Thanks @corrientecalida.com for picking up one of my articles and translating it into Spanish

Don't get too excited--I won't name names but some of the left congressional candidates this year reject the labor theory of value

On @ezraklein.bsky.social, @mattduss.bsky.social plants the flag: • Progressive FP’s precondition is to break with Biden personnel and their aim of reviving US hegemony • Its substance is solidarity: reform so different nationalities are not pitted against each other, so all workers enjoy security

GLOBAL MINIMUM WAGE MENTIONED

"The US now appears to control all the major power blocs in Venezuela.... Venezuela’s new acting President has become the local enforcer of the US National Security Strategy and the Trump Corollary." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bol...

I'm thrilled to be writing GREEN GIANT for PublicAffairs.

"Peru’s June presidential runoff is drawing attention in China, where analysts are watching whether the next government will reshape ties with Beijing and place new pressure on Chancay, a Chinese-operated megaport" chinaglobalsouth.com/2026/05/29/p...

Some nasty capital flight from the economy of the world's 4th most populous country Prabowo: “The markets are not understanding me” 😬

"The workers have arrived!" Beijing 1989

“Realizing a progressive hukou abolition would require immense political force to overcome resistance from privileged urbanites and capitalists addicted to super-exploited labor. That force cannot come from society, as social movements, and labor movements in particular, are anathema to the Party.”

earnest answer: a full 15 years of treating the use of DJI/consumer drones as an intelligence threat while trying to spin up $$$$ secure supply chain alternatives for cheap quadcopters meant the US fully missed how low low cost and mass production allows for innovation and iteration at scale

Socialist realism with consumerist characteristics

I'm no military expert but it seems that both the US and Israel have recently been caught by surprise by drone warfare and how is that possible

I agree: "In this, a paradox is hard to miss: for all its autocratic and repressive tendencies at home, China has been a team player abroad, championing what many would consider progressive changes in key areas of global governance." @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

Tim Barker is correct, for better and for worse phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...

Haven't read yet and I can't speak to the other topics but Ching Kwan Lee and Zhang Yueran are GOAT scholars in their respective fields

It can be easy to forget how significant Jubilee 2000-inspired debt relief was. Bono, Muhammad Ali, and Pope John Paul teaming up! Over $100 billion in debt forgiven for 39 countries to enable anti-poverty spending! My new blog is on HIPC/MDRI and what we can learn from them

This place is a small echo chamber but it did contain some well informed hot takes about the new hukou guidelines

There aren't many details - it's a sort of broad aspirational policy document, although there are a few concrete positives like abolishing hukou restrictions on participation in social insurance where you work, and delinking hukou and medical benefits www.mee.gov.cn/zcwj/gwywj/2...

We're looking out for Chinese commentary. It sounds positive, but still very early days, and hard to tell how far it'll end up going. Doesn't sound like there's new central funding to actually pay for it—local governments, many already struggling, are supposed to figure it out for themselves.

Been burned too many times, but I will feel encouraged when I see Beijinger parents protesting against migrant kids taking local gaokao, that's when you'll know it's real

Great @poltheoryother.bsky.social ep with @jwdwerner.bsky.social and @tobitac.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/c...

I joined @tobitac.bsky.social talking to @redandinexpert.bsky.social on where US–China relations stand in the glorious new era of constructive strategic stability.

Any good takes on the new guidelines from China's State Council easing hukou restrictions? english.news.cn/20260522/0b0...

My review of Eswar Prasad's Doom Loop, a book that isn't very good but vividly shows how and why economists are thoroughly washed. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

“Trump agreed to stability” is a hilarious claim actually

"'constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability' is not a slogan" is in fact the kind of thing you say about slogans

Today, we’re launching our first paper from the Green Planning Commission — Economic Coordination and the Limits of Markets — as an analytical foundation for why the next progressive agenda must be built around public coordination. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

I think a number of people are exaggerating the chances that things they oppose will happen at the Trump-Xi summit because "this is very unlikely to happen but just in case here is my 2000 word argument for why Trump shouldn't do it" is a less appealing read

US Chamber of Commerce calls for coordinated G7 action to respond to competitive threats from China Of course under Trump the opposite is happening www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So the Trump administration is not only going after Chinese scientists, they are now going after Americans who defend them. Who would have thought?

I agree with Bessner's point about ideology here. But he envisions the US allowing China to claim a sphere of influence in E/SE Asia. I don't think that's realistic because of the tremendous consequences for competition between US and Chinese capitals www.theideasletter.org/essay/power-...

I looked at how much the New York Times covered different countries in 2025, compared to those countries' populations. The bars for many lower-income countries are functionally invisible—much like their citizens are to readers of The New York Times

I’ve seen like a half dozen TikToks freaking out about hantavirus and not one addressed the R0 and there is just no excuse for that

dems should explicitly pitch "reducing" US international aid to only 5% of GDP, a reasonable proportion that the median voter would approve of

"Lack of financing is one of the biggest barriers to moving away from fossil fuels... Experts say the problem is rooted in how the global financial system is structured." apnews.com/article/clim...

"We may have, in fact, reached 'peak competition' under the last administration, as a senior Biden official put it in one of the private roundtables we hosted this spring." @jessicacweiss.bsky.social www.sinicapodcast.com/p/transcript...

Morgenthau's inaugural address at Bretton Woods: "Economic aggression can have no other offspring than war.... We know now that economic conflict must develop when nations endeavor separately to deal with economic ills which are international in scope."

Have been very slowly reading my way thru The Making of the English Working Class and I think Thompson’s take on the Luddites is lovely. Here he responds to the accusation that they were reactionary and driven solely by nostalgia

We need a Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Economic Weapons

Rumors of the death of Chinese open-weight AI have been greatly exaggerated. My latest after the release of DeepSeek V4. herecomes.transpacifica.net/p/death-of-c...

US political thinking overwhelmingly cannot accept the rise of China. The EU is in danger of following. What stops this becoming a bigger crisis is that companies are by and large ignoring governments. But that of course brings its own problems. www.ft.com/content/abde...

“Once a driver of stable employment, jobs in the arms sector have declined even as military spending soars.” @tkbarnes.bsky.social exposes the broken relationship between the Pentagon’s soaring budget and secure jobs. transitionsecurity.org/labor-of-the...

War is creating a global south food and fuel crisis exacerbated by major cuts to foreign aid by top global north donors made in part to fund rearmament in preparation for more war

This is totally on brand for Stoller because the return of the small business (which will never be Big and therefore Bad) is the return of the family business is the return of the good father

Global economic apartheid

The coming global food crisis ft.trib.al/hZg0yxi

David Brophy responds tempestmag.org/2026/04/dism...

i think vance’s great asset is that the press likes him and sees him as one of their own

Mercifully few takes on the Cheng-Xi meeting on here