
Karthik Sankaran
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Formerly many things. 1st to rhyme Duce & Juche. Neoliberal Peacenik. Macro Expat. Lunch Special seeker. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen, and dad humors.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/sankaran?r=r6t&utm_medium=ios 04-10-2013 00:52:14
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野口和彦(Kazuhiko Noguchi) Thanks for the comments, Kazu. You make a good point: if governments face guns-butter trade-offs, and China is going through some major structural adjustments at home, due to an aging population, an inability to achieve a truly convertible currency, and growing inequalities


New essay on Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment, co-written with comrades Jack Taggart and Tom Chodor for Phenomenal World phenomenalworld.org/analysis/indus… Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Centre of Development Studies



NEW Trita Parsi : Israel is losing its "excellent" campaign and now knocking on Trump's door to join them with offensive strikes. Why this isn't going Israel's way now, and why Trump must resist: responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-iran-wa… (below)


Quincy Institute's Karthik Sankaran explains this week the connections between higher US bond yields and demanding that our partners and allies in East Asia spend 5% of GDP. Dad will love this one! Happy #FathersDay ! responsiblestatecraft.org/defense-spendi…



Zhang Xueliang Supremacy RB To be fair, the first wave of industrialisation (Stalinist) was pretty massive! But yeah, the post-EU growth was spread across sectors without any particular emphasis on industry (interestingly, in contrast to peer countries—the stylised view of Polish economy as this big

We can't speak of a unified economic statecraft approach in the Trump administration. Instead, four tendencies: revenue-driven, re-industrialize, decouple from China to a North America core, or pursue allyshoring. (Karthik Sankaran helped my thinking on this). Problem: ... 1/

how one deals with inevitable tradeoffs and contradictions. Economic statecraft requires an overarching strategy--which we don't seem to have. Via Stimson Center / Inkstick Media 2/ inkstickmedia.com/whats-behind-t…