#Diplomacy

Andrew Harris

edin_thinker

Ok #defence twitter, it's that time. The UK's Integrated Review of defence, security etc is back, and the inevitable chat about platforms, capabilities and fantasy fleets has started again. And,

Alex von Tunzelmann

alexvtunzelmann

I suspect what is really going on here, as with all the other times skilled and qualified officials have been fired because they supposedly weren’t Brexit enough, is that those

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

Towards the end of this interview, Biden talks about "amelioration of the immigration situation", which means "letting Soviet Jews go."Many of them, who owe their current US citizenship to Biden,

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_ranpo__

Post WW2 late 40s, the world is divided in blocs based on ideological lines, american capitalists and soviet communists.Meanwhile our PM Nehru has his own elitist vision of non alignment

Simon Fraser

SimonFraser00

1/6: Now we have the #Brexit deal we should reboot British #foreignpolicy. It needs both clear long-term priorities and agile tactical footwork. For starters, this thread suggests five early opportunities

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jnchien

Can't talk about neocolonialism in Africa without bringing up Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group (FGS), which uses paramilitary security forces to "make it safe" for the continued flow of Chinese

Chengxin Pan

ChengxinPan

A Short Manual of Double-standard Language NB: What light is to sight, language is to meaning-making. Nothing we see/know makes sense without it. For every same/similar scenario there're two sets

Samanway Banerjee

qriosam

In a normal 2020, the Tokyo Olympics would have opened today. However this is not the first time an Olympics scheduled to be held at the Japanese capital had to

Chris von Csefalvay

chrisvcsefalvay

I just talked to a friend, a federal gov't epidemiologist specialising in respiratory infections. She's been on #COVID19 from the earliest days."Why are we even doing this?", she asked. "It's

Phillip Souta

PhillipSouta

Some thoughts on provisional application of any EU-UK trade agreement. The EU does provisional application a lot.1 time in 20198 times in 201812 times in 2017and so on.A list from

Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune

BhandarkarI

Ganesha - The God of Asia (Thread)As promised, here are 8 traces of Lord Ganesha from various countries & across many centuries. This thread is based on the book, "Ganesha

Hal Brands

HalBrands

There have been many excellent tributes to George Shultz today. Here's my contribution, which argues that although Shultz never had aura of a Kennan or Kissinger, he had every bit

John Delury

JohnDelury

A platitude of 2020 was that the coronavirus isolated North Korea in a way that sanctions never could. Bob Woodward quoted Matt Pottinger saying as much in his book [in

Rich Elmoyan

Elmoyan15

[THREAD]Could the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War have been avoided?————————Sept. 27th military attack by caught many by surprise. Scholars focusing on the Caucasus mostly argue that military confrontation was on

Robert E Kelly

Robert_E_Kelly

.@GrecianFormula is very kind, but I must say that I just don't see much different coming regarding North Korea with a Biden victory. So I am not sure how much

Patricia M Thornton

PM_Thornton

SkyNews reporting "a major leak containing a register w/the personal identifying details of 1.95 mil Communist Party members [in #China], mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000

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