high pants: another thing Trump and Xi have in common.

Tanking a 10+ year gaining economy in only 6 weeks has to be a record for any President

While Trump and Vance were berating Zelensky for not wanting to make peace, Russia was busy attacking Odessa kyivindependent.com/russian-miss...

My article on China's coordination of AI and energy infrastructure for Jamestown Foundation #China #AI #data #cloud jamestown.org/program/ener...

How splitting Russia and China is unrealistic and unlike situation faced by Nixon in 1970s 1. There is currently no real animus between Russia /China 2. Putin and Xi have agreed on strategic objective of weakening U.S hegemony 3. There's no ideological tension between Russia/China as in 1970s

X locked me out of my account while I was posting an article criticizing Trump/Elon. I think this is the last straw with X. Everyone delete your accounts and boycott X!!

Disgusted by this as a Fulbright alum. But not surprised as the Trump admin systematically destroys every program that strengthens the U.S. and its relations with the world. For what? tax cuts for the wealthiest .001%

Over the weekend Steve Bannon: - Proclaimed support for Israel - Did a sieg heil salute - Issued threats against progressive American Jews. Bannon and his actions epitomize what it means to be an antisemitic supporter of Israel in our government.

For all his claims that he is a "builder" Trump can only destroy. Instead of actually building infrastructure Trump has decided to try to kill existing infrastructure projects. So much for infrastructure week! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

Some more talking points for those that may find themselves in conversation with a Muskite

You can't just get rid of a government agency without congressional approval, how is Musk getting away with this? www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

DC peeps, and all eastern seaboarders that can make it, get in here

An important post by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social --Trump has no strategy other than to overwhelm and move as fast as possible, and the failure to think strategically or act slowly could be their undoing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

New article: I propose the concept of "landscapes of state capitalism" theorizing unique spatial & aesthetic qualities of industrial/ innovation zones built by state-owned developers, based on research in Singapore, China (Xiong'an), and Thailand. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How does a new four branch archival project of Xi Jinping aim to rewrite Chinese history--find out in my new Sinocities post: sinocities.substack.com/p/xi-jinping...

Anyone interested in why the Ukraine war happened should listen to this talk by @luciankim.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb2p...

Announcing a recent article on "extended state infrastructure power" in Environment and Planning A, how do countries caught between U.S. and China (in this case Thailand and Taiwan) navigate networked competition through their own infrastructure projects? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....