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“If Trump wants to pursue a grand strategic project with the goal of keeping ‘America First’, nuclear nonproliferation — not just by adversaries but also by allies — is an essential pillar,” writes the Center for Nuclear Security Policy’s Vipin Narang and Pranay Vaddi with

The US runs a surplus in manufacturing trade with Canada, so if the goal of the tariffs is to reindustrialize the United States, the trade war with Canada is doubly counter-productive 1/

🚨 Just in: Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025. By Hans Kristensen (also on Bluesky) Matt Korda Eliana Johns Mackenzie Knight-Boyle (mknight.bsky.social) of Federation of American Scientists🔬 In Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/premium/2025-0… #China #ballisticmissiles #nucleararsenals #nuclearweapons

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Why can a direct comparison of two countries’ defense budget be misleading? M. Taylor Fravel explains: “no two countries in their published defense budgets report spending on the exact same categories.” Learn more here: bit.ly/PRCDefenseSpen…

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

I can confirm I've replicated the CEA calculation for the so-called "tariffs charged to the USA" on these charts. It is the Census FT900 trade data, exhibit 4, for year 2024, and the formula is MAX(10%,(imports-exports)/imports) per-country on a customs basis.

Today’s Wall Street Journal front page:

This is an amazing resource for those interested in maps and geopolitics

Good morning. The United States now has the highest tariff rates in the world.

We calculated that post Trump “put” today, the tariff mix is actually worse —China exports more consumer goods to US than other countries, so boosting that (to 125%) relative to others will boost the hit to consumption goods.

The container ships are still all going around.

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

Top Chinese general removed in latest Xi Jinping purge 2nd highest ranking uniformed member of the PLA on.ft.com/3RJEHD6

The US tariff exclusions announced on April 11 have reduced the risk of imports collapsing for some of the largest categories of imports from China that the US relies upon. Most non-excluded but China-reliant goods are consumer goods. The big exception is lithium-ion batteries.

Xi Urges Vietnam to Join China in Opposing ‘Unilateral Bullying’ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

RIP #RichardArmitage, former deputy secretary of state & giant in the Asia policy field, who passed away on Sunday. I interviewed "Sir Rich" for Lunch with the FT in 2007. #FreeToRead at on.ft.com/3YwE8Ae

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BREAKING: In an absolutely shocking clip, Karoline Leavitt says there will be NO reduction of tariffs on China despite Trump saying otherwise. This is an utter disaster for the economy and the stock market.