News Roundup
As a blitzkrieg on public services leaves many US officials struggling to catch their breaths (sovereign wealth fund, anyone?), the rest of the world starts to consider that decoupling, self-sufficiency, “Trump study sessions” and concessions might not be such a bad idea.
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As a palate cleanser, let’s have some kangaroo IVF.
Labubu in Asia, Jellycats elsewhere? We love us some kidult spending power.
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’s insightful take on understanding new China, check out my restacked note.Related to that, and as a brain soother to the hectic activity in the news roundup above,
offers that we should internalise the Chor Pharn Law: “If you know who you are, you get a civilizational war, if you don’t know who you are, you get a culture war.”Ponder
And in an excellent expansion of the CP Law above, let’s have Boyd’s Razor and some OODA to help us make sense of the world around us.