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27 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Biden as a master of political virtualism brunomacaes.substack.com/p/bidens-philo…
I suggest this @EricLevitz essay as a valuable resource on this topic
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
I discussed the foreign policy side of the topic here
americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/02/bidens…
Some interesting suggestions from @wrmead here
wsj.com/amp/articles/a…

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29 Apr
Why is the Kumbh Mela universally blamed for the violent outbreak in India while the protests in the US were not responsible for a single case? Kumbh involved a lot less people. Yes, people come from everywhere and stay in crowded gueshouses, but there seems to be something else
I think both most likely contributed to escalation of cases in summer and now in India, but would not see Kumbh as the main reason for the tragedy in India
There were also the farmers protests, yes - which again like the protests in America are never mentioned when discussing Covid. There seems to be a slight difference here
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29 Apr
Seems that an outbreak as violent as the one in India now needs a certain density of spread - many different small outbreaks combined - and then took a year to develop in India, but much faster in Italy, UK, US... Would this be a plausible theory
I tend to think the crucial variables are epidemiological, not political or policy
Would love to read something on this. Networks, density of spread, feedback loops...
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23 Apr
Finally finished my notes on China’s digital currency. I think they now cover pretty much every angle brunomacaes.substack.com/p/some-initial…
As you can see, I don’t take seriously the idea that the digital yuan can become a global standard. I see it as part of an effort to create a new, granular, precision economic statecraft
The new precision tools can be used by Chinese authorities to apply coercive economic measures against local or foreign companies. In all likelihood their mere presence will change the rules of the game
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22 Apr
Wow
“We have only allowed India...”
I have listened to the video. This is correctly translated. “... werden lassen in der erwartung...”
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1 Apr
I really wish I could buy the idea defended by aviation people that there is no Covid risk inside a plane because the air moves upwards and is constantly filtrated and blah blah. 90% of the colds I ever got were in a plane...
Now if airlines had at least stopped serving their horrible food during a pandemic so people would keep their masks on. But no luck. I believe they would bring those trolleys over even after both wings broke off
There is of course a study showing like 7 people got Covid on a Singapore-London flight a year ago. Business seats too
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1 Apr
What is the Indo-Pacific you ask. Well there comes a time when the concepts of geography stop being adequate for geopolitics. The crucial ocean link of our timr goes from Japan to Suez. It’s the Indo-Pacific. Both the Pacific and the Atlantic matter a lot less
Japan, China, SE Asia, India, Middle East and Europe is what 70-75% of global GDP? All tightly connected in one single arc
This arc in 30 years will be one continuous area of economic development, like the arc from Milan to Amsterdam in its day but on a scale 20 times larger
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