Jake Werner
@jwdwerner.bsky.social
Historian, director for East Asia @quincyinst.bsky.social, cofounder Justice Is Global. Previously @gdp-center.bsky.social, University of Chicago. Writing on US–China relations and global capitalism.
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
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The campaign to discredit China’s lending in the Global South worked because Americans don’t know the US record is so similar. But it won’t have the same effect when everyone has already experienced these same supposedly Chinese abuses at the hands of the US tech companies.
The core problem with Biden foreign policy was its hardening of geopolitical blocs. Rejecting a global reform agenda to open positive-sum possibilities, they drove up geopolitical pressures in all regions. These people must never return to power, but so too the whole approach.
Jake Werner@jwdwerner.bsky.social · 2w agoCold War liberals arming US allies were often uncomfortable with the torture and mass murder. They accepted complicity to maintain geopolitical blocs. Likewise the Biden people took part in endless atrocities in Gaza because they refused peace with Iran. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Cold War liberals arming US allies were often uncomfortable with the torture and mass murder. They accepted complicity to maintain geopolitical blocs. Likewise the Biden people took part in endless atrocities in Gaza because they refused peace with Iran. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
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Forget freedom of navigation: it’s now a battle for whose piracy will prevail. Perfect example of what happens when liberal internationalists hitch their wagon to Trump.
Attn: Marxists, classical political economists, marginalists, and physiocrats— A revolutionary new theory of value just dropped
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
Glad to see this getting attention. But where we take it makes a world of difference. The point isn’t new: I’ve been making it for a decade, and that was based on heterodox pol econ literature of the 80s–90s. But it was inadmissible under neoliberal hegemony. Why the change? 1/
A few years ago the distinction between productive and speculative investment was coming back, but serving Biden’s geopolitical conflict. Rackets like below are everywhere now. Let’s land productive vs predatory investment as the distinction—it’s about human needs not international domination.
The Supreme Court ALSO gives Trump another pass on racism, declaring that his horrific and bigoted comments against Haitians are actually not evidence of racism and that the plaintiffs cannot show evidence of racial bias, essentially plugging their ears and letting Trump spew filth as policy.
![The Court assumes for the sake of argument that heightened scrutiny applies and that it must determine whether a “discriminatory purpose [was] a motivating factor in the decision” to terminate Haiti’s TPS
designation, Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development
Corp., 429 U. S. 252, 265–266. Because application of that standard
calls for consideration of the context in which a challenged statement
was made, id., at 267–268, the immigration context is an important
factor.
None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary
was overtly racial, and in substance all expressed policy views that
could rest on race-neutral justifications. Viewing all the relevant evidence, Miot respondents are unlikely to prove that race was a motivating factor in the decision to terminate Haiti’s TPS designation, and it
follows that they are not entitled to interim relief on their equal protection claim. Pp. 20–24](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreif6utfi3d52wb76c2oyse67yses7xjvecvcu7kucd3h2fhl72ud4y)
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.
![MULLIN v. DOE
Syllabus
that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation violated the constitutional right to equal protection because it was motivated by race. The
District Court granted interim relief, and a divided D. C. Circuit panel
declined to issue a stay. The Government sought a stay and a writ of
certiorari before judgment in both cases. This Court granted review,
consolidated the cases, and deferred ruling on the stay applications.
Held:
1. The TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims.
Pp. 12–18.
(a) Section 1254a(b)(5)(A) provides that “[t]here is no judicial review
of any determination of the [Secretary of Homeland Security] with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation,
of a foreign state.” The term “determination” may mean either an individual decision or the process leading to a decision. Under either
understanding, §1254a(b)(5)(A) bars all of respondents’ non-constitutional claims. Further, the phrase “with respect to” “generally has a
broadening effect, ensuring that the scope of a provision covers not
only its subject but also matters relating to that subject.” Patel v. Garland, 596 U. S. 328, 339 (internal quotation marks omitted). Pp. 12–
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. @jwdwerner.bsky.social unpacks how the U.S. foreign policy establishment redefined China from "a troublesome part of the US-dominated global system to an intrinsically alien presence within the system and its foremost threat" via @amprestigepod.bsky.social americanprestigepod.com/episodes/277...
American Prestige
“American Prestige” takes a comprehensive look at U.S. foreign policy and int'l affairs, providing listeners with everything they need to know about what's going on in the world.
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"If the U.S. had simply been able to emulate the progress of these 34 peer nations in the developed world, 63,441 lives otherwise lost to traffic violence could have been saved over the last decade alone."
