Robert Manning

Beyond the Space Race: Collaboration and Competition in the Future of AI Governance The AI race mirrors Cold War rivalries but lacks a clear finish line. Fragmented governance and zero-sum narratives risk overshadowing inclusive, collaborative approaches to innovation.

Neared Celk!
How will AI be distributed?

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Who needs intelligence agencies when you have the very stable genius?

I’d settle for plain, English, Harry Truman-like.
People looking for authenticity.

AI: The Road to Utopia or Dystopia? The development of artificial intelligence cannot be stopped. Yet, that doesn't mean it cannot be realigned with human-centered priorities.

The promise & perils of the Techno-utopians.
Are the modern version of the 17th century British East India Company, creating a tech empire ahead of the state?

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Pretty much. But gradually moving from Orwell — ban books, etc to Huxley— no need to ban, as nobody wants to read books, just live in the Netaverse.

The End of American Internationalism? Donald Trump’s successor, whomever it may be, will find it difficult to restore US global leadership in 2029.

New Red Cell

Why repairing the damage of Trump destruction of US state capacity, US global standing and retreat from multilateralism will be extremely difficult.
Can't put Humpty Dumpty back together.

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Present at the Destruction: A 2030 Damage Assessment What hath Trump wrought? The revolution unleashed on January 20 has unsettled eighty years of economic, political, and security order in a few months.

NEW RED CELL

Trump: Costs & Consequences
How the world may be reordered.

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Exactly.

Trump Is Losing Asia An incoherent policy is speeding Beijing’s rise.

Trump is undoing 45 years of carefully structured understandings and cooperation that resulted in stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific.

An incoherent policy is speeding Beijing’s rise. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/21/t...

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Prescient.

👇sadly, a reality check.

Ending government waste, fraud and abuse, eh?

Why there will be few negotiated resolutions. Trump goals are 1) tariffs as extortion: free money to US Treasury, reasons don't matter-- any one will do.
and 2) decouple from China. Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia got "China+1" FDI, to assemble China stuff exported to US. Electronics, shoes, clothes.

Impactful, big story buried under tariff headlines: ROK Poresident impeached. June elections, according to polls, likely to result in a DP, leftist government (already controls Parliament). I'm guessing tensions with Trump ahead.

Exactly

How is this acceptable?

This is exactly what it looks like. what rationale besides race?

Cui Bono? Seems a form of Oligarchs waging class warfare by nihilism.

This is not just a gift to Putin, but also morally repugnant and indefensible.

Bingo

As long as Trump is in the realm of capricious madness, why not Canada invite California, Oregon and, Washington to secede from the US and become new Canadian provinnces.

This is how deep the decay is, not just the book burners. but 31% of 8th graders can read at grade level.
Gearing up to succeed in a world of technology revolution.

Sometimes it seems as if the US has begun a long march back to the 14th century.

Some troubling revolutionary similarities -- fostering anti- elites populist chaos to undo the administrative state, bureaucracy. But not (yet) the savage, murderous self-rigtheous violence.
But no Zhou Enlai -- and at the end of the day, not sure who our Dng Xiaopeng (or if there is one).

One must ask, is there an explanation other than simple nihilism, a sense that there is no social contract, no idea of public good, that government is no different that a business -- if it impedes profit....?

Present at the destruction.

Follow the miney

That's how it happens. Germany 1933.

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