My thoughts on Taiwan's democracy, the state of global democracy, and whether there is a "good populism" that can deliver for democracy, chatting with "Global Roaming" on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

Donald Trump's policies to dismantle our institutions for international engagement are undermine our scientific research and technological innovation will make American weak again--a second-rate power.

Superb column by Fareed Zakaria explaining how Trump's xenophobic war on our core American strengths--including our universities, research centers, and recruitment of the best global talent--is enabling China to surpass the US as the global leader.

Amid the Trump Administration's relentless assaults on civil liberties and the rule of law, there are both new causes for concern and glimmers of hope for American democracy. but a gathering danger to to freedom worldwide. For more, read my new column:

"Here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most  foreign to it & out of place — the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else’s keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan."

An exceptionally important essay by the leader of Turkey's democratic opposition, now a political prisoner, Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. We should loudly demand his release . Why Turkey’s democratic future matters for the world via @ft.

What we can do to push back against Trump's authoritarian agenda:

Edward Luce offers a brilliant and searing analysis of how far America has fallen in global standing and soft power. The damage Trump has done in ten weeks of cruelty and chaos is incalculable. “Ten weeks that shook the world” via #FTEdit

Great statements by Princeton President Eisgruber and AAU President Snyder on the Trump Administration's cancellation of $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University. I hope many other university presidents will also speak up.

RT @Malinowski: Last night, a credulous Senate passed a bill that purported to keep our government open. One thing the bill funded was the….

Every new day brings a new gift from Trump to Putin. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was informed today that its federal grant agreement was terminated. Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.Shared via the Google app

"Trump aspires to be a geopolitical shoplifter. He wants to stuff his pockets with Greenland, Panama, Canada and Gaza . and then run back to his American safe house. Our postwar allies have never seen this America before."

Trump's drastic proposed cuts to federal support for science & engineering research & development will do staggering damage to U.S. economic competitiveness & national security. A massive gift to technologically surging China. Great work by @colemcfaul.

RT @sbg1: Still not sure the extent to which Americans understand that Trump’s demands right now are Putin’s demands.

How shameful and sickening to side with Putin against Ukraine on such a straightforward question.

We came to know Jesús as a courageous, principled democrat when he participated in our Fisher Family Summer Fellows program @StanfordCDDRL. We consider his unjust detention a crime and call for his immediate unconditional release. #LiberenAJesusArmas. Liberen #Venezuela.

Excellent analysis by Mike McFaul on why Trump's zero-sum coercive diplomacy is making America weak again. China will win this global contest if we don't change course. The Limits of Coercive Power, by @McFaul

From Sen. Chris Murphy: The stakes in the illegal assault on USAID. How to make Russia, China and Iran Great Again.

This is utter lunacy. A sure formula to destroy any prospect for peace and security in the Middle East and to further undermine America's globall legitimacy and soft power that Trump has been shredding.

Imagine how gleeful Communist China, Communist Cuba, Putin, Kim Jong Un, Iran's ayatollahs, & other tyrants are at Trump's moves to shut down USAID, kill NED, trash the UN system, and withdraw from the world. A giant gift to our adversaries and a massive blow to global freedom.