On @ezraklein.bsky.social, @mattduss.bsky.social plants the flag: • Progressive FP’s precondition is to break with Biden personnel and their aim of reviving US hegemony • Its substance is solidarity: reform so different nationalities are not pitted against each other, so all workers enjoy security
Matt Duss@mattduss.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe need a new US foreign policy that promotes peace and solidarity Mu conversation with @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
PERSONAL NEWS: I've joined the @newyorker.com full-time as a global-affairs columnist, where I'll be writing a weekly essay on the world. It's a dream gig and I'm still pinching myself that I get to say all these incredible, talented journalists I've long admired are my colleagues!
Michael Luo@michaelluo.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome news from @newyorker.com. Welcome @jesusrodriguez.work @ishaantharoor.bsky.social!
Check out the pic on top right, a graphic depiction of the blood being squeezed from the tomato-peasantry while the tomato-aristocrat looks on with quiet satisfaction
Retired Mascots {on partial hiatus until 10 August}@retiredmascots.bsky.social · 2mo agoMr. Aristocrat Tomato Man Heinz 1934-1970 Heinz's Aristocra-tomato was created by Maxon to help symbolise the excellent quality of Heinz ketchup/juice tomatoes. After appearing in magazines alongside his ancestors during the 1930's, he was last seen in a colouring book in 1970, renamed Tom Tomato.
That Trump II used Hegseth's D-Day address to advance its racist and revisionist fallacies in the pettiest of ways is a cowardly political offense to its European allies. That it is using the World Cup to do so is a cowardly political offense to the world and to international sports.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2mo agoAward-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
My recent interview on @amprestigepod.bsky.social is now open to all! We discussed in detail my new research: how US foreign policy world abruptly redefined China as alien to the US system. What broke the relationship was less China’s actions than the sharp US crisis of authority in 2018.
This is silly but should be taken seriously. It’s a warning. Want to reform anything in our oligarchy? Then they’ll denounce you as a Chinese stooge. Geopolitical conflict always reinforces domestic hierarchies. Shame on those who indulge it. @jeffstein.bsky.social: www.notus.org/congress/way...
Republicans Are Investigating Anti-Data-Center Nonprofits Over Their China Ties
The House Ways and Means Committee chair said nonprofits are trying to “sow discord and chaos within the American citizenry” to China’s benefit.
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Ok things are getting good now From last September:
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo agoTrump says he is appointing his ally and loyalist Bill Pulte as Acting DNI. Pulte has no national intelligence experience, but he has used his current role as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to pursue phony mortgage fraud allegations against Trump’s political opponents.
In @thenation.com, my thoughts on the Trump–Xi summit. Some hopeful possibilities, but it was more notable for dramatizing the miserable choice US elites want to force on us: unsound peace or unfettered confrontation. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
An Alternative View of What’s Next After the Trump-Xi Summit
Hawkish rhetoric from the national security establishment isn’t grappling with the complex challenges posed by China’s rise.
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Here is a nice counterpoint from @jwdwerner.bsky.social against such catastrophizjng of Chinese FDI in the auto sector. quincyinst.org/research/an-...
An Opening for a New US–China Economic Relationship
The United States can and should institutionalize prudent national security safeguards. But rather than doing so as an excuse to haphazardly cut China out of the American economy, it should do so in o...
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Lutnick paid off Republicans before his Epstein testimony. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony
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There are 2 big stories in development happening in Africa @katemac.bsky.social (1) LEAPFROGGING: Africa is buying huge quantities of solar panels. Electricity access is accelerating growth (2) MAKING not just BUYING: some countries got FDI. Starting to capture value-added & jobs from manufacturing
Dave Jones@cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere's 4 key countries which these cells+wafers are exported to: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. That's a LOT of manfacturing capacity that's come online in the last months. Some of the panels will be for export, but many will likely be used domestically.
I joined @tobitac.bsky.social talking to @redandinexpert.bsky.social on where US–China relations stand in the glorious new era of constructive strategic stability.
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 3mo ago🇨🇳🇺🇸 NEW EPISODE 🇨🇳🇺🇸 - @tobitac.bsky.social and @jwdwerner.bsky.social on where US-China relations stand after the Beijing summit. We talked tariffs, Taiwan, and potential future crises that might worsen relations between the two most powerful states in the global system:
fresh audio product: • May 21, 2026 Jake Werner analyzes the Trump–Xi summit and US–China relations generally • Gareth Gore talks about Opus Dei, a cult-like Catholic org involved in right-wing politics around the world (and very much in the US) www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
I have a letter in @financialtimes.com on Ely Ratner’s op-ed, where he joined other Biden alums calling for confrontation with China. Parts were cut, and I wanted to post one line in particular since the case for US–China conflict relies heavily on the idea that in this world only one can thrive:
Bonus - The China Consensus and Trump’s Xi Meeting w/ @jwdwerner.bsky.social Jake Werner returns to the show! How did we get to our current posture toward China? And what happened at the Trump-Xi summit this week? Link in the replies.
