Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Might be a sort of Journalism’s Weinstein: we all knew, looked away, and continued to elevate & honor him while shu… https://t.co/7ZDTLt91tl — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @mattyglesias: Not my place to tell other people’s stories but this seems well-deserved from what I’ve heard. https://t.co/pAzxNOP688 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @diaahadid: Fascinating stuff by @ThomasErdbrink: Iran Saps Strength of Revolutionary Guards With Arrests and Cutbacks https://t.co/2B97… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Amazingly, this effect applies in reverse to the timeless smooth tunes of Steely Dan — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

A small but significant body of scientific research suggests that your ability to appreciate music declines with age https://t.co/UpmiqW51wW — PolitiTweet.org

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Another must-read @nktpnd https://t.co/QrkjJG8RW3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aoscott: This is such good journalism. https://t.co/3cA6Qgi1DF — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@glcarlstrom Congrats — I can’t wait to read it — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NicDawes: Largely unremarked: Facebook takes casual buzzsaw to publishers in a few countries that sound small and far away. News orgs i… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@dhnexon @prchovanec I struggle to think of cases where great powers are not under perceived strategic constraint — PolitiTweet.org

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@prchovanec @dhnexon S Korea not a great case for your argument. US backed brutal military dictators for decades. M… https://t.co/Wr2grEt9Cy — PolitiTweet.org

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@prchovanec @dhnexon I’m not sure how British democracy somehow makes it no longer count that the US often went out… https://t.co/hdLJvSGT8v — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhnexon @prchovanec Which sort of suggests that democracy was often incidental to the notional exchange of US trad… https://t.co/wB9vhvEgT3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhnexon @prchovanec But we also offered economic liberalization to friendly elites if they promised to impose authoritarianism — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhnexon @prchovanec But my topline thought is that a lot of democracy's cold war-era appeal to national elites was… https://t.co/9HvD9ZhEzo — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhnexon @prchovanec It's late here and I need to get to bed so rather than dashing off a cursory response I'm goin… https://t.co/WlBzmU2ngH — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@stcolumbia yes was just talking to @amandataub on a lot of this turning on elite preferences, though we haven't go… https://t.co/CxnQgzeBXO — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mikeduncan As it happens hoping to do some work on this very question in the coming months – stay tuned! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@sstrangio @BeijingPalmer @KanchoYogo I agree with you James, though share Sebastian's view on why it's happening.… https://t.co/HZYRTXNPHg — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I had more to say but got distracted and it's very late here. If you're skeptical, just assume the remaining tweets would've persuaded you. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

China's going to play the same short-termist, more-losses-than-wins, expediency-over-ideology game as every other great power in history. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Of course that's not what happened. Both sides worked within, or imposed, whatever system was expedient. Our universalist rhetoric was empty — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

We made this mistake in the Cold War as well, assuming the US would spread democracy & the Soviets would spread communist authoritarianism. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

And for all its communist roots, there's little universalism in China's view of its own system. Sees itself as unique & nontransferable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Based on this track record, there's little reason for Beijing to conclude it would benefit from spreading authoritarianism over democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, Beijing has had a rough few years with fellow authoritarian governments. Vietnam, North Korea. Myanmar flipped on them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of China's greatest diplomatic successes have been with democracies or quasi-democracies. Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Park's South Korea. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Here's one piece of conventional wisdom I'd like to break: that as China expands, it will spread Chinese-style authoritarianism in the world — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

The only thing more fun than spending a month wandering Asia is moving up your flight home by a day — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I know jack about typhoons so please take all this as raw info only. Wait for actual experts to assess. But it sounds pretty bad out there. — PolitiTweet.org