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Rorry Daniels
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Managing Director @AsiaPolicy and Asia security specialist. Opinions my own. She/her. Crossposting @ rorrydaniels.bsky.social
Princeton, NJ
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Jan 9, 2025
    🚨NEW: As Trump begins a second term, the policy landscape is marked by heightened U.S.-China competition, shifting alliances, and new alignments. Explore expert recommendations in @asiapolicy’s new briefing: ASPI Notes for the Trump Administration: asiasociety.org/aspi-notes-tru… 🧵⬇️
    ASPI Notes for the Trump Administration
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Nov 6, 2024
    What does Trump 2.0 mean for Asia? Some thoughts: 1. The biggest whiplash will be on the role and value of U.S. alliances. Moving from central to U.S. strategy to questioned as a value at all will accelerate trends in cooperation. 1/
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Mar 1, 2023
    An existential struggle—by definition—means that one side must disappear for the other side to survive. This committee is not just “sketching the threat” to U.S interests, they are using American tax dollars to build the case for war with China.
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    Jonathan Cheng
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    Mar 1, 2023
    A new U.S. House committee on China held its first hearing, sketching out the threat it says Beijing poses to U.S. interests and calling for a concerted response. "This is not a polite tennis match. This is an existential struggle.” @charleshutzler on.wsj.com/3xWTfFL
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Mar 10, 2022
    It also begs an alternate analysis to the ‘China got played’ argument: it’s possible that an autocracy’s poor information environment compounds exponentially when coordinating with other autocracies.
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    Bryce C. Barros 白若詩
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    Mar 10, 2022
    This is a very telling data point, confirms confusion amongst 🇨🇳PRC leadership on the broader implications of the 🇷🇺Russian invasion of 🇺🇦Ukraine and expectations of the war.
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Dec 12, 2024
    Will Xi Jinping attend Donald Trump's inauguration? I doubt it, but interesting opening move. My thoughts: 1) Xi and Trump do need to meet early to set the tone of the bilateral relationship over the next 4 years. No other channel will be authoritative enough for either side 1/6
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Feb 3, 2023
    The postponement of Blinken's trip to China over the balloon incident is disappointing but not surprising in the current state of US-China relations and domestic politics 🧵👇
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Jun 22, 2022
    I’m delighted to start today as Managing Director of @AsiaPolicy, a terrific global team with a track record of high quality work and a lot of exciting projects on the horizon.
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Sep 15, 2021
    Seeing tweets expressing surprise that Gen. Milley felt it necessary to reassure the Chinese last fall—but anyone who talked to the Chinese about security issues at that time could corroborate these concerns. 1/5
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    Rorry Daniels
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    May 23, 2024
    The PLA has started large military drills in and around the Taiwan Strait—what’s happening? A thread 1/
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Mar 10, 2022
    Replying to @rorrydaniels
    If no one would tell Putin he is miscalculating, and no one would tell Xi that Putin is miscalculating, then no surprise that China miscalculated. In other words, rather than China getting played by Russia, both leaders were played by their own sycophantic systems…
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Feb 14, 2020
    Seems like we're careening toward a choice between an unknown risk (the global spread/fatality rate of COVID-19) and a known risk (the economic effects of pandemic responses like quarantines). Who gets to decide what to prioritize?
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Nov 16, 2023
    Re Xi-Biden meeting, I think both sides got what they wanted…for now. Mtg very focused on benefits of coordination/cooperation rather than areas of competition/conflict. Short 🧵👇
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Feb 3, 2023
    Replying to @rorrydaniels
    But we should all be concerned that an essential tool of crisis management-diplomacy-is held hostage to the political mood in DC and hamstrung by predictable types of events. This is not a sustainable way to responsibly manage the most important relationship in the world. END
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    Rorry Daniels
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    Nov 6, 2024
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    Meanwhile, pressure is likely off India for its support of Putin and off North Korea for supporting the war in Ukraine. Trump is going to put some new creases and wrinkles in this multipolar world. 5/
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