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Harvard-to-Tsinghua Fields Medal winner Shing-Tung Yau to SCMP: “In the coming years, China’s mathematical strength will grow significantly, driven by two factors: the return of top talent from abroad and the increasing quality of home-grown researchers.” scmp.com/news/china/sci…

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A devastating verdict.

+1 - including some big breakthroughs on infrastructure.

Is there a clear explainer of the cumulative US tariffs on China? We have Trump 1.0 (kept by Biden); 10pc + 10pc in early Trump 2.0 and now reciprocal tariffs as well. Correct? What do they all add up to?

Reading the Trump tea leaves, today’s NSC firings suggest: - The MAGA / Koch foreign policy alliance is in ascendency. - China hawks are in decline.

Another cheap, penny-pinching disaster from DOGE. Many great scholars at Wilson, plus the indispensable Cold War History project.😟

golfing nero Financial Review

If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?

RIP #RichardArmitage, former deputy secretary of state & giant in the Asia policy field, who passed away on Sunday. I interviewed "Sir Rich" for Lunch with the FT in 2007. #FreeToRead at on.ft.com/3YwE8Ae

Japanese Warships Preparing for Pacific Deployment Later This Month news.usni.org/2025/04/15/jap… Pacific countries that will be visited include Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu

Moscow seems pleased. One paper today: “Soviet leaders’ dream of driving a wedge between the European part of Nato & the US has come true.” Another: “Trump is destroying the world created by US liberals…the changes in the global system serve [Russia’s] interests” #ReadingRussia

"China is rapidly expanding munitions production and acquiring advanced weapons systems & equipment at a pace 5 to 6 times faster than the U.S. While China is preparing with a wartime mindset, the U.S. continues to operate under peacetime conditions." cs.is/4ibRMjn

🧵Since President Trump's election, the United States has changed direction. In the forthcoming 2025 The Lowy Institute Poll, only 36% of Australians say they trust the US to act responsibly in the world. This represents a big drop. It's the lowest result we have ever recorded. (1/2)

After China and the US comes Hungary... MEPs were offered special pouches to protect digital devices from espionage and tampering for a visit to Hungary this week, a sign of rising spying fears within Europe. politico.eu/article/lawmak…

PwC exits not 9 but 11 African countries (since it is also cutting ties with affiliated members in Malawi and Zimbabwe). This massive exit is justified by risk, when in fact its to avoid accusations of corruption to one of the big 4.

Cambodia had been very unhappy about the initial withdrawal of finance. Let's see if it gets done.

A guy in China made a model of every ship in the Chinese navy.