President/CEO @PacificForum. Great powers, alliances, security architectures, nuclear weapons, big history, the future, incl. the long, long term. Views my own.
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Feb 4, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
If you haven't read the Russia-China Joint Statement, you really should.
Here it is, plus some highlights in the thread below.
1/14 en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770
- Democracy. Big focus, deemed "a universal human value"... but it is up to individual states to choose the forms/methods to implement democracy. Plus note: "It is only up to the people of the country to decide whether their State is a democratic one."
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Nov 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I explain here what Washington should expect from US-China strategic stability talks (if they happen).
This is based on findings from unofficial dialogue between US and Chinese strategists, notably one meeting that took place recently.
1/4 chinatalk.substack.com/p/michele-flou…1. During the Cold War, "There were people whose only job was to really understand how the Soviet leadership thought...We have to do a much better job of really understanding [#China's] calculus and how to influence it."
It's critical: we don't understand China well enough.
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Aug 22, 2020 • 18 tweets • 14 min read
Trans-Siberian (family) trip, a thread:
Exactly a year ago, I took a month-long trip with my wife @LTSantoro1 & then 2-year-old daughter from St Petersburg to Beijing via Mongolia on the trans-Siberian railway & we stopped & visited multiple cities along the way.
Our trip:
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Pretty much everyone told us it was a crazy idea: it's too long, dangerous & insane to do this with a 2-year-old.
Turned out to be a fantastic adventure in all aspects (& don't worry it's not the craziest thing I did).