Actually, my job here is to help develop sound economic statecraft to protect my part of the world from the MAGA "America First" geoeconomics of a globally irresponsible United States.

(And when I do that here, I'm not being just a development economist.)

DannyQuah.github.io/Storage/2025...

... that uses both foreign policy and national economic tools to advance personal self-interest:

NYT 2025 "Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex" (25 May)

Of course, others went to Princeton too. But not all who start together end up in the same place.