife warned me not to watch. As usual, she was right. Like many of you, I tuned in to watch Norah O’Donnell interview Donald Trump on “60 Minutes.” Over the span of 40 minutes, I sat in disbelief as Trump was asked a series of softball questions with little follow-up.

We've got you 👍

This is not about the government shutdown. This is the House refusing to work--lots of plausible theories about why--but the effect is beyond a dysfunctional legislative branch. We're looking at the de facto elimination of the legislative branch. 🚨 Congress nerds--is there a record here to 👀?

Despite the desperate attempts by WAPO and other media outlets to convince them otherwise 😂

Yep, the countries the US puts tariffs on have agency too.

🧵New piece from me @goodauth.bsky.social on risks of striking Venezuela, focused on the added risk from Trump team of loyalists. Hint: it has to do with centralized role of Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, and the incompetence of advisers like SecDef Hegseth. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

At least 36,000 Sudanese have fled since fall of El Fasher to RSF, says UN agency

Hegemonic suicide

Hegemonic suicide

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

What Is the future of diplomacy when going to a sleepy UN meeting on shipping puts you and your family in the cross hairs of the full force of US coercion? As platforms of cooperation become the site of coercion the international system will quickly break down.