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Demonstrators carried signs that said "If we burn, you burn with us," and held up the three-finger sign of protest – a reference to "The Hunger Games.” My story on the protest #IndonesiaSadar: reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
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Pakistan has denied carriers from Taiwan access to its airspace in support of Beijing’s One-China policy, the first move of its kind by any country. Full story: bloom.bg/4e697uV
📷: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg
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Strong words and soft resistance by Rowse
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ALT (SCMP) Deliver accountability for Tai Po fire tragedy or admit system is broken • Findings that result in blame for the private sector and low-level civil servants while leaving ministers untouched will not cut the ice with the public
Timothy McLaughlin retweeted
Is the foreign policy establishment adopting MAGA’s worldview, or is Trump adopting the Blob’s?
At CFR in March, Sebastian Gorka called a New York Times reporter "some piece of human filth." He told a Harvard Law lecturer asking about war powers, "Who's the commander in chief?" On blowback from Iran, he said you’d have to be smoking Hunter Biden’s crack pipe to worry. The moderator moved on each time.
I wrote about Trump’s Blob for @nybooks:
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The Philippine presidential palace defended a $786,646 bounty for information leading to the arrest of Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa, saying it was part of a legitimate operation by the Interior Department and the Philippine National Police reut.rs/3WaD4nu
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New: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. propub.li/47FL1Uh
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Four Philippine Air Force pilots killed in training accident reut.rs/4i5G6lt reut.rs/4i5G6lt
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In UN diplo circles there is wide-spread speculation that Lana Nusseibeh will prevail in the race for UN Secretary General. Except China, I'm told, remains committed to supporting a candidate from Latin American or the Caribbean, raising prospect that race is still open.
Timothy McLaughlin retweeted
Appeals court shores up ICE mass detention policy politi.co/48c3S9x
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BREAKING: The Trump administration sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses as another candidate shares his name. apnews.com/article/alaska-se…
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It’s truly unbelievable that people are still blaming China for sowing chaos in the West…
At this rate, you’d think China started the Iran war, ran the fiscal profligacy driving bond yields higher worldwide, and launched a trade war against the rest of the world.
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Read this carefully. A senior U.S. official is invoking American sanctions against the ICC while warning the ICJ judges hearing a genocide case against Myanmar... The U.S. itself declared the Rohingya genocide to be genocide, but that doesn’t seem to matter to this “ambassador.”
ICJ ad hoc "judge" Navi Pillay is tipping the scales on the ICJ’s current proceedings on Myanmar, intending to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a finger against terrorists that hide behind civilians. Pillay: We see your agenda and we'll be watching the ICJ’s handling of these proceedings very closely. As our actions against the ICC demonstrate, we will not allow globalist, faux-judges to weaponize the law against our troops, undermine our sovereignty, or put American lives at risk.
The Nobel Committee has disgraced itself by awarding the Peace Prize to Pillay. What a shameful choice to "honor" someone who represents an "international community" with a leftist, globalist, antisemitic agenda.
President Trump is showing a better way, by actually ENDING WARS, bringing hostages HOME, and making PEACE.
Timothy McLaughlin retweeted
“What makes the rise of Puma Shen so significant is that the former uni professor who is an expert on China’s influence efforts in Taiwan has scored almost all his political points on local governance, rather than playing up Chiang and the KMT’s closeness to the CCP.” @heguisen
China has barely been mentioned in this year's Taipei mayoral campaign.
But should upstart DPP challenger Puma Shen win, Beijing would lose an important ally in incumbent Chiang Wan-an, who it has likely viewed as a future president it could work with. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/coul…
Timothy McLaughlin retweeted
The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories revolving around COS Susie Wiles — or it would suffer unspecified consequences.
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Timothy McLaughlin retweeted
The domestic foundation of American global power is crumbling. Trump is less the cause than a symptom and an accelerant. Since the Cold War ended, the United States has pursued global primacy under an implicit bargain with the public: dominance would come cheap. Today Americans are no more willing to bear serious costs for foreign policy than they were in the 1990s. But a far more competitive world is driving up the price of upholding U.S. commitments.
No matter who wins the White House in 2028, this gap will constrain American power around the world.
In a new @CarnegieEndow paper, I trace the U.S. foreign-policy consensus from the Cold War to the present and outline three scenarios for the future:
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It is very sad to learn that @SocHKStudies will come to an end at the end of this month. Thanks for everything. 🙏🏻
Timothy McLaughlin retweeted
A generation of retirees are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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New: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now. propub.li/3UdAtIG
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BREAKING and EXCLUSIVE: The purchase of several airplanes by the Department of Homeland Security during then-Secretary Kristi Noem’s tenure is tied to an “ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation.”
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