Douglas Dillon Professor @Kennedy_School | Former Director @BelferCenter | Author of "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap?"
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1/ What did Canada’s Prime Minister @MarkJCarney discuss with Xi Jinping when they met in Beijing?
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3/ Caught between a rapidly rising power like China and a colossal ruling power like the US, middle powers like Canada need thoughtful, courageous, and agile leaders like Carney to chart a path through the turbulence.
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4/ A graduate of Harvard with a doctorate from Oxford, Carney has not only read his Thucydides, he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to apply lessons learned in attempting to navigate a path that engages the Trump administration on the one hand while also building a “more stable and constructive partnership” with China on the other. x.com/MarkJCarney/status/206…
May 29
Canada and China are building a more stable and constructive partnership.
Building on the progress made during my visit to China earlier this year, Minister Wang Yi and I focused on creating new opportunities and greater prosperity on both sides of the Pacific.
ALT Prime Minister Carney meets with Minister Wang Yi of China in Ottawa, Ontario.
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May 28
1/ Harvard Kennedy School 2026 graduates include a Medal of Honor recipient: Patrick Payne.
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4/ In awarding then Sergeant Major Patrick Payne the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on September 11, 2020, President Trump said: “Pat has said that as soon as our soldiers’ boots hit the ground, they are ambassadors of the American way of life. Everywhere they go, the men and women of our armed forces instill our friends with hope, our enemies with dread and our fellow citizens with unyielding American pride.”
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5/ Patrick’s Medal was awarded for his part in one of the most amazing hostage rescue missions in US military history that freed 75 ISIS hostages who were about to be executed. For more on the story, read here. army.mil/medalofhonor/payne/
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May 25
1/ As we fire up our grills for Memorial Day and look forward to July 4th when we will celebrate the 250th birthday of this nation, we should all pause and reflect.
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May 25
8/ As we now see the US struggling to extricate itself from an unnecessary war with Iran, this imperative rings even more loudly.
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9/ Any President who sends Americans to die in a war that is not necessary to ensure the fundamental freedoms of Americans has a greater burden of proof to clearly explain why.
President Trump has yet to pass that test in his war against Iran.
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9/ In the Iranian Revolutionary Guard staff college classes on asymmetric warfare in the 1990s, young officers were taught that by “eroding the war and prolonging it,” the economic and political costs of war with Iran could be made unacceptable, even for a superpower like the US.
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Fascinating footage released by the IRGC of a class at the org's staff college in the 90s, where future IRGC leader Hossein Salami teaches a course on asymmetric warfare, teaching officers how to drag out a war with the US by driving up economic costs and political turmoil.
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10/ Academic analysts offered similar warnings, for example, Caitlin Talmadge’s 2008 article in International Security @IntSecHarvard that describes a plausible scenario in which Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, choking global energy markets.
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