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Paul Nadeau

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Trade, politics, and geoeconomics. Editor of Tokyo Review, adjunct professor with Temple University Japan, visiting research fellow with the Institute of Geoeconomics/Asia Pacific Initiative, should be GM of the Montreal Canadiens. Usual disclaimers.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 12m

So is it an American thing if I just run through the lights at night?

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 24m

That's how I know you're new here...*never* forget to take the oyajis into account (they'll be the first to remind you)

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 25m

Tried it myself and got these results, so I'll catch you on the flip side of this wormhole

Series of Google search results related to the Ottoman Empire in space

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 28m

In my experience, right of way always defers to the oyajis because they never stop their cars for anything but traffic lights, so I'm personally good with keeping the lights

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

I think that Venn diagram is a circle for Aso

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Good for him

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

She'll need to fight off the MOFA bureaucrats that will be standing between her and the shrine

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair there are a lot of good Japan politics analysts over there, particularly writing in Japanese, but the English language discourse is as bad as ever

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway here's the state of Japan politics discourse on the other site

When I was teaching "Japan in the foreign imagination" at Keio and other universities, I always said

"The key to writing about Japan is to never let facts stand in your way."

Current writing about Takaichi Sanae shows my formula to be widely accepted and practiced.

Koizumi should never run in LDP leadership elections after this. Never. Again.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Japan finally avoiding catching strays for one

Portrait of Takaichi Sanae giving peace sign with her hand

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

idk, if gerald curtis said "lol you're doomed" I would just quit

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Could exist, but pushing back on trade would mean compromising on other Trump priorities that they support

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Then there's also the fact that no one really votes their interests anymore, if they ever did <waves at red state farmers>. Sure, a lot of sectors and exporters are being hurt by Trump's tariffs, but color me skeptical that they'll ever switch their vote in the near- to medium-term.

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Instead, they're quixotically trying to rebuild the New Deal coalition and using economic concerns to do that. While that draws them away from redoubling on cities, the way elections are structured for better or worse means you can't win with cities alone, so it's off to the Rust Belt

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Thing is, political support for free trade/protectionism follows which sectors and demographics make up the political base, and if Democrats are the party of the cities (as they seem to be) and since cities benefit most from free trade, it follows that Democrats *should* be the party of free trade

Will the Democrats Become the Party of Free Trade?

Another partisan reversal on trade presents itself.

danieldrezner.substack.com

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

There's a lot to like in this post by @simonlester.com, but his reiteration that trade can promote peace is something the economic security hawks need to remember. The whole point of the liberal economic order was to use interconnectedness to build security, not undermine it as the hawks insist

Beware the "Securitization" of Trade Policy

In recent years, U.S. trade policy has seen a creeping takeover by "security" concerns. The precise scope of these concerns is unclear, but they appear to cover both the traditional aspects of militar...

ielp.worldtradelaw.net

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Daikons last too long though

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

I remember having a conversation maybe last year about what the equivalent Japanese vegetable would be. Maybe it was komatsuna, but I'm open to suggestions

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile the LDP posts she's named so far feel less like a unity slate and more like an Aso Taro victory lap. We'll see what happens with the cabinet, but it's starting to feel more like a revenge tour than an effort to reunite the party

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting Prof. Curtis can still fill a room at LDP headquarters when he comes to Japan. He's well-connected in the party and has lots of friends in senior leadership, so I doubt he says any of this lightly or casually.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

It's definitely not beyond the realm of possibility

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

I reject any attempt to make people’s lives better under protectionism and instead call for its complete overthrow.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 3d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, is proposing $2,000 payments to Americans making under $100,000

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 1d

The emeritus dean of Japan politics studies in the U.S. has thoughts about Takaichi:

Gerald Curtis: Takaichi victory hastens LDP's collapse; 'not if, when'

Veteran Japan watcher worried about what comes after the 'most boring election'

asia.nikkei.com

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