T. Greer

@Scholars_Stage

I blog+write columns. Usually on: 1. Behavioral science 2. Macro-history 3. Modern Asian politics 4. Chinese strategic thought (that's where 1-3 meet!)

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    Aug 10

    Everything we know about China's strategic tradition. Part I: Part II

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    "Regardless of the emphasis placed on the forces driving warfare, scholars agree that there were at least four conceptions of warfare among the Classic Maya, manifested in four glyphic verbal expressions: chuc'ah, capture; hubi, destruction; ch'ak, decapitation/battle; star-war."

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    5 hours ago

    中共海外渗透已不满足通过同乡会控制华人社区了，美国、加拿大都出现了中共统战部所属的同乡会负责人参与政治选举，而且得到资助。这是十分危险的政治动作，应该引起美国、加拿大政府注意，中共统战部就是准间谍机构。

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    The president of Wenzhou Friendship Society has an active role in China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification. He also donated $26,000 to Richmond mayoral candidate.
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    These tech choices of conscience get more difficult when China enters the equation. Microsoft employees protesting Pentagon contract, but Microsoft has a tie up with CETC, the company that makes the surveillance systems in Xinjiang, where Uighurs have been thrown into camps.

    Sam Altman, head of , announced he is “suspending” his role with , the Saudi government’s exorbitant plan to build a “megacity” in the desert.
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    14 hours ago

    Another one bites the dust. Belt and Road financing is not always the hype that self servingly some ppl propagate. Joins Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya KT name but a few

    “After serious consideration and diligence, it is the government’s view that it is uneconomical to proceed with the construction of the new airport when the existing one is grossly under utilized,” government report says.
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    Political awareness is to China what class is to the UK and caste is to India; much of it is invisible to outsiders but dictating a huge amount of social norms and public behavior. (h/t for this analogy)
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    13 hours ago

    Two important papers for evolutionary psychology just published, by Lassek and Gaulin: in contrast to EP assumptions, the low BMI and waist-hip ratio WEIRD men find attractive do not indicate better health or higher fecundity. Health paper:

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    But it's unlikely that you fill find -- in government and politics -- satisfying resolutions to life's basic problems of purpose and meaning. It's like looking for chastity in a brothel.

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    What I mean by this is that politics is seen as a ready solution to whatever problems we have with our private lives, but not our public ones. The public has been steadily disconnected from ownership of politics and correspondingly believes the system to be corrupt.

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    There's also a paradox I often observe about the US today. Everything has never been so politicized -- barely a day goes by without an impassioned op-ed about some thing that is Problematic -- but politics as an activity in the US is all but dead.

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    7 hours ago

    Now do Xinjiang

    Brookings Institution deserves credit for canceling research grant from Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi incident -- all think tanks should follow suit, over this and Saudi slaughter of civilians in Yemen --
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    When I was in grad school before I knew you weren't supposed to admit you hadn't read something I got a question about how Derrida related to this paper I gave and I said 'I've not read his work, I can't say' and people in the room literally gasped out loud.

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    Oct 12

    A Sogdian couple's journey to paradise on winged horses vs. Muhammad's ascent to heaven on an angelic steed, both guided by an escort of angels. One carved on a 6th-c sarcophagus in Xi'an, China; one painted on a 16th-c page in Tabriz, Iran. The link is fascinating yet puzzling.

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    I am not going to lie folks. I have watched this College Humor Sketch five times now, and I stil burst out laughing each time I see it "Defender of the Basic" (Also: see the words on his crest: VIVERE RIDERE AMORE! Too perfect)

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    Why would the Saudis miscalculate like this? 🤔🤔 1. War in Yemen - no consequences 2. Qatar blockade - no consequences 3. Kidnap Lebanese PM - no consequences 4. Multibillion $$ shakedown at Ritz Carlton - no consequences 5. Pick a dumb fight with Canada - no consequences

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    Oct 12

    Jamal Khashoggi's death is a Tragedy; 100,000 Yemeni Deaths is a Statistic

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    A natural result of 30+ years of PRC not following through on 1-2-3 Agreement commitments and military-civil fusion. U.S. imposes new controls on nuclear technology exports to China via

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    Is America over-reacting to Chinese influence/interference operations? A China File dialogue:

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  20. Oct 12

    This blog post on 'real' purpose of Harvard admissions over time is quite clear eyed, and quite good. Recc'd

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    Oct 12

    My review of Daniel Ziblatt's excellent Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy is now out in the Journal of Economic History. Here is the pdf

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