Robert Manning

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  1. 6 minutes ago

    Perhaps so. I get tired of empty symbolism and virtue-signaling. Maybe there are no trade-offs.

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    Bob, your approach makes sense in theory, but not in practice. China equates Taiwan's participation in UN agencies with progress toward independence.
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  2. 12 minutes ago

    Didn't Netanyahu say that 10 years ago?

    will be able to break out to a weapon within 10 weeks, Defense Minister told diplomats from UN Security Council member states.
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  3. 16 minutes ago

    About sums it up. A nihilistic death cult.

    The circle of life
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  4. 41 minutes ago

    Good question. They didn’t have any idea about the Spratlys until France claimed them. This is Dreampolitik, fantasy irredentism.

    Why does the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi make himself look silly by repeating all this easily disprovable nonsense about ‘first to discover’ the South China Sea islands and the Cairo Declaration promising the islands to China?
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  5. 56 minutes ago

    Wouldn't a strategy with any chance of success require finding a way to negotiate an outcome with Beijing? Other just seems like well-intentioned pronouncements.

    Although I welcome the passage of this bill by the Senate, the US already has a strategy a strategy to help Taiwan regain observer status at the World Health Assembly. The problem is that the PRC stands in the way.
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  6. 2 hours ago

    Sounds like the Tatmadaw is now engaging in trans-national repression. Unacceptable.

    Myanmar duo arrested over plot to kill UN ambassador
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  7. 2 hours ago

    An agenda hiding in plain sight.

    Tucker Carlson's interview with Orban has now aired, and it's a horror. It displays a deranged right wing vision of self-rule that sees competitive authoritarian methods as the route to securing ethno-nationalist ends. It's the future they want. My latest:
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  8. 2 hours ago

    🤡🤡

    DeSANTIS on FIRE: Florida Gov Says Real Question About Biden is ‘What Else He’s Forgotten’
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  9. 2 hours ago

    Sadly, this is too close to reality. Idiocracy -- and from a Harvard Law grad. Cynical political ambition.

    DeSantis Threatens To Cut Hospital Funding If Surgeons Keep Wearing Masks
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    3 hours ago

    Depends what we mean by "choose." They don't have the luxury of bloc-like choices - they have to live there and China isn't going anywhere. Tactical choice is different. That's the point - Folks want the US in. On more things. And in more ways. That's not the same as China "out."

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    "I often hear people say SE Asia doesn’t want to choose. I’d modify that slightly. They don’t want to choose *publicly*…behind closed doors there’s a lot more interest in partnering with the US. A lot more anxiety about China. And in some instances it's coming to the fore.”
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  11. 4 hours ago

    Wrong. it's about risk-reward ratio. There is at the moment no credible deal possible.

    Does want a deal with ? Sure, he just does not want to take any risks to get it done.
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    10 hours ago

    DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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  13. 5 hours ago

    One might ask, what is reality's place in America?

    More than half of unvaccinated Americans think the covid vaccine is more dangerous than the virus, per a new KFF poll. Astonishing.
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  14. 5 hours ago

    Not exactly. Hard to escape being a continental power when you have land borders with 14 nations. But point taken re: Xi's ambitions.

    One look at China's lights at night shows how it can be thought of from a practical perspective as virtually an island nation, rather than a continental power. It helps to explain China's growing focus on sea power and the largely maritime sinews that connect it to the world.
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    7 hours ago

    Far more immediate as a trigger to Israel- Iranian conflict than the nuclear issue is the Iranian-Israeli escalatory tick tock along 3 fronts -land, sea,air. Middle East wars don’t happen by accident; they can have long fuses. Let’s hope this one hasn’t been lit.

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  16. 9 hours ago

    Amazing cognitive dissonance. Bizarre that a doctor fails to understand the imperative of public health measures amid a raging pandemic. You may choose disease/death over medical science, but you have no right to infect others -- and they have the right to protect themselves.

    RAND’S STAND: Sen. Paul Rips ‘Authoritarian’ Proposal to Place Unvaxxed On ‘No-Fly List’
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  17. 9 hours ago

    Welcome to an asymmetrical, multidimensional multipolar world.

    Deterrence hasn’t failed due to lack of capabilities. Threats of military action are simply not credible against low-level transgressions. A broader range of coercive tools might help fix this. More shit that goes boom certainly won’t. But maybe it’ll add some swagger?
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  18. 9 hours ago

    I never thought deterrence was other than all the instruments of comprehensive national power.

    Bracketing the critiques of Integrated Deterrence, the problem strikes me as different: contra, say, CW Europe, we're trying to deter on issues where we lack credible (relative) resolve, such that in a *nuclear age* where force only takes you so far, we're playing a wasting game.
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  19. 9 hours ago

    Hmmmm. Could this answer the question: given the risks, who needs cryptocurrency? Just Askin.... How the Fed’s digital currency could displace crypto

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  20. 9 hours ago

    Makes a case for 'vaccine diplomacy' as a transactional tool.

    Duterte Retained U.S. Military Deal as 'Concession' for Vaccines
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