@Ree_Menon

@TheAsiaGroup @SAISHopkins + @HopkinsNanjing 📑,🇨🇳, 🌊, and 🗺️.

Joined March 2014
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Through hard work over many years, USIP has assembled arguably the best South Asia team of any institution in the US. It is expertise that will not easily be reassembled ever again. Let’s hope Congress does not let Trump eliminate this part of Reagan’s legacy so flippantly.
Lauren Blanchard@LaurenBinDC20 Feb 2025
In its latest executive order, the White House targets 4 "governmental entities" for elimination, including @USADF. Included is @USIP, which, unlike the others, is not a US federal agency. USIP was created by Congress an independent nonprofit corp. whitehouse.gov/presidential-…

Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:     Section 1.

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Milan Vaishnav@MilanV5 Oct 2022
.@nytimes: South Asia’s monsoon is inextricably linked, culturally and economically, to much of Asia. Climate change is making it increasingly violent and erratic. nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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In my latest article in Foreign Affairs, I explain why 2020 was an inflection point in India-China relations and why there's no going back to business as usual: foreignaffairs.com/china/chi…

China Has Lost India

Beijing’s aggression pushed New Delhi to the west.

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Phoenix TV posted this comic to simplify MCC in Nepal for the Chinese readers. Here's a thread on some of the interesting parts:
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Vidya@VidyaKrishnan27 Apr 2021
There isn't enough ink in the world to do justice to the massacre allowed to happen in #India . It is the greatest moral failure of our generation, I write for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/internationa…

India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing

The chamber of horrors the country now finds itself in was not caused by any one man, or any single government.

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🚨NEW: “What is Twitter? Can I get my wife hospitalised using that?” Akhil Prasad who stood outside Gangaram Hospital in Delhi said when I asked if he had looked for help on Twitter. My ground report for @entrackr and a 🧵entrackr.com/2021/04/what-is…
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Two members of India's national scientific taskforce on COVID-19, said that this year, the body met on 11 January, and then on 15 April and 21 April, after India was hit by the surge. @VidyaKrishnan reports: bit.ly/3dDkYSu #COVID19
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Production lines in India making at least 160m doses of covid vaccine a month may soon come to halt econ.st/3amm96N
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"While the world was distracted by the drama of the U.S. election, Xi quietly unveiled an economic strategy fit for a new Cold War." My first @NoemaMag essay on "dual circulation" — China's deeply pessimistic vision of future decoupling [1] noemamag.com/chinas-radical-…

China’s Radical New Vision Of Globalization | NOEMA

President Xi’s vision of “dual circulation” is a darkly pessimistic economic strategy, fit for a new Cold War.

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The Chinese Communist Party’s big plenary session is just about to begin in Beijing. Thinking about this important event, & the many challenges China faces, I'm struck by how much triumphalism is evident in the public pronouncements of the leadership. [THREAD]
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I think some people are a bit confused about how the shell game works in this great piece of @nytimes reporting on the Trump Organization, so here's a quick model that will hopefully clarify it a bit: nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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1/ Confused about what's happening on the China-India border? This week on #GrandTamasha, Ashley J. Tellis @CarnegieSAsia is a picture of clarity. Some highlights follow: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com…

Grand Tamasha

This week on this show, Milan sits down with the Carnegie Endowment’s Ashley J. Tellis, one of the world’s foremost experts on Indian foreign policy.

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1. The power of journalism lies with the people. I am happy to report that my recent @nytimes story about farmer suicides in India has unleashed a wave of support from readers around the world. nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world…

‘The Lockdown Killed My Father’: Farmer Suicides Add to India’s Virus Misery (Published 2020)

Farm bankruptcies and debts have been the source of misery in India for decades. But experts say the suffering has reached new levels in the pandemic.

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China’s love affair with the piano has flourished in the past century—four-fifths of the world’s pianos are now made in China. How did China make the Western instrument its own? econ.st/2DG1L3r

How China fell in love with the piano

China’s love affair with the piano has flourished in the past century—four-fifths of the world’s pianos are now made in China. How did China make the Western instrument its own?

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In a significant move, the Indian govt, w/o naming China, has banned 59 [Chinese] mobile apps "which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order" [no. 1 on the list: #TikTok]
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On the persistent political blindspots of India's China Policy: End of make-believe indianexpress.com/article/op… via @IndianExpress

Acknowledging Beijing’s rise, scale of challenge it presents, are first steps in crafting a new...

India must also recognise that China, like the great powers before it, wants to redeem its territorial claims, has the ambition to bend the neighbourhood to its will, reshape the global order to suit...

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🎧 On the latest episode of #InterpretingIndia, @srinathraghava3 is joined by Ashley J. Tellis as they discuss the origins and nature of the current Sino-Indian border confrontation. Listen to the podcast now: interpreting-india.simplecas…
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What does the clash at the China-India border mean for the countries' plans to disengage? How could the conflict impact the future of Chinese-Indian relations? Ashley J. Tellis explains:
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