Joseph Wong

Reposting for Canada Day! Investing in a Canadian elbows-up strategy. My June op-ed in @thestar.com, on Canada's middle power moment on the global stage.
www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Congrats to all @uoft.bsky.social grads! It never rains on convocation day! #uoftgrad25

Rise of the middle powers. Here’s how Canada can wean itself off of U.S. dependence As Prime Minister Mark Carney hosts U.S. President Donald Trump and the rest of the G7 next week, leaders of middle powers like Canada can become less dependent on America

This is Canada's moment. My Toronto Star op-ed on what Canada needs to do to assert our global leadership amidst huge changes to the international order.
www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Trump's tariffs are hammering the industry he wants to save If the tariffs fail to bring a manufacturing revival, it would weaken the prospects of a GOP coalition that increasingly relies on working-class voters.

Strategy to bring back manufacturing to #America: by levying tariffs on #steel and aluminum, key manufacturing inputs, making them more expensive for American manufacturers. Makes total (non)sense. #MAGA
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Let me get this straight. Trump wants to reassert American dominance by turning away the best, most talented ppl in the world, because #Trump believes those in the #MAGA base who voted for him are the only ones who can make #America great again?

This piece in the NY Times correctly hones in on why international students are vital to US interests

Kicking them out will destroy the research & development pipeline that has propelled the US into global leadership in science & tech

Just came back from visiting Oliver, who's doing an internship in Accra, Ghana. I was his age when I went to Asia by myself. Changed my life: thought I was going to be a lawyer, then decided to devote my life to studying that part of the world. #impact #growingup

RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria

Trump's health secretary, the guy who claims a worm burrowed into his brain, ate part of it and then died there. Explains alot. #rfk
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

Call out anti-Asian racism – including microaggressions, Joseph Wong writes in the Globe and Mail Amid increasing reports of anti-Asian harassment and discrimination in Canada and around the world, Joseph Wong, the University of Toronto's interim vice-president, international, denounces the rising...

Four years ago I wrote a globeandmail op-ed on micro-aggressions and racism. Re-sharing it for #asianheritagemonth #AAPIHeritageMonth
www.utoronto.ca/news/call-ou...

My 83 yr old mom lookin' like she's running for the Liberal Party of Canada!

Guns n Roses over cocktails. @uoft.bsky.social

Don't poke the polar bear. #CanadaStrong

A meeting of minds (coauthors and friends), Dan Ziblatt, Dan Slater, and Rachel Riedl, in Boston, conspiring to strengthen global democracy.

I assign #PopeFrancis encyclical in my class b/c in it he makes the simple yet powerful point: unfair inequality and environmental degradation are morally wrong and we need to do something about it. Flawed as popes are, he was a rare one #RIPPopeFrancis

30 years ago we met as first-year PhD students @UWMadison. Spending this past weekend together at my cottage, reminiscing and realizing how our profs back then, who seemed so old, were younger than we are today! Grateful for these guys! #gradschool #phdlife

The notion that Trump defying the courts poses a constitutional crisis is misleading. The fact we have to contemplate that at all is the crisis. His defiance would be the death knell of democracy. #SCOTUS

China has been preparing for U.S. tariffs 'for years,' says expert | Hanomansing Tonight China has raised tariffs on U.S. imports to 125 per cent. Victor Shih, the director of 21st Century China Center, joins Hanomansing Tonight to break down how the trade war between U.S. and China conti...

I talked on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the economic and political implications of the trade war which the U.S. started www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

It's so weird to find myself quietly cheering on #Harvard and #China these days.

The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.

China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.

Political economy 101 -- non-tariff barrier: when a country in the midst of a trade war decides it's just not going to sell you things you need anymore. #TrumpTariffs #TradeWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

China will suffer, to be sure, because it will lose sales and export revenue. The US, however, likely to suffer more because it can't make the things that China makes and #America needs. #TariffWar #China

Tariffs 101: America imports alot, thus huge trade deficits. It's not getting ripped off, just doesn't really make anything Americans want/need. #TrumpTariffs make imports (i.e. everything) cost more, so that Americans will make stuff for themselves. Make sense? Didn't think so.

I find the two 4-letter words that explain much of what's going on with and in the Trump administration are "dumb" and "evil."

"You want to live in TAIWAN?!?" exclaims Parker Posey's character on #WhiteLotus3 ep 5, confusing #Thailand with #Taiwan yet again. Sigh.

Taking Jackie Robinson down from DoD site, then restoring him, but not because of his contributions to combating #racism is like saying ... #JackieRobinson did not break the racial color line in baseball, transforming pro sports & #America forever.

And likely from their EDI policies.

Anything that is not racist is now considered DEI.

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Got my burners for China. Got my burners for Russia. Got my burners for Turkey and Hungary. Getting my burners for...the US.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Amazing cover.

A defense.gov article about Jackie Robinson leads toa 404- Page not Found page and the url includes "DEI" in it.

The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.