Jonathan Chung
@lyjchung.bsky.social
PhD student in American Studies at Yale University
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New paper out in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New paper out in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
@jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social
China Aspires to be an Environmental Leader: How Should the Rest of the World Engage?
It emerged from the Navigating Global China event @sppga.ubc.ca, Global Affairs Canada, & @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social
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"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
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I have a short piece out on the National Security Strategy: “a blueprint for spiraling U.S.–China conflict”.
quincyinst.org/research/the...
quincyinst.org/research/the...
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I have a short piece out on the National Security Strategy: “a blueprint for spiraling U.S.–China conflict”.
quincyinst.org/research/the...
quincyinst.org/research/the...
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To put it another way, *capital* is perfectly capable of organizing decarbonization. The problem is *capital-owners*, who are political actors and not just the embodiments of the accumulation process. Elon Musk is symptomatic here.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
To put it another way, *capital* is perfectly capable of organizing decarbonization. The problem is *capital-owners*, who are political actors and not just the embodiments of the accumulation process. Elon Musk is symptomatic here.
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In this paper, @jayatighosh.bsky.social talks about the dismantlement of the current system of aid, and how global public investment can fit in that picture.
GPI can preserve its best qualities while taking global cooperation into the 21st century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
GPI can preserve its best qualities while taking global cooperation into the 21st century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In this paper, @jayatighosh.bsky.social talks about the dismantlement of the current system of aid, and how global public investment can fit in that picture.
GPI can preserve its best qualities while taking global cooperation into the 21st century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
GPI can preserve its best qualities while taking global cooperation into the 21st century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Great essay from @timhirschelburns.bsky.social: constant invocations of the Third World show that MAGA’s aim of race and class hierarchy is as much a global as a domestic project.
Any genuine alternative to Trump politics needs to confront this head-on.
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/why-maga-c...
Any genuine alternative to Trump politics needs to confront this head-on.
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/why-maga-c...
Why MAGA Can't Stop Saying "Third World"
Don’t look up works best when you can convince people they need to be looking down
timhirschelburns.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Great essay from @timhirschelburns.bsky.social: constant invocations of the Third World show that MAGA’s aim of race and class hierarchy is as much a global as a domestic project.
Any genuine alternative to Trump politics needs to confront this head-on.
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/why-maga-c...
Any genuine alternative to Trump politics needs to confront this head-on.
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/why-maga-c...
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The sadism of reactionary politics is not the opposite of impersonal market exchange but its logical outcome
I know people think I’m too woo-woo about theory and capitalism and markets. But I sincerely believe this kind of degradation of micro-trust is the real social and economic rot. We constantly feel scammed and then we start reacting like marks instead of mutually reliant humans.
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The sadism of reactionary politics is not the opposite of impersonal market exchange but its logical outcome
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When we look at the useful stuff that LLMs give us, we should not think, how cool is this technology. We should think, what an amazing range of useful work people are willing to share online, freely, without any monetary compensation. Which the machine is just summarizing for us.
October 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
When we look at the useful stuff that LLMs give us, we should not think, how cool is this technology. We should think, what an amazing range of useful work people are willing to share online, freely, without any monetary compensation. Which the machine is just summarizing for us.
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“Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that Ms. Aahir said she ends up losing a week’s worth of work [recycling trash] each month because of dehydration and vomiting. Her already unstable income—she makes ₹200 (just over $2) on a good day—dries up.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
Women Toiling in India’s Insufferable Heat Face Mounting Toll on Health
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that Ms. Aahir said she ends up losing a week’s worth of work [recycling trash] each month because of dehydration and vomiting. Her already unstable income—she makes ₹200 (just over $2) on a good day—dries up.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
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i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
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When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.
September 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.
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Another problem with debate culture is that it prioritizes quick responses over slower, more careful thinking. It punishes saying “I don’t know. I need to look into that.” And it rewards unwarranted confidence.
September 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Another problem with debate culture is that it prioritizes quick responses over slower, more careful thinking. It punishes saying “I don’t know. I need to look into that.” And it rewards unwarranted confidence.
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It's rare in politics that you can see your attempted political strategy being tested in real time by an analogous party in another developed country that shares your language, and yet these idiots can't even bother with addressing why this isn't working for Labour.
it's just a total failure to understand the emotional and social roots of nativism, which cannot be defused with policy compromise
September 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's rare in politics that you can see your attempted political strategy being tested in real time by an analogous party in another developed country that shares your language, and yet these idiots can't even bother with addressing why this isn't working for Labour.
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everything I'm seeing about Abundance con is actually worse than the accusations I saw online about the abundance agenda, though I maybe follow tamer people than I used to
September 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
everything I'm seeing about Abundance con is actually worse than the accusations I saw online about the abundance agenda, though I maybe follow tamer people than I used to
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klein and thompson living up to the worst accusations of their critics tbh
September 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
klein and thompson living up to the worst accusations of their critics tbh
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a useful counterweight to the criticism the left endlessly gets on here for "purity testing" from liberals (and sectarianism among fellow travelers). having standards, principles, and self-respect is Good Actually
abundance con. where you can hear radical pro-abundance moves like "we should deport more immigrants" and "what if we had more tariffs"
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a useful counterweight to the criticism the left endlessly gets on here for "purity testing" from liberals (and sectarianism among fellow travelers). having standards, principles, and self-respect is Good Actually
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases
Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening”
www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening”
www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
D.C. grand jurors reject latest wave of Justice Dept. indictment requests
One former federal prosecutor said of the indictment denials by D.C. grand juries that he's "never heard of this happening."
www.cbsnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Reactionary nationalism (see also Vance or Cass) poses “our” concrete particularism against the abstract universalism of “the Left”—which somehow joins *neoliberal* universalism to identity politics *particularism*.
Conveniently forgotten: the concrete universality of Bernie/AOC/Mamdani populism.
Conveniently forgotten: the concrete universality of Bernie/AOC/Mamdani populism.
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reactionary nationalism (see also Vance or Cass) poses “our” concrete particularism against the abstract universalism of “the Left”—which somehow joins *neoliberal* universalism to identity politics *particularism*.
Conveniently forgotten: the concrete universality of Bernie/AOC/Mamdani populism.
Conveniently forgotten: the concrete universality of Bernie/AOC/Mamdani populism.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant
Philosophers don't want to admit it, but Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place) is a pretty close approximation of many real philosophers.
an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.
September 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant