The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

The coming global food crisis ft.trib.al/hZg0yxi

You think David is defending hypothetical ethnic cleansing of non-Turkic people in a hypothetical Turkic state? This is very silly

But why do you think it would be wrong to defend separatism?

I don’t see any defense of separatism here and I am not sure if David even has a position on that

David Brophy responds tempestmag.org/2026/04/dism...

i think vance’s great asset is that the press likes him and sees him as one of their own

My twitter timeline is full of people declaring that it's game over for Taiwan

Mercifully few takes on the Cheng-Xi meeting on here

Sen Slotkin (D-CIA), who trashed Bernie’s Fighting Oligarchy tour not even a year ago, is pivoting to left populist messaging

We're now open for pitches for issue #4 of the
@the-breakdown.bsky.social: the China issue! If you have ideas for essays or pieces on any aspect of China's relationship with the climate crisis, at home or globally, then let us know.

Full details here: break-down.org/pitching/

Antidote to stupid takes

David Brophy found some apparently fake citations including the concluding one to a Wang Hui paper that doesn't seem to exist

Monthly review: the idea of the "Uyghur genocide" and the realities of Xinjiang, by Vijay Prashad & Tings Chak

here's another one. spent lots of space proving "there's no mass killing", a big strawman, and the rest talking about economic development. Of course, reeducation camps became "vocational centres" and forced labour transfer became development policies. Of course, no mention of the hundreds of

Farnoush Amiri @FarnoushAmiri 🚨Scoop: An official from one of the mediating countries tells me that the 11th hour deal between US and Iran came together after the involvement of two unlikely actors: Vice President J.D. Vance and China 👀 Vance was looped in late Tuesday and China helped get Iran on board

Fascinating ingredients in this TACO, can't wait to learn more

Any sign that Dems might be open to taking war crimes seriously this time?

Between Chinamaxxing and the Kill Line A viral Chinese meme imagines Americans one mishap away from ruin, while American influencers fantasize about China as a frictionless techno-utopia. Each reveals less about reality than about shared economic anxieties.

A viral Chinese meme imagines Americans one mishap away from ruin, while American influencers fantasize about China as a frictionless techno-utopia.

Each reveals less about reality than about shared economic anxieties.

DC desperately wants third countries’ support against China, but it always fails because it doesn’t actually care about them.

The US could “compete”, but ironically only if people for whom geopolitical conflict is irrelevant or unwanted were in charge.
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Trump Budget to Frame Midterms With Defense Boost, Domestic Cuts President Donald Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will frame his party’s midterm election message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cut...

Progressive internationalism usually doesn't directly address the issues that are most salient to the majority of people but Trump is doing his very best to solve this problem www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

feeling like we're in some of those weeks where decades are happening

Chinese government bonds emerge as lone war haven Yields on China’s debt are down marginally since the start of the conflict while those of other major economies have risen

Chinese government bonds emerge as lone war haven ft.trib.al/elDzXLR

"The Axios Show": Jamie Dimon defends Iran war as overdue "They've been killing people around the world for 45-plus years."

lol

www.axios.com/2026/04/01/j...

Exciting new adventures in FAFO?

As dumb as Trump’s execution has been, let’s not forget that a big chunk of the foreign policy elite spent the last decade baying for war with Iran.

They got to be Very Serious People all those years even as they were calling for something that would likely cause Hormuz closure and economic chaos

Pentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, Washington Post reports The Pentagon ​is preparing ‌for weeks of ground ​operations ​in Iran, the ⁠Washington ​Post reported ​Saturday, citing U.S. officials.

Pentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, Washington Post reports reut.rs/4bEv17L

The centrist attack on Hasan Piker might create some temporary headaches for progressives but I would bet it will just end up backfiring. Have they thought this through?

I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”

‘Axis of cope’: What happens when they learn all the wrong lessons? Now that things haven't gone quite as planned, watch Washington hawks dial it up more, this time against China

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‘Fickle Friend’: Ex-Envoy Sees China Flopping on Silence in War China damaged its claim of becoming a major global player by failing to offer effective diplomatic support for Iran and staying silent when the US intervened in Venezuela, according to veteran America...

This narrative has been thoroughly debunked and people like Burns should know better by now but they just can’t give it up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Building Whole-Process People's Democracy in China For Building the Future, a research collection on contemporary socialist construction, Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel look at the concept of “whole-process people’s democracy” in China, a complex syste...

Progressive International is promoting this article on twitter again and I cannot overstate how terrible it is

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UAE pushes for international force to reopen Hormuz Abu Dhabi is hardening its stance as it suffers from Iran’s retaliation to US-Israeli war

UAE pushes for international force to reopen Hormuz ft.trib.al/fVr8lbL