Gregory Kulacki

YouTube video by Excess Returns The Real Estate Bust Was the Plan | Louis-Vincent Gave on China's Brute Force Growth Strategy

Ignore the title and tag line. This is a very interesting take on what US observers get wrong about what is happening in the Chinese economy.

YouTube video by Inside China Business That didn't take long: Trump's trade deals already blowing up industries and governments in Asia

My understanding is that the US doesn't have the technology to refine and process rare earths, and won't, anytime soon. Any information to the contrary would be greatly appreciated.

YouTube video by The Sharpline Every Nation Is in Debt… So Who’s the Lender | Yanis Varoufakis

A very cogent explanation of the current operation of global finance which implies, to me, that the US, Chin and Japan, in particular, need cooperative relationships with each. This era of great power competition has to come to an end, and the sooner the better, for everyone.

Hope all of my friends and colleagues in Japan, especially in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tokyo, will take the opportunity to see this very powerful and important film.

Joint Statement on 2025 East Asia Quadrilateral Dialogue Three host institutions, including UCS, gathered with colleagues from China at the East Asia Quadrilateral Dialogue in Tokyo to advance a new era of inclusive public diplomacy in East Asia.

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One unavoidable and less romantic aspect of organizing an International dialogue of great consequence.

Will Politics Put More People’s Health at Risk from Radiation Exposure? The Trump administration's attack on the science underlying regulations that protect the public from the health risks of radiation exposure could affect many government rules.

My brilliant @ucs.org colleague Chanese Forté interviews two other brilliant folks, Dr. Jan Beyea, and @nucsafetyucs.bsky.social, on the Trump administration's moves to undermine sensible, science-based limits on radiation exposure. Team Trump seems to wants to promote nuclear power at any cost.

Will Politics Put More People’s Health at Risk from Radiation Exposure? The Trump administration's attack on the science underlying regulations that protect the public from the health risks of radiation exposure could affect many government rules.

"These executive orders are trying to change the agreed-upon scientific model (LNT) and approach to decisionmaking (ALARA)...Over time, doses would increase across society, including in medical facilities."

"At this point, China alone already has 50 percent more production capacity for PV panels than is thought to be necessary to hit an “optimized” Net Zero trajectory for CO2 emissions."

The day after Trump suggested the US would resume explosive nuclear testing "immediately," the US was the only nation to vote against a UN statement affirming the importance of the treaty that prevents it.

China Has the Most to Gain from New Nuclear Tests President Trump announced the United States will resume nuclear testing, but if China follows suit, he may regret this decision.

In this piece, my colleague @gkucs.bsky.social discusses the implications and potential Chinese response to Trump's recent suggestion that the US will resume nuclear testing. China has much more to gain from testing than the US and its not clear POTUS knows this. @ucs.org #Nukesky

China Has the Most to Gain from New Nuclear Tests President Trump announced the United States will resume nuclear testing, but if China follows suit, he may regret this decision.

"Sometime in the next few days Xi will receive a briefing from his nuclear weapons laboratories that will almost certainly contain an assessment of what China stands to gain if the existing taboo on explosive nuclear testing is broken by the United States."

The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger

"By withholding soybean purchases and rare-earth exports, China extracted relief from U.S. tariffs and delayed export controls, without conceding much in return."

The president has ordered the “Department of War” to immediately resume nuclear testing. Here’s a thread on what you need to know (1/n)

How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power (Gift Article) The United States was once the undisputed leader in atomic energy. Now it is trying to catch up.

"The Chinese are also pursuing technologies that use less uranium, such as thorium reactors, or recycle spent nuclear fuel. It’s a recognition that China doesn’t have enough domestic uranium for a massive build-out of traditional reactors."

A House of Dynamite Gets It Right—But Here’s the Full Picture The Pentagon is wrong to attack the movie for being inaccurate. We cannot rely on missile defense systems to protect us from nuclear destruction.

"The GMD test program is like T-ball practice when the real world is major league baseball. It’s irresponsible to say the GMD system provides effective protection when it has not been demonstrated to work in conditions expected in a real conflict…"

🎬🍿Are you planning to watch Kathryn Bigelow's new film, A House of Dynamite, this weekend?

Download our free bingo cards to learn more and play along while you watch: act.ucsusa.org/48MjQsO

Don't Get the Wrong Takeaway from 'A House of Dynamite' Director Kathryn Bigelow's new nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite' hinges on the failure of the US anti-missile system.

Our @ucs.org Scoville fellow Sean Manning has this important piece on #HouseofDynamite, laying out exactly how throwing billions or trillions of $$$ at missile defense is not how we solve the nuclear threat. We need solutions that reduce that threat instead. inkstickmedia.com/dont-get-the...

Washington's neglect of South Korea’s security concerns is a proliferation problem To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner.

"The problem may not be just that Washington may be failing to assure its Korean ally, but that it no longer considers such assurance—and the nonproliferation it is meant to underwrite—necessary."

The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…

"For over a century, Chinese intellectuals grappled with this challenge: how to achieve modernity without losing cultural identity, how to become powerful without abandoning what made China distinctive.

That historical chapter may now be closing. China appears to have found that path”

A House of Dynamite Explodes the Missile Defense Myth It is no wonder the interceptors fail in the film. This is an accurate portrayal of what is likely to happen in a crisis.

Probably the most important thing you need to know about the risk you’ll be killed if someone launches a nuclear-armed missile in your direction.

Five Things to Know Before Watching A House of Dynamite The new film A House of Dynamite depicts what happens when a nuclear missile is launched at the United States. The real-world possibility is just as scary.

"Humanity cannot coexist with nuclear weapons forever."

- critical takeaway from my @ucs.org colleague Jenn Knox's must-read piece "Five Things to Know Before Watching A House of Dynamite," the @netflix.com movie premiering in theater's tomorrow:
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Seeking a New Moral Compass on Nuclear Weapons Aboard the Golden Rule A sailboat that symbolized anti-nuclear activism in the late 1950s has been restored as a reminder of the need for arms control.

"Amidst the rich sea life around us, it was hard to imagine some of the largest nuclear weapons in history vaporizing distant parts of this same ocean... What feels abstract today were immediate realities for Bigelow and his crew…"

I'm not that far behind you. We do our best here at UCS, but it is very much an uphill battle. There are so many difficulties facing young people they don't have the time or inclination to be as connected to this threat as we were when we were young.

How to Make the Next Trump-Kim Meeting a Success Kim Jong Un could be willing to agree to a nuclear weapons-free zone in Northeast Asia because it would threat North Korea the same as China, Russia, and the United States.

"We live in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape where the established rules and norms of the post–Cold War era are dissolving quicker than we can devise new ones to take their place. It’s a transition fraught with dangers but also ripe with new possibilities."

‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

"They believe large language models, powered by neural networks, may be five to 10 years away from “takeoff”. Zhu insists that these ideas are built on sand."

Opinion | The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News

"The Ellisons have also made no secret of their intention to move CBS News to the right. They are negotiating to acquire The Free Press, a heterodox publication co-founded by Bari Weiss that prioritizes criticism of “woke” culture, and put Ms. Weiss in a senior position at CBS News."