There is a very simple problem with all proposals about reforming the international system and specifically the institutions we generally think of as the bedrocks of the international system. Let's assume a magical Harry Potter Willy Wonka world where a George Soros 1/n

Charles Kock dark arts cabal brain trust of Acela Corridor Galaxy brains came together and wrote a WHO/WTO reform proposal that ended poverty, made cars carbon negative, and TV news watchable once again. Vox and Fox raved about its nuanced beauty as a reform proposal 2/n

Given the state of international world, with the Chinese economic system with broad network of quasi tributary paying satellite and aligned authoritarian states like Russia, Iran, and others any reform proposal is dead before the ink is even dry on the circulated proposal. 3/n

This presents a simple conundrum which is basically true of most any international agreement in 2020 and definitely anything involving China. You can reach a political agreement that effectively worthless or not reach an agreement that means something. You cannot do both. Enjoy.