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Musings and a few insights on Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, as well as human rights.
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Grading Their Own Wreck (opens the original)
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Jonathan Czin’s “China Against China,” in the May Foreign Affairs, arrives with impeccable credentials, and that is precisely the problem. Czin was director for China at the National Security Council from 2021 to 2023, coordinating every one of Biden’s interactions with Xi Jinping. The Washington he now diagnoses from Brookings is the Washington he helped run.That matters most at his sharpest line. Czin warns that the United States risks a “Reverse Roosevelt” posture — speaking loudly about Amer
China Can't Deliver on Trade for Trump (opens the original)
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President Trump is dispatching the retiring Montana Senator Steve Daines as an envoy to Beijing to advance his economic agenda of securing a trade deal with China. Senator Daines has long been an advocate of unbridled trade with China. That position is understandable in principle, but in recent years advancing it has required overlooking the economic realities of a China that is growing weaker as it ages, shrinks, and suffers domestic economic decline.President Trump is an eternal optimist who d
The Expatriate - H1B - Manager Comes to America (opens the original)
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America has a new kind of manager on its hands, and we don’t have a name for them yet. “Foreign manager” is the wrong term — too blunt, too hostile, and often inaccurate, since many of these managers hold US passports. The right word is one the rest of the world has used for a century, usually to describe us: expatriate.An expatriate manager is not simply an immigrant who worked their way up. They arrive with their professional culture already formed — their assumptions about hierarchy, loyalty,
Why Asia’s Real Estate Decline May Become a Comparative Advantage (opens the original)
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Here’s a contrarian thought: what if the declining real estate markets of China, Japan, and Taiwan are, over the long term, becoming a comparative advantage over the United States and Europe, where housing costs keep rising thanks to mass migration into urban centers and chronic over-regulation of housing supply?The conventional wisdom holds that falling housing values in China, Japan, Taiwan, and even South Korea — all facing population decline and lower family formation — are unambiguously bad
Is the Middle Class About to Fix Itself? (opens the original)
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Here is the strange truth at the heart of modern life: the class everyone wants to join — the class people claw and scrape to stay in — is also the soft underbelly of every society it inhabits.Canada, Hong Kong, Britain, the United States: the picture of the good life is the same everywhere. Middle class, preferably upper-middle. Bills paid, money in the bank, a few nice things, social respectability, and the promise that the kids will do even better.And that is precisely the opening that those
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