Trump is utterly clueless about everything other than a carnival barker's ability to yell and get people to pay attention to him. If one reviews his actual business history, it is a string of bankruptcies, lawsuits, and general failures. He was essentially tanked, when the TV show...which he didn't think of or produce...breathed new life into his miserable personage. Even the ghost author of his book "Art Of The Deal" has stated it's all inflated baloney and he wishes he'd never got involved.
The power of TV and media to negatively influence politics, as described by Neil Postman in the 1980's with his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death", is playing out IRL.
Neil Postman argued that modern media—especially television—had transformed serious public discourse into entertainment. His central idea was not simply that television showed too much entertainment, but that the form of television made politics, news, religion, and education increasingly resemble show business.
What I admire about Stephen Roach is that even though I do not always agree with him, I never doubt the seriousness of his convictions. In this case, regarding Trump, I agree with him entirely. In a public sphere crowded with career-safe commentary and hedged institutional language, Roach still writes with moral and intellectual clarity. His criticism of American strategic incoherence therefore carries the force of a public intellectual who has retained something increasingly rare: integrity.
What does this mean for China’s other red lines that Xi insists the US must respect — control over its other territories (like Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Tibet) , the ruling monopoly of the Chinese Communist Party, and its right to development by resisting any US containment efforts? By sharpening the Taiwan red line, is Xi effectively diminishing importance of the others? At a minimum, this is a very confusing message to send. More worrisome for China is that this approach may well undermine Xi’s his multiple red-line negotiating strategy with the US.?
Xi wants would-be predators to know exactly what China—which is much bigger, richer and more powerful than the US—will tolerate in future.
Consistency always trump over so called red line inflation. China has been most consistent about its sovereignty while TACO forever violates weaker nations’ sovereignty. What’s happening in Iran with the on off deals and no deals is classic symptoms of a declining hegemon. That’s what make TACO dangerous. One day he’s BFF with Netanyahu, 24 hours later, he berates him as fcuking crazy. Takes one to know one
Trump is utterly clueless about everything other than a carnival barker's ability to yell and get people to pay attention to him. If one reviews his actual business history, it is a string of bankruptcies, lawsuits, and general failures. He was essentially tanked, when the TV show...which he didn't think of or produce...breathed new life into his miserable personage. Even the ghost author of his book "Art Of The Deal" has stated it's all inflated baloney and he wishes he'd never got involved.
The power of TV and media to negatively influence politics, as described by Neil Postman in the 1980's with his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death", is playing out IRL.
Neil Postman argued that modern media—especially television—had transformed serious public discourse into entertainment. His central idea was not simply that television showed too much entertainment, but that the form of television made politics, news, religion, and education increasingly resemble show business.
And here we are.
What I admire about Stephen Roach is that even though I do not always agree with him, I never doubt the seriousness of his convictions. In this case, regarding Trump, I agree with him entirely. In a public sphere crowded with career-safe commentary and hedged institutional language, Roach still writes with moral and intellectual clarity. His criticism of American strategic incoherence therefore carries the force of a public intellectual who has retained something increasingly rare: integrity.
What does this mean for China’s other red lines that Xi insists the US must respect — control over its other territories (like Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Tibet) , the ruling monopoly of the Chinese Communist Party, and its right to development by resisting any US containment efforts? By sharpening the Taiwan red line, is Xi effectively diminishing importance of the others? At a minimum, this is a very confusing message to send. More worrisome for China is that this approach may well undermine Xi’s his multiple red-line negotiating strategy with the US.?
Xi wants would-be predators to know exactly what China—which is much bigger, richer and more powerful than the US—will tolerate in future.
What's so strange about that?
Consistency always trump over so called red line inflation. China has been most consistent about its sovereignty while TACO forever violates weaker nations’ sovereignty. What’s happening in Iran with the on off deals and no deals is classic symptoms of a declining hegemon. That’s what make TACO dangerous. One day he’s BFF with Netanyahu, 24 hours later, he berates him as fcuking crazy. Takes one to know one