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Obviously there are multiple pathways to making America great again.

So you want the rest of NATO to raise its military spending economist.com/asia/2025/03/1… statista.com/chart/14636/de… substack.com/profile/137839…

Many congratulations to my friends at the Munk School, University of Toronto, on their senior recruiting success. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/2…

Innovation is technology and engineering. But innovation is also social, i.e., innovation is political and economic. NUS engages with our alumni and friends all over the world, because it is through jointly forging the best ideas we continue to live in peace and prosperity.

At Boao Forum 2025 I made three points on how the Global South now sees the pathway to modernization being pulled out from beneath. substack.com/profile/137839…

The tragedy of multilateralism is that international organizations eventually break down if goodwill alone (or exhortation) is what is expected to hold them together. This is also why the Global South should not look to the Middle Powers to lead. open.substack.com/pub/dannyquah/…

Southeast Asia is hit by two large shocks. First, a supply-side China Shock, so our manufacturers are out-competed. And, second, a demand-side America Shock, so our companies can't sell what we do produce. What's the smartest thing for us now to do? youtube.com/watch?v=JWTyMC…

CSIS Public Forum on Regional Response to Trump 2.0 Now, more than ever, is it important to look to opportunities for inadvertent cooperation. We have to ensure the other guy does the right thing, even if it's, in our view, for the wrong reason. DannyQuah.github.io/talks/2025-04-…

If we've grown used to the China Shock, let's also call the Trump Administration what it is: the America Shock. The China Shock is a supply shock. The America Shock is a demand shock. open.substack.com/pub/dannyquah/…

For me and many others, Joe Nye helped shatter the artificial dichotomy between deep academic scholarship and public thought leadership. substack.com/profile/137839…

We filled the hall.  So this just my end of things at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Valedictory Dinner:  The Next Chapter 2025.  Heroes of hope, Andaz Singapore

This get to cordyceps, we're doomed weforum.org/stories/2025/0…

The Future of War and Peace: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities for Global Stability Sat 23 May 2025 Princeton University, McCosh 50. (where Sonnenfeld used to come in with his cape and lectured on Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann) reunions.princeton.edu/event/alumni-f…

Rememberance of scars from battles past ... and looking ahead at those to come

First, it is not the newly-emerging powers, supposedly revisionist, now disrupting world order. Second (...) Third, the current disruptor, unlike earlier suspects, actually has no plan on what would replace the current system. Substack dannyquah.substack.com/p/three-ironie…

So, after several decades and a world profoundly changed, lunch with these guys back at Princeton.

So many of our professional lives were touched by Stan's economic insights, his clarity, his generosity, and his kindness. On top of all else Stan showed us, by personal example, that it is by being open to ideas that true brilliance changes the world.  nytimes.com/2025/06/01/bus…

Chad Bown moderates Mari Pangestu, Ann Harrison, Ross Garnaut, and me, at Peterson Institute in Washington DC, in livestreamed discussion on industrial policy for Asia and the Pacific (beginning 5pm Thu 05 Jun EDT) piie.com/events/2025/in…  Peterson Institute Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Chad P. Bown Pacific Trade and Development

US shakes up Europe's security architecture, Mar 2025. EU discusses new strategic doctrine, on step-by-step European independence from the US. US takes on international economic system, Apr 2025 Liberation Day tariffs. All "these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass."

Without elastic demand---because, perhaps, markets in the rest of the world have closed in on themselves---raising supply-side productivity doesn't raise living standards, only unemployment