You know what they say: there's nothing funnier than foreign policy. https://t.co/08KPKlS6fy
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) July 23, 2020
1/ The entire world is consumed by the rapid spread of COVID-19. @CSISHealth experts Steve Morrison and Anna Carroll look at what a post-COVID-19 world might look like and what paths the pandemic might take. https://t.co/0LlhZRyRq9
— CSIS (@CSIS) April 2, 2020
Highlight: “There is a broader perception and acceptance that China is a strategic competitor,” @Stratfor VP of Strategic Analysis Rodger Baker says. Full interview: pic.twitter.com/n0lrVLpH5c
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) July 22, 2020
In my latest @Stratfor podcast, I provided a quick summary of what exactly has been happening in the #IndiaChinaFaceoff in #Ladakh, and how exactly we've been tracking it together with subject matter experts in the OSINT community like @detresfa_.https://t.co/RTMKCebgOt
— Sim Tack (@SimTack) July 24, 2020
OUT NOW: The newest issue of @wilsonquarterly
Korea: 70 Years On https://t.co/LB0SQnTDFO
— The Wilson Center (@TheWilsonCenter) June 16, 2020
The Trump administration's effort to close the Chinese consulate in Houston, @kristinejlee27 tells @thehill, represents a "fairly significant escalation in the bilateral relationship that's been in a near-continuous downward spiral." Read more: https://t.co/84QPyoBpYM
— CNAS (@CNASdc) July 26, 2020
In a speech at Hudson, @FBI Director Wray called Chinese espionage the "greatest long-term threat" to U.S. economic and national security. To combat this threat, the U.S. has now ordered the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston.
Read more here:https://t.co/B2f7Ham4wk
— Hudson Institute (@HudsonInstitute) July 22, 2020
John Lewis makes one final journey across a bridge in Selma, Alabama that will hopefully soon bear his name.
Grateful for Lewis’s decades of work to promote voting rights and resist injustice. He is a true American hero.pic.twitter.com/gQNI7raVMI
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) July 26, 2020
Now for all 50 states, DC, and all five permanently inhabited US territories:
Our review of relevant state/territory laws authorizing quarantine or isolation, by Samantha Fry, Eric Halliday, Masha Simonova, and Jacques Singer-Emery:https://t.co/BgAHgfrPbu
— Lawfare (@lawfareblog) April 2, 2020
What does pollution in Canada in the 1930s have to do with attempts to sue #China for the #coronavirus pandemic?
Contrary to what a recent #SenateJudiciary hearing might suggest, @CUNYLaw & @CUER_nyc’s Rebecca Bratspies argues not much.
#COVID19 https://t.co/qCMKg9e7cw— Just Security (@just_security) July 14, 2020
In today’s Must Read from @just_security, @jendaskal, @ritasiemion, and @bridgewriter discuss how Congress can place limitations on the Authorization for Use of Military Force to rebalance war powers.https://t.co/cyKAyQbjuY
— Foreign Policy for America (@FP4America) July 14, 2020
Prof. Neil Kleiman argues that the pandemic could provide an opportunity to reexamine the relationship between the state and local governments and the balance of power between them. | @routefifty https://t.co/KJZf4SSX0W pic.twitter.com/VAGT5XYLqO
— NYU Wagner (@NYUWagner) May 15, 2020
Bad news for those promoting evidence-based public health narratives: Most of the information about #COVID19 treatments reaching Twitter users came from ideological sources, according to our analysis. Read our research summary to learn more. https://t.co/x00tCs32Ue
— The Center for Social Media and Politics (@SMaPP_NYU) July 15, 2020
Prof Lawrence White weighs in on the #US housing market amid #Covid19, via @realtordotcom: https://t.co/2CqiD7Slv3
— NYU Stern (@NYUStern) July 23, 2020
"The smog created by our history of racial injustice is still in the air and we’re still breathing it in and it’s corrupting our world view, just like it corrupted the world view of people before us"—Prof. Bryan Stevenson in @voxdotcom: https://t.co/3b5hwLzxIB
— NYU Law (@nyulaw) July 20, 2020
This article has a timeline of Stone’s contacts with Guccifer 2.0, which U.S. officials have described as a front for Russian intelligence https://t.co/1EGekOALiP
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) July 11, 2020
