Edward Alden

@edwardalden

Ross Professor at Western Washington. Senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations. Columnist . Proud Dad. RTs not endorsements

Bellingham, WA
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    Sep 13

    With the European Union and Canada now largely open to vaccinated travelers, the US stands increasingly alone in leaving its borders mostly closed. My latest on the strange political dynamics that are keeping US borders shut.

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    15 hours ago

    This week I joined on podcast for a wide ranging conversation on democracy, COVID, the Biden administration and what 2022 may bring. You can listen in here:

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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    Been talking to US Senators about the letter from Canada on the EV tax credit & threat to suspend bits of USMCA A caveat later but here is the most memorable quote From Ohio’s Sherrod Brown: “I don’t care.” Me: About the EV issue? Him: “I don’t care what Canada thinks.”

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    Dec 14

    Now looking like: USA: no new travel bans for Omicron. UK: dropping existing bans as Omicron already widespread. Canada: doubling down on existing bans, considering bans on ALL foreigners, never mind that O is widespread.

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  5. Dec 14

    The world is indebted to South Africa for its impressive and quick work on this research, and for sharing the findings widely (even at the risk of travel bans).

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  6. Dec 13

    Did any media other than ⁦⁩ have this kind of direct channel to Trump’s chief of staff?

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    Dec 13

    I'm looking for a post-doc in law to work on trade agreements and how to "package" them with required domestic reforms/flanking policies Part of an interdisciplinary project with & Cédric Dupont both Details here

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  8. Dec 10

    This is a pretty high-risk strategy from Ottawa. And at the moment I don’t hear many (any?) voices in Congress or the Biden administration standing up for Canada’s (or Mexico’s) interests on this one.

    This three page letter is the most aggressive posturing from Canada — outlining what will happen if the EV tax credit goes ahead.
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    Dec 10

    DPM “Chrystia Freeland has written to top U.S. senators threatening to suspend parts of the USMCA trade agreement and impose tariffs on American goods unless U.S. officials back away from a proposed tax credit for American-built electric vehicles.”

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    Dec 9

    Scrambling last minute to find care for my 3 year old, why? Because I have an exam for my career and seeing her dad in the 🇺🇸 has banned her from daycare for 2 weeks. Stable childcare or seeing her Dad, that’s the choice in 🇨🇦.

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  11. Dec 8

    Congratulations Mary!!

    I share some personal news below. What an exciting and challenging time to be working on US-China relations! I’ll be culling every bit of wisdom I can find on this platform, so many thanks to all of you.
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    Dec 8

    "We're not in a great position right now to preach the virtues of democracy." My big read on the upcoming summit of democracies.

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    Dec 8

    A good dive from Ottawa's Hill Times on how country-of-origin labelling on beef could be the next new (old) Canada-US irritant

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  14. Retweeted
    Dec 7

    Just 3% of unvaccinated Republicans believe getting vaccinated is a collective responsibility (compared to 26% of vaxxed Repubs and 81% of vaxxed Dems). Means almost no unvaccinated Repubs agree they have some responsibility to their community despite facts of COVID transmission.

    New from me: The partisan Covid gap is worsening. Research using careful causal designs show that media messaging, in the form of Fox News, is leading Republicans to take the pandemic less seriously, resist vaccines, get sick and die. 1/
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  15. Dec 6

    If confirmed, this would be the best news since the onset of the pandemic — a highly contagious but not very severe strain of Covid. After nearly two years, I am really hoping this holds up.

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    Dec 6

    Great opportunity for college students, check out New American Engagement Initiative (NAEI) Student Competition -- US sure could use some new (and better!) foreign policy ideas!!

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    Dec 6

    Just one more step in the de-marketization of China's rare earths sector. Production quotas, export quotas, forced M&As & more. s via

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  18. Dec 5

    Though I should make clear that Trump’s USTR was also an outlier here.

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  19. Dec 5

    This is actually quite shocking. Historically USTR argued forcefully that the U.S. should uphold its trade obligations. It would lose sometimes (to Congress or the White House). But it would not advocate for blatant violations of trade agreements.

    USTR backs efforts to strengthen U.S. EV industry despite objections.
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    Nov 30

    detected in Australia,Austria,Belgium,Botswan,Canada,Czech Rep,Denmark, Germany,HongKong,Israel,Italy,Japan,Netherlands, Portugal,France, South Africa,Spain,Switzerland, United Kingdom. But only 8 African countries (randomly selected) are banned.

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    Nov 29

    Travel bans are notoriously "sticky". Easy to impose and very hard to undo. They are imposed because they are highly visible, but they do very little. Omicron is already in Canada. Let's not pretend that Namibians are carrying it any more than Europeans.

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