As China expands its influence in Cambodia while Vietnam’s leverage over Laos 'weakens', the Chinese encirclement of #Vietnam is growing 'more comprehensive'. Dr Huong LE THU Nga Pham Andrew Goledzinowski 🇦🇺 1/3
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RE: Buffett selling a portion of his AAPL holdings:

What if China starts doing to US 'tech champions' what China did to US Rust Belt 'industrial champions', US unions, & the US working class 2001-10?

US Rust Belt 'industrial champions' initially found it 'inconceivable' too 1/

A thread by an ICE

'When the states with the power to intervene are also the ones that make the decision of whether and how to use that power, it creates the possibility of selective neglect.'

My latest for World Politics Review.
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Ah good old Soros’ chickens coming home to roost!
Guess Hillary Clinton’s warning holds true here too
“You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors [read, Enemies].Eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard”

It would be a miracle if a diverse and open society like India were to withstand the Triple Containment by Western, Chinese, and radical Islamist elements aiming to cut it down to size to serve their interests.

Latest ISDP : #Himalaya certainly needs greater international awareness & interest in public domain & among policymakers, in #US Congress & #EU . #India - #West cooperation is critical to preserve Himalayan autonomy. isdp.eu/publication/70… ISDP HCSS - The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies YCAPS

Thanks to Foreign Policy for publishing this excerpt of Countering China’s Great Game!

“Xi’s Imperial Ambitions Are Rooted in China’s History” foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/27/xi-…

The dollar as the world's primary reserve currency, says Trump, 'is what makes us powerful.' De-dollarization would be 'like losing a world war.' But now many nations are beginning to pursue alternatives to the greenback in bilateral trade and oil markets. project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-…

“What does seem clear, however, is that China is deliberately stockpiling at speed, part of a much wider national effort to accumulate essential raw materials and resource.” 1/

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Clausewitz: No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Zuozhuan: When the noble man lays a plan, he considers the beginning, middle, and end …

Following Blinken's visit, and in the wake of numerous such diplomatic visits to China, it may be a good idea to remind ourselves that this is only the latest in a long line of disrespectful and arrogant western embassies going back to Tome Pires in 1521!
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#ASEAN is part of the problem, not the solution. Most ASEAN countries have been Finlandized, co-opted, divided and neutered. On the SCS, Trilaterals, Quads, old and new bilateral and multilateral alliances are the future. ASEAN is history…dead in the waters of the SCS.

Note how many articles condemning police brutality under Biden administration (not to speak of the fact that male officers are forcefully restraining a female professor) are written in NYT, WaPo etc. Or British outlets. Imagine this was happening in India, at JNU, under Modi…

Wealth creation eradicates poverty.

Wealth distribution perpetuates poverty.

Marxism may have killed tens of millions around the world but sadly Marxist ideas continue to persist, potentially perpetuating poverty.

To understand what is at stake in the fight against the axis of China, Russia and Iran, just read 'The Lord of the Rings,' Niall Ferguson writes trib.al/lIYWZVp

“When the word [strategy] first entered the vernacular in 1771, it expressed a view of generalship that admired ruses and maneuvers to avoid pitched battles, but then developed over the nineteenth century with pitched battles very much in mind.”

— Lawrence Freedman

Forget Punnun. It’s this dangerous Indian (leftist) interference in American body politic that Washington should be really worried about.

Huawei is killing Apple in China.

.Jon Stewart and 'New Cold Wars' author David Sanger discuss forms of colonialism and imperialism we see today