Reupping because washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

And A Hue We Go!

My thoughts on the brutal takedown of Vuong Dinh Hue, who had been the leading candidate to succeed Nguyen Phu Trong as CPV Party Chief at the 14th. I’ve never seen #Vietnamese party politics as this vicious or institutionally damaging. rfa.org/english/commen…

One last hot take: this is another indication that Xi does not anticipate fighting a large-scale war in the near-term. There are other, stronger indications of this, but it's still a useful datapoint.

More here on separate, stronger indications of this: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

That so many people buy into this reflects:

(i) how we as a country are now so far removed from manufacturing that we understand so little of it (as demonstrated here and many similar replies), and

(ii) the difference between ideas and execution.

Ah TNI. Never change.

Reupping...

Former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer recently had a piece in The Economist on trade and tariffs. It may be the most far-fetched piece the magazine has ever published. I can't say for sure because I haven't read every issue since 1843. THREAD 🧵
economist.com/by-invitation/…

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Two prominent PKU economists, Huang Yiping and Lu Feng, are warning that Beijing's industrial policy 'is at the heart of US concerns about Chinese overcapacity and the European Union’s anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicle imports.'

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I would laugh if this entire thing weren’t so sad. And to everyone who confidently/vehemently claimed back then that this was all a set-up by the Chinese government, and that there was no substance whatsoever to the charges: you know who you are. theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

THREAD: Speculation has started in earnest about what will happen this year to the tradition of classified intelligence briefings for the major party presidential candidates.

And a lot of what’s being said is wrong, or at least incomplete.

Here’s ground truth —>

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Sure, just destroy everything that isn't garbage. For sustaining members: good luck turning off your monthly contributions.

This week's Trade Fact looks at steel and aluminum tariffs six years later: progressivepolicy.org/blogs/trade-fa…

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

That was quick. A year or so ago, Gallagher was a rising star, probably the strongest opponent for Tammy Baldwin's Senate seat. Then, he votes against Mayorkas' impeachment and, poof!, he's gone in three days.

The Julie Mason Show | Tom Nichols on Members of the Military are Recruiting Targets of the Extreme Right siriusxm.com/clips/clip/fb8… via @SiriusXM

A war over Taiwan could deliver a $10 trillion shock to the world economy. Bloomberg Economics calculates the costs of escalating tensions trib.al/DZf7bW2