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#ipeakedsomeone
So...this is a big one. I peaked someone important to me, someone I wouldn't continue getting deeper in relationship with unless she agreed to look at truth and facts, someone very deep into trans ideology, someone with many trans friends/family. Call her "xx." 1
So...this is a big one. I peaked someone important to me, someone I wouldn't continue getting deeper in relationship with unless she agreed to look at truth and facts, someone very deep into trans ideology, someone with many trans friends/family. Call her "xx." 1
We have spent 2 weeks dancing around the trans issue...me planting seeds, sharing difficult things, showing her places that terfs had been attacked for the same views I share. She kept saying she thought we could navigate this disagreement while having opposite points of view.2/
I finally put my foot down and explained: someone as smart as she is, as good at communication, and as into me as she is...if she actually looked at what I have seen, and she still thinks we can agree to disagree on this one topic...no. 3/
As #Kissinger shouted at 1969 football game, "On what theory?"
nytimes.com/1970/02/19/arc…
An alternative possibility—the "Ducks in a Row" approach:
Ambitious but failure averse, #Xi faces strong incentives to max forces before attempting one of (recent) history's greatest gambles.
nytimes.com/1970/02/19/arc…
An alternative possibility—the "Ducks in a Row" approach:
Ambitious but failure averse, #Xi faces strong incentives to max forces before attempting one of (recent) history's greatest gambles.
"Ducks in a Row" model ≠ theoretical speculation.
#Xi himself has charged #PLA w/ achieving 2027 "Centennial #Military Building Goal" (#建军一百年奋斗目标).
DoD: "this would provide Beijing w/ more credible military options in a #Taiwan contingency."
>>andrewerickson.com/2021/12/prc-pu…
#Xi himself has charged #PLA w/ achieving 2027 "Centennial #Military Building Goal" (#建军一百年奋斗目标).
DoD: "this would provide Beijing w/ more credible military options in a #Taiwan contingency."
>>andrewerickson.com/2021/12/prc-pu…
"Ducks in a Row" model allows ZERO room for complacency.
#Xi may well PREFER +-5 years more #PLA prep to attempt max-stakes mark on #history.
But many factors now in play, stakes high, margins thin.
#PRC rhetoric re @SpeakerPelosi trip suggests growing tensions moving forward.
#Xi may well PREFER +-5 years more #PLA prep to attempt max-stakes mark on #history.
But many factors now in play, stakes high, margins thin.
#PRC rhetoric re @SpeakerPelosi trip suggests growing tensions moving forward.
Our new report – China’s 14th Five Year Plan: A Contender for The European Green Deal? – examines #climate, energy & industrial strategies in the latest #FiveYearPlan, and offers a lookback on climate progress in the last 5 years in the EU & China e3g.org/publications/c… (1/7)
A look back at the pace of wind and solar development in the last 5 years as #China positions renewable energy as a "strategic emerging sector" in its 14th Plan. (2/7)
The EU, while unable to compete with China on cost of manufacturing and research spending, remains more competitive on the capacity to innovate. The EU27 registers more green technology patents annually compared to China. bit.ly/3fwzdcV (3/7)
