Key Insights:
The global trade network is immensely valuable…
Friendshoring is not deglobalization, but raher shift-globlization…
Brad was stupid in 2005 in thinking “passing the baton of hegemony” constructively and progressively was a possibility…
Countries have no gratitude, and only remember what is convenient…
William James sought for “the moral equivalent of war” to mobilize civilizational energies for good and progress; and a Cold War certainly counts…
As Zhou Enlai said on similar issues: “it is too soon to tell”…
We both hope that America and China will soon be friends again—but the balloon freakout makes us pessimistic…
Hexapodia!!
References:
Sophia Ankel: China flew spy balloons over the US while Trump was president, but nobody realized until after he left office, reports say…
Steve Clemons: 🟡 The red balloon…
Damon Linker: America the Unserious…
Noah Smith: China's industrial policy has mostly been a flop…
Noah Smith: Three books about the technology wars…
Noah Smith: Friend-shoring vs. "Buy American"…
Noah Smith: You are now living through Cold War 2…
+, of course:
Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep00ving_0/mode/1up>
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