This dynamic graph tells the sad story of what Trump’s abject mishandling of America’s response to COVID-19 has done to millions of us: https://t.co/LnaPlXPvTu
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1285139713993650177
Why is gold going up? https://t.co/pTkVj89MSz
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 27, 2020
Chinese authorities took control of the former U.S. consulate in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu on Monday after it was ordered closed in retaliation for a U.S. order to vacate the Chinese consulate in Houston https://t.co/Mjmig6BS4i
— TIME (@TIME) July 27, 2020
Will #COVID19 have relatively big or relatively small effects on the overall international system? @brucebrookings and @WillRuger debate: https://t.co/I9E5bnrsGX
— Brookings FP (@BrookingsFP) July 27, 2020
“An ideological struggle is underway between China and free societies, but Trump is on the wrong side.” @thomaswright08 on Secretary Pompeo’s recent speech on China: https://t.co/ZytMCr4eVJ
— BrookingsInst (@BrookingsInst) July 27, 2020
China's economic slowdown hasn't stopped its oncoming environmental catastrophe, Richard Smith writes.https://t.co/kamBmsuFSM
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) July 27, 2020
“What is killing us is not connection; it is connection without cooperation.” In our July/August issue, four essays examine the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the bungled response, and the world that will emerge in the wake of the crisis.https://t.co/vYfm54rh2Y
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) June 10, 2020
Will eating flatbread that looks like a face mask remind you of the importance of wearing face masks?
This Indian restaurant thinks so. pic.twitter.com/afL8p7AqdK
— DW News (@dwnews) July 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/France24_en/status/1286594722698416131
Why we have blood types and what purpose they serve is still largely unknown, and very little is known about their links to viruses and disease. https://t.co/Vs4HucU3iP
— CNN (@CNN) July 16, 2020
Many #COVID19 survivors are still experiencing lingering effects such as severe exhaustion and memory loss months after they test negative or get discharged.@drtaranarula spoke to some of these "long-haulers" about how they're feeling and what doctors are doing to help. pic.twitter.com/AfJkcz4v4G
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 16, 2020
JUST IN: U.S., U.K. and Canada say Russian hackers are targeting coronavirus vaccine research https://t.co/diMOAHh3ah
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 16, 2020
Where Americans live and how much income they earn can still determine the ease with which they get a COVID-19 test. https://t.co/WY7GlL9fkn
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) July 22, 2020
The Bahamas will close its doors to American citizens starting this week, the country’s prime minister said Sunday, announcing a ban on commercial flights and vessels from the U.S. There is no ban on travel from Canada or the European Union. https://t.co/8cgbNFP1yw pic.twitter.com/0BpscZXdct
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 20, 2020
Lovely line from Harold James @ProSyn https://t.co/LFA15WdtMX Soviet Union had a large, complicated planning & resource-allocation apparatus that attracted the society’s best-educated people, only to consign them to unproductive & frequently destructive tasks. The US has Wall St
— Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman) July 8, 2020
Navy vet who says he was injured in clash with federal officers in Portland tells @ABC he wants to use attention on him "to refocus this whole discussion back to Black Lives Matter."
“If I had been a black veteran…do you think I would have gotten as much attention as I did?” pic.twitter.com/btq0wD61QH
— ABC News (@ABC) July 22, 2020
Timelapse footage shows the illuminated night sky as Comet Neowise made its way above Minnesota. https://t.co/njQb8Oce1H pic.twitter.com/tShFSQKR0k
— ABC News (@ABC) July 16, 2020
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all visible to the naked eye across the continental United States for the next two weeks. https://t.co/2qocfynuqh
— ABC News (@ABC) July 16, 2020
🌪
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton says
enslaving Black people was a "necessary evil.
And Hurricane Hanna
crushes Trump’s Wall
on the same day?
