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https://twitter.com/felix_drost/status/1964065308085268807“Trump’s charm offensives with Russia, China and North Korea have so far yielded remarkably little. Efforts to forge a friendship with Kim during the first Trump administration came to nothing. Indeed, their collapse seems to have led to a radicalisation of North Korean policy..”
https://twitter.com/fareedzakaria/status/1963948934948179972“Trump has treated those pivotal states to some of his most vicious rhetoric & aggressive policies. He unleashed the highest tariff rate in the world against 🇮🇳. He punished 🇧🇷 with equally high tariffs & levied sanctions & visa bans against 🇧🇷 officials. 🇿🇦 faces 30% tariffs..”
https://twitter.com/pranshuverma_/status/1963468131076063520“Rubio and Greer went to the Oval Office recently to present Trump with a proposed Indian trade deal, but the president rejected it, according to three people familiar with the matter, speaking.. on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive political discussions.” 2/9
https://twitter.com/time/status/1962946176971624601“Throughout the 1980s, America bankrolled the brutal military dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq because he was helping Washington defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan.” 2/10
https://twitter.com/wrmead/status/1962625570094874991“The Tianjin summit won’t be remembered for its achievements. But the meeting was a significant move. China and America are positioning themselves for what Messrs. Xi and Trump both consider the main event of Mr. Trump’s second term..” 2/9
https://twitter.com/ftopinion/status/1962516470513983626“I suspect that, ultimately, this ruling will not fundamentally alter the administration’s propensity to use tariffs to pursue multiple objectives. The approach is integral to the efforts to rewire the international trading system and also the domestic economy.” 2/5
https://twitter.com/ft/status/1962486730444997021“This kind of enforced sycophancy is not just ridiculous — it is dangerous. It signals that a megalomaniac is in charge and that nobody feels able to stand up to him. In such a climate, Trump’s every whim will be indulged.” 2/5
https://twitter.com/sahebschadha/status/1961731832686236124“It was the disruption of peace and tranquility at the border that was holding India-China ties back, and it is the recent “general prevalence of peace and tranquility in the border areas” that is “leading to gradual normalisation of bilateral relations.” 2/9
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1961641132787687554“Viewed from Beijing, the timing for this choreographed diplomatic fest couldn’t be more opportune. Though little of substance is likely to come out of this multiday summitry, images matter.” 2/8
https://twitter.com/onthenewsbeat/status/1961284482348044701“One person close to the situation downplayed the notion of needing traditional on-paper diplomatic qualifications: “Diplomatic experience is fake in this day and age. Candidly, it’s just not real. This is much more about being good at negotiation and high-stakes deal-making.”
https://twitter.com/onthenewsbeat/status/1961130492398637154“This deterioration did not arise from a singular policy failure but rather from a pattern: a belief that India, like Japan and the European Union (EU), would ultimately make major concessions affecting sensitive domestic constituencies under US pressure.” 2/14
https://twitter.com/milanv/status/1961069069647728734“He cannot have thought through how the world’s most populous country and fifth-largest economy would react.” 2/12
https://twitter.com/z_dauletsingh/status/1960696556056658077“The changing structure of global industrial capabilities is equally stark: in 2000, the West accounted for over 70 per cent; by 2030, it is the non-West that is projected to account for nearly 70 per cent of global production.” 2/15
https://twitter.com/evanfeigenbaum/status/1960944404518371483“At the time, trade talks with the US were turning contentious and officials in New Delhi were bristling over Trump’s claims of brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan following four days of fighting in May.” 2/7
https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1960831671558922368“India has an average tariff of 39% on imported farm goods—among the highest in the world. It protects its large but inefficient dairy industry with both high tariffs and nontariff barriers.” 2/7
https://twitter.com/pstasiatech/status/1959957974442512679“The names of the rare earths remain exotic and little known to the western ear... But, in a full-on trade war, the western public might soon become familiar with names like neodymium and dysprosium.” 2/10
https://twitter.com/shekhargupta/status/1959185340213924071“Here are the richest, most powerful nations in the world, the third and sixth largest national economies, second largest economic bloc (EU), two nuclear-armed P5 states, all on their knees.” 2/12
https://twitter.com/isberryauthor/status/1948723750221861096“The CIA’s reading list consisted of luminary freethinkers, including Camus, Huxley and Vonnegut; it featured the predictable (Orwell) and the less obvious (le Carré). Many of the authors were Easterners who wrote from experience..” 2/8
https://twitter.com/ftopinion/status/1959103986725781622“wider Maga effort to influence Britain’s domestic life. Elon Musk has tormented Keir Starmer over immigration and crime. Donald Trump has bashed Sadiq Khan. Vance himself is upset about our free speech laws.” 2/6
https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1958955499464118653“Like many in D.C., I’ve had friends who have been mugged, witnessed shootings, and had their cars or apartment buildings broken into. Liberals immediately reply, as if reciting a mantra, that crime here has dropped significantly from 2023 highs, as in much of the country.” 2/4