
Heather Hurlburt
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Associate Fellow @chathamhouse. Recovering public servant. #actuallyautistic ally/mom. Personal account. RTs not endorsements. She/her.
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17-11-2011 15:58:02
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So let’s just get this crystal clear. If somebody is trying to manufacture a laptop in the U.S., the components that they import are going to be tariffed at 145%. But if somebody simply makes the laptop entirely in China, they are fully tariff free? And this is all to bring


Read the story and the thread with Robin Brooks below for important complexities. If you think you’ve got a simple analysis on US-China trade, from any side, you’re doing it wrong.

Words fail me. What Brad Setser Sander Tordoir and Noah Gordon said. Plus a gentle reminder that bashing the Biden Admin *seemed* cost-free.


Kayyem: Active duty Marines for this? I mean, we were just reporting on it. There's music. The traffic is moving. Most people in L.A. probably don't even know that this is going on. It's such a big, city, and we need an administration that's not going to get to defcon one every


The US can't counter Chinese mineral dominance because it doesn't consume enough minerals. The only option is to work with allies. Nice work by Gracelin Baskaran (Gracelin Baskaran) (Exports are generally less crucial to China than is assumed--its own market is massive.)




Thanks Jennifer Lind and colleagues for including me— a heady mix of theory and pragmatism.





Trump's savage toll: "More than 75,000 adults and children are now estimated to have died because of the effective shutdown of PEPFAR that began less than 6 months ago. "Another adult life is being lost every 3 minutes; a child dies every 31 minutes." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…


