Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Getting increasingly intense emergency alerts now every few minutes. Given we’re inland Kyoto, worried about coasta… https://t.co/nwmP6Oe8i8 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

What does “on this” mean? Because it’s not economic pressure, you need other countries for that. Planning something… https://t.co/PiOBiB0cFp — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Hey Japan folks — this reads to us like a warning for people in flood- or landslide-prone areas to consider evacuat… https://t.co/EukIoIucQC — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

At this point it’s mostly just a local weather story, but worth keeping an eye on what happens in Tokyo overnight — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I’m in Kyoto on vacation and things here are fine, it’s hardly an emergency situation, but I gather in Tokyo & environs it’s more serious. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I totally get why it’s not getting coverage, but just FYI there’s a “super typhoon” hitting Japan that’s already prompted 70,000 evacuations — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @motokorich: As polls close, NHK is projecting that Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democrats and its allies get 2/3 of the Lower house needed 2 re… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Small brain: go on vacation in Japan Medium brain: during typhoon season Galaxy brain: https://t.co/NxteSI5730 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @maggieNYT: Chain reaction events that potus creates and then responds to https://t.co/De3L302IRG — PolitiTweet.org