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Yuan Yi Zhu

@yuanyiz.bsky.social

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Assistant professor of international relations and international law | sometime political advisor | All views mine alone | find me on Twitter at @yuanyi_z

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'm going to be honest: if you can't find Mississauga on a map I'm not interested in your Canadian political analysis.

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social · 1d

Some people have fought monsters for so long that they become the mirror image of their opponents. Sad!

Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social · 1d

In which I try to explain to Americans the Chagos surrender deal. www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3829...

How the UK bullied itself into giving away the Chagos Islands

In 2024, the United Kingdom agreed to possibly one of the worst real estate deals in recorded history.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe we are returning to normal. A very funny piece about American revolutionary war re-enactors, with no political derangement (and a half admission that loyalists were good people). www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor

Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.

www.theatlantic.com

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