Sounds Biblical…
🇺🇸#1u #UnionStrong #TrumpIsACompleteFailurepic.twitter.com/wzSNl0eMfh
— Marc Perrone (@Marc_Perrone) July 27, 2020
Hurricane Hanna destroys Donald Trump's border wall as storm batters coast https://t.co/lyP7Omt2Qh
— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) July 27, 2020
BREAKING: American Doctors Address COVID-19 Misinformation with SCOTUS Press Conference… https://t.co/kAiNLcaTpu
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/macrocredit/status/1284455663159173120
No more handshakes? EU leaders flaunted their new greeting styles at the EU summit this week. pic.twitter.com/XbArsjmoFK
— DW News (@dwnews) July 25, 2020
As Covid cases surge elsewhere, #Italy has gone from overwhelmed to exemplary: @thedailybeast's @BLNadeau tells of strict & ambitious random testing. "Strangely, the Italians are following the rules which is something in my 25 years here I have never seen before."#WorldThisWeek pic.twitter.com/59REuT3cG0
— François Picard (@FrancoisF24) July 24, 2020
This week we remember the July 2012 #Hezbollah terror attack at Burgas airport in #Bulgaria, that claimed the lives of 6 innocent people. An appropriate day to once again urge the European Union and its member states to list Hezbollah in its entirety as a terror group (📷 ZAKA) pic.twitter.com/BAuJvw0NYN
— Alon Ushpiz (@AlonUshpiz) July 19, 2020
Viktor Orban says 'the Dutchman' is responsible for EU summit disarray https://t.co/2Zjr7t2Z00 pic.twitter.com/GOXl7Q6ukU
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 19, 2020
Elbow taps and head nods were amongst the most popular forms of greeting as European Union leaders met for summit talks on a multi-billion-euro plan to breathe life into their economies https://t.co/0l2UamtCZl pic.twitter.com/rhoHwowMCZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 17, 2020
Spain to receive 140 billion euros from EU recovery fund, half in grants https://t.co/iFbstluvEY pic.twitter.com/8Jcw9gorPs
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/DiEM_25/status/1286676507696549890
Worth recalling that Spain made biggest initial push for grants. https://t.co/dSOy1qusD6
— Duncan Robinson (@duncanrobinson) July 22, 2020
EU leaders agreed to a €1.8 trillion pandemic recovery plan built around the unprecedented sale of hundreds of billions of euros of common debt https://t.co/9DiqUrDbXf
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 21, 2020
LIVE: Arrivals and doorstep statements at #EU #Summit https://t.co/xUCQyJ4viR
— Shauntv (@shauntvGlobal) July 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/BrugesGroup/status/1284898701153107970
https://twitter.com/dw_business/status/1286368733460496388
https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1285458233629401088
Very interesting. Perhaps the beginnings of a realistic assessment of Ireland’s membership of the EU #irexit https://t.co/VBwYGOfkNn
— Kate Hoey (@CatharineHoey) July 23, 2020
Europe fears coronavirus second wave amid spikes in Spain, France, Germany https://t.co/AkMHvoTT7J
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 28, 2020
£750bn EU recovery fund.
The UK gets ZEROhttps://t.co/uS79puExiP
— EU Flag Mafia (@EUflagmafia) July 21, 2020
UK monthly GDP in May only rose 1.8%, but the lockdown was still largely in force.
Google mobility data lets us compare the UK lockdown with other countries.
It suggests that June data will also be disappointing, but the UK should start to catch up in July. pic.twitter.com/KyZJlMPPCv
— John Springford (@JohnSpringford) July 14, 2020
Worth reading from @GavinJKelly1 of @resfoundation Talking about a revolution? by @GavinJKelly1 https://t.co/kC7ygAM5f5
— Ian Goldin (@ian_goldin) June 30, 2020
Higher mobile phone charges, costly private health insurance, delays at the border & more expensive holidays. Welcome to Tory Brexitland. https://t.co/3oj8jqonXQ
— Ben Bradshaw (@BenPBradshaw) July 13, 2020
German MEP Gunnar Beck ‘celebrated Brexit as a move that has saved Britain sending billions of pounds to the European Union's coronavirus recovery fund.’
— Belinda de Lucy (@BelindadeLucy) July 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1285929715300274177
What happens when you do not let an insult slide.
UK MP's need to apply this approach. pic.twitter.com/FqzXsYxjyr— James (@SoNowUknow2) July 19, 2020
Leicester's sweatshops have been an open secret for years. Central government knew; local government knew; retailers knew. Now the bill for inaction has come due. https://t.co/YCdteGJAgR
— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) July 3, 2020
WOW & IN ONE SHORT YEAR THE UNION HAS FALLEN APART
GO YOU!
YOU HAVE DESTROYED EVERYTHING YOU’VE TOUCHED
THE MOST HATED MAN IN THE COUNTRY WOW WHAT AN ACHIEVEMENT THAT IS pic.twitter.com/NlwUTXEO32
— Lynnette Lock #Welsh #3.5%#HateTheToryParty (@itsallymcmental) July 22, 2020