Debating The Long Term Sino-US Relationship, Part IV
The final and most important deterministic reasoning of Mearsheimer is that nations all think like the US and act like a mirror image of this country. In the last blog
Category: Game theoretic
Debating The Long Term Sino-US Relationship, Part III
This blog discusses Mearsheimer’s deterministic reasoning on the order of priority between economic and security concerns, and how that led to the deterministic conclusion that China and the US must
Debating The Long Term Sino-US Relationship: Part II
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict reminds me to continue with the debate seen on YouTube on the long term Sino-US relationship: Whether they are enemies now and in the long run future.
How To Be An International Nice Guy
If I were Joe Biden, I would be bothered by people using my personal image as a “nice guy” to sort of blackmailing me. See the image of a bunch
Why China Has A Weak Demand For Democracy
The US is accusing China for not developing democracy after its economic growth. This is not exactly a fair accusation because the formula of economic growth pushing up democracy was
Genocide or No Genocide, There Are Many Questions Part II
The Problem With “Distrust & Verify” The importance of having efficient dialogues, not just monologues among ourselves, cannot be overstressed. I am not a big fan of the so called
Why the “Trump Coup” Failed
This interesting essay by a Yale history professor, Timothy Snyder, provided useful comparison of Trump’s attempted but failed coup and Hitler’s succeeded power grab. This got me thinking about a
Pareto Efficiency & Jill Biden Doctorate Degree of Education
There has been a dispute of medium scale of late about President-elect Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, or more specifically, about her doctorate degree in education (“Ed. D.” for short)
The Economics of Globalization Backlash
Just finished my draft on the globalization backlash and the followings are the highlights: The trade models (the Ricardian and Smithian) can help us understand both globalization and backlash; The
Sustainable Democracy & Compromises Spread Over Time
I can hardly stop laughing when I was reading this nice piece of legal explanation of the SCOTUS decision tossing out the Texas case for Trump, especially the metaphor in