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james crabtree
@jamescrabtree
Analyst & writer. Billionaire Raj author. @ecfr distinguished fellow. @foreignpolicy columnist. Ex: IISS, FT, LKY School, UK Govt. LSE / Harvard. Cat lover.
London, England
Joined November 2008
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    Delighted to be doing this exciting fellowship. Still based in London, but now with forays to NYC & Zurich. Still doing things with @ecfr too. Thanks esp to @halbluchs & @rorrydaniels for bringing me on. Looking forward to working with @dannyrrussel, @wendyscutler and team!
    📣 Asia Society Switzerland is delighted to announce James Crabtree @jamescrabtree as the new TOY Senior Fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute, based in New York, and Asia Society Switzerland, focusing on Asian geopolitics. 🔎More: asiasociety.org/switzerland/an… #AsiaCompetence
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    A Finnish friend says there is a typically morose joke circulating around Helsinki: "So, we now have to stay 2m away from each other? Why so close?"
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    A treat to meet @lenirobredo in Zurich yesterday. We talked over dinner about the King Maker, one of the most extraordinary political documentaries i've ever seen, set in part around her victorious 2016 vice presidential campaign. Trailer 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=wzTdND…
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    Advert spotted for music tuition in Singapore earlier this evening. You can't accuse them of sugar coating it 🎻😫
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    Matt Levine is so good he can summarise the 1MDB scandal in a perfect paragraph, when it takes most people many hours.
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    Giant statues. Really really big.
    If India announces a major infra spend package, what should be prioritized?
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    And today's prize for most ridiculous excuse-making goes to..... the government of Andhra Pradesh. Hard to fathom how much damage the decision unilaterally to scrap this new city project will have for India's reputation as a reliable international partner.
    Andhra minister blames Singapore for delays in #Amaravati. Singapore says land wasn't made available to it. Project ends in civil blame game
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    As it turns, out almost exactly the same amount he sued me for. Poor chap.
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    Wang Yi recently went to 🇮🇳 seeking better ties. But 🇨🇳's hopes that 🇮🇳might soon join 🇨🇳 & 🇷🇺 in an anti-western civilisaitonal realignment are highly unlikely. More likely: 🇮🇳 keeps links with🇷🇺 but deepens with 🇺🇸, 🇯🇵 , 🇦🇺 etc. Me for @IISS_org 👇
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    Should the west play hardball with India over Ukraine? Better to recognise Modi's security dilemmas re tighter Russia / China ties, and help New Delhi reduce its arms imports, as I argue in @NikkeiAsia. 1/
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    Protests spreading. Most severe test for Xi since taking power, and at a complex time, domestically and geopolitically CCP is stuck: having staked Xi authority on Zero Covid, it finds it impossible to take only sensible route out, namely importing MRNA vaccines. Quick 🧵 1/
    Many Chinese journos at this moment were in tears watching the video. It’s happening. Still in Liang Ma He 亮马河 area. A girl shows “Give movies back, we want cinema freedom. We want free expression. give media back, give us journalism back”. Ppl echoed. It’s going unstoppable.
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    Singaporean technocrats are pretty cold-headed in their planning. If they are shuttering a chunk of the world's best airport for the next year and a half, you get a fairly clear sense of how long they think it might be before things get remotely back to normal.
    #COVID19 UPDATE: Changi Airport to suspend Terminal 2 operations for 18 months cna.asia/3aMJe0z
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