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Step back from the tariff and think about it from a negotiation angle Trump believes offence is the best defence. So he throws out tariff to force others to negotiate. If you give in, he roll back tariff. So essentially Trump can get concession for nothing. This is the art of
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Trade War China announced retaliation on “Reciprocal” tariff China impose 34% tariff on all US imports starting from April 10 China Customs suspends import license for 6 US companies’ products (see below) China impose export controls on selected rare earth China adds Skydio
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I do not think that the government's formula is an appropriate way to think about reciprocal tariffs. And it is unclear what the note references or doesn’t from my research with Cavallo et al. But I believe our work suggests the value for the “elasticity of import prices to
USTR: "The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. The recent experience with U.S. tariffs on China has demonstrated that tariff passthrough to retail prices was low (Cavallo et al, 2021)." Cavallo et al: φ is 0.945. https://t.co/rIZfsgcZMu
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OK, the slide we’ve been waiting for: vaccine effectiveness. Both vaccines are excellent towards preventing severe/fatal disease and death
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The irony of calling China's diplomats "Wolf Warriors" is that they're actually pussies and cowards. The reason why the West is losing it is because of the change in the status quo: they're just LESS cowardly than before.
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In a so called “long-form journalism” piece, Raffi sure skipped through some of the most important & gory details of the 09 riot and the subsequent terrorist attacks. His writing makes light of the plight of the ppl devastated by those attacks, Uyghur and Han alike. A thread.
My piece in this week’s issue of @newyorker – titled “Ghost Walls” in the print edition – may be the most important thing that I've worked on at the magazine since I began writing there in 2007. /1 https://t.co/9CXZNzyhKE
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I'm gonna make a thread about key resources that I encountered as I researched Xinjiang/Uyghur accusations. No particular order, maybe vaguely chronological. This documentary critique by Sun Feiyang was the first, flipping the BBC narrative on its head. https://t.co/ehC3uYqG3m
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where I criticize the recent BBC video on Xinjiang
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I find most people can't reach the message from Chinese side to cross-verify the event of "Uyghur genocide". So I uploaded some videos made by ppl from Uyghur reeducation camp. They are only circulating in Chinese internet because they are labeled as "propaganda" in EU
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ICYMI, Matt Pottinger commissioned a 30,000 word screed to cover up his failure to contain COVID in the US. This was the most hagiographic piece of journalistic fiction I read in 2020. It’s as accurate as the score in a round of golf with Kim Jong-Il 1/
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The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.
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1/ A new Biden admin should take the opportunity to stabilize US-China relations before Trump's policies push it into a new Cold War. The foremost policy to change is America's sanctions on Huawei.
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Everyone needs to understand that the decline of SARS-CoV-2 Abs after the peak of infection is normal. This is basic immunology. If our immune system did not contract after viral infections, we would all be walking around with gigantic lymph nodes. SARS-CoV-2 Abs look good!
A new @NEJM report on rapid decay of #SARCoV2 antibodies in people with mild infections https://t.co/cgWcm32WsF For context of this finding, @DKThomp took it on yesterday https://t.co/cgWcm32WsF
@TheAtlantic and https://t.co/Jo8YQ5RRDz
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In April a group of Guangdong landlords & shop owners evicted a group of Africans. In response China: ▪️mass arrested the racist actors ▪️apologized to African Union ▪️paid for hotels for the migrants ▪️created laws & police force to punish discrimination https://t.co/wW8SZI8tyL
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What the public didn’t hear about the NIH remdesivir trial. This is not about the science, but about the way it was/was not communicated to the general public. https://t.co/yATbsg1szg
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Dr Ai Fen attended an online conference on covid-19 this afternoon local time. A weibo user joined the meeting and screen recorded a bit (link below). I was also meaning to join but it's a CN app and I couldn't register w/o CN number. Pic from her weibo. https://t.co/T1blujiLaD
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制度无非是某些学者讲的社会契约，但是休谟一语点破，根本不存在什么社会契约，有的只是习俗惯例，习俗惯例是文化的累积，那些妄图以制度是文化的防风衣来解读社会的人，其实并不懂社会的运作原理，
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