Tobita Chow

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

If you’re not morgenthaupilled you’re not paying attention

Trump is maintaining a superficial calm with China but fundamental tensions are continuing to grow under the surface, as is a sense of desperation among US natsec elites "Unless there is a real break within the Democratic Party... we can expect conflict to take off" @jwdwerner.bsky.social

The US view on weaponized interdependence.

Kyle Chan on China and “AGI”: Chinese firms talk about it but in significantly different terms and it is not a focus of Beijing’s AI strategy www.highcapacity.org/p/does-china...

Interesting time to be a Chinese Canadian American

Very excited to be delivering the 2026 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture next week, “Imperial State Capitalism and the Long Arc of History”!

on the surface military tensions are lower than a long time, no US carriers in the pacific, THAAD out of SK + pullback on joint exercises, RFA defunded, Taiwan arms sale frozen--beneath the surface, however...

I’m delighted to have contributed a chapter with Sandy Shan in this landmark book on the future of progressive foreign policy. In our chapter, Sandy and I lay out our vision for how the US–China relationship could be reshaped, making great power peace an engine for progressive global reform.

Maybe forcing other countries into an economic bloc against China is a bad and unworkable idea

Reported ICE sightings also in Rogers Park, Humboldt Park, Stone Park and Logan Square.

Don't get too excited--I won't name names but some of the left congressional candidates this year reject the labor theory of value

On @ezraklein.bsky.social, @mattduss.bsky.social plants the flag: • Progressive FP’s precondition is to break with Biden personnel and their aim of reviving US hegemony • Its substance is solidarity: reform so different nationalities are not pitted against each other, so all workers enjoy security

GLOBAL MINIMUM WAGE MENTIONED

"The US now appears to control all the major power blocs in Venezuela.... Venezuela’s new acting President has become the local enforcer of the US National Security Strategy and the Trump Corollary." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bol...

I'm thrilled to be writing GREEN GIANT for PublicAffairs.

“Realizing a progressive hukou abolition would require immense political force to overcome resistance from privileged urbanites and capitalists addicted to super-exploited labor. That force cannot come from society, as social movements, and labor movements in particular, are anathema to the Party.”

earnest answer: a full 15 years of treating the use of DJI/consumer drones as an intelligence threat while trying to spin up $$$$ secure supply chain alternatives for cheap quadcopters meant the US fully missed how low low cost and mass production allows for innovation and iteration at scale

I'm no military expert but it seems that both the US and Israel have recently been caught by surprise by drone warfare and how is that possible

Tim Barker is correct, for better and for worse phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...

Haven't read yet and I can't speak to the other topics but Ching Kwan Lee and Zhang Yueran are GOAT scholars in their respective fields

It can be easy to forget how significant Jubilee 2000-inspired debt relief was. Bono, Muhammad Ali, and Pope John Paul teaming up! Over $100 billion in debt forgiven for 39 countries to enable anti-poverty spending! My new blog is on HIPC/MDRI and what we can learn from them