No livestream but the event video will be available later. For those of you in DC please join us in person.

Elon Musk’s PAC Misleads People In Swing States Into Thinking They’ve Registered To Vote: Report huffpost.com/entry/2024-ele…

If you're in the DC area, please join East-West Center for an in-person event tomorrow August 6th at 1030 am EST exploring how US Indo-Pacific partners view Arctic security and governance. eastwestcenter.org/events/indo-pa…

If you missed the seminar East-West Center last week, here's the event video. I talk about how Japan, South Korea, Singapore and India view Arctic security and governance and examine how we might cooperate with them in the North Pacific. Paper coming out soon!

Always great to talk China-Russia with ChinaPower Bonny Lin! We covered the May Xi-Putin meeting, the SCO summit in July, and the recent series of 5 Sino-Russian military exercises.

At the 2024 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, Xi Jinping underscored the importance of deepening security cooperation through enhanced intelligence sharing and joint operations. Learn about the implications for international security here: bit.ly/4g0yU7d

In the joint statement after the 2024 Xi-Putin Summit, Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick @lizwish.bsky.social notes a key discrepancy: “In the Chinese text, it says that Russia agreed that Taiwan was a part of the PRC. However, in the Russian text, it says that Taiwan is a part of China.” bit.ly/4g0yU7d

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(📣) The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter: “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.” RETWEET if you agree. theguardian.com/world/article/…

A great topic! See the East-West Center project on US Indo-Pacific partners and the Arctic eastwestcenter.org/projects/indo-…

Today, I will donate to Ukraine 0.50 cents for each new follower. I have now 35140. Please share this message :) #FollowFriday

1/2 A simple, clear way to illustrate "sane-washing." Start with the thread below, from Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) . Its point is that the leading media present Trump's startlingly incoherent NY Econ Club presentation yesterday as if it were a normal policy speech. Toe-touch mentions that