Bryce C. Barros 白若詩
@barrosbryce.bsky.social
🇨🇳, IndoPac & LA
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Since 2024, the EU has intensified military and security cooperation with the Philippines. In a new piece, @barrosbryce.bsky.social examines Manila’s emergence as a key European partner in the Indo-Pacific.
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Europe’s Deepening Security Ties with the Philippines
Since 2024, European countries and the EU have intensified military and security cooperation with the Philippines. Manila is emerging as a key partner in the Indo-Pacific.
ip-quarterly.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Since 2024, the EU has intensified military and security cooperation with the Philippines. In a new piece, @barrosbryce.bsky.social examines Manila’s emergence as a key European partner in the Indo-Pacific.
ip-quarterly.com/en/europes-d...
ip-quarterly.com/en/europes-d...
I'm thrilled to write another piece for
@ipq.bsky.social on deepening security cooperation between the Philippines and Europeans.
Enjoy!
@ipq.bsky.social on deepening security cooperation between the Philippines and Europeans.
Enjoy!
Since 2024, the EU has intensified military and security cooperation with the Philippines. In a new piece, @barrosbryce.bsky.social examines Manila’s emergence as a key European partner in the Indo-Pacific.
ip-quarterly.com/en/europes-d...
ip-quarterly.com/en/europes-d...
Europe’s Deepening Security Ties with the Philippines
Since 2024, European countries and the EU have intensified military and security cooperation with the Philippines. Manila is emerging as a key partner in the Indo-Pacific.
ip-quarterly.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I'm thrilled to write another piece for
@ipq.bsky.social on deepening security cooperation between the Philippines and Europeans.
Enjoy!
@ipq.bsky.social on deepening security cooperation between the Philippines and Europeans.
Enjoy!
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Apart from … ALL THE THINGS shaking up assumptions about geopolitics right now, this is amazing and would otherwise be headline news:
apnews.com/article/japa...
apnews.com/article/japa...
Japan says it wants to join a NATO command for the support of Ukraine
Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says Japan wants to participate in a NATO command for its Ukrainian mission as Japan increasingly steps up military ties with the largely European security organ...
apnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Apart from … ALL THE THINGS shaking up assumptions about geopolitics right now, this is amazing and would otherwise be headline news:
apnews.com/article/japa...
apnews.com/article/japa...
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🇹🇼 TAIPEI, April 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Sunday offered zero tariffs as the basis for talks with the U.S., pledging to remove trade barriers rather than imposing reciprocal measures and saying Taiwanese companies will raise their U.S. investments.
April 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
🇹🇼 TAIPEI, April 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Sunday offered zero tariffs as the basis for talks with the U.S., pledging to remove trade barriers rather than imposing reciprocal measures and saying Taiwanese companies will raise their U.S. investments.
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Gonna go in and ask them for advice now that they have a much saner trade policy than us
April 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Gonna go in and ask them for advice now that they have a much saner trade policy than us
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“It’s not chaotic” he says the day Trump announced tariffs on hundreds of billions in Canadian goods and then cancelled them within hours
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining man
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining man
"It is not chaotic, and the only one who thinks it's chaotic is someone who's being silly," said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, on the rollout of the trade policy, to CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/lutnick...
Lutnick says Trump's policies are "worth it" even if they lead to recession
The president's tariff announcements have rocked the stock markets and fueled concerns of an economic downturn.
www.cbsnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“It’s not chaotic” he says the day Trump announced tariffs on hundreds of billions in Canadian goods and then cancelled them within hours
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining man
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining man
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"Meta built a censorship system specially designed for China to review including the ability to automatically detect restricted terms and popular content on Facebook, according to the complaint. The company agreed to hire at least 300 content moderators to support the system, the documents show."
Zuckerberg’s Meta considered sharing user data with China, whistleblower alleges
Meta went to extreme lengths, including developing a censorship system, in a failed attempt to bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a whistleblower complaint.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"Meta built a censorship system specially designed for China to review including the ability to automatically detect restricted terms and popular content on Facebook, according to the complaint. The company agreed to hire at least 300 content moderators to support the system, the documents show."
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Some shipping companies are discreetly moving operations out of Hong Kong and taking vessels off its flag registry. Behind these low-profile moves lie concerns that their ships could be commandeered by Chinese authorities or hit with US sanctions reut.rs/4h9f8pu
Shipping firms pull back from Hong Kong to skirt US-China risks
Some shipping companies are discreetly moving operations out of Hong Kong and taking vessels off its flag registry. Others are making contingency plans to do so.
reut.rs
March 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Some shipping companies are discreetly moving operations out of Hong Kong and taking vessels off its flag registry. Behind these low-profile moves lie concerns that their ships could be commandeered by Chinese authorities or hit with US sanctions reut.rs/4h9f8pu
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As discussed by @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social in his forthcoming book on Russian intelligence activities vis-a-vis Japan, "Cracking the Crab."
found on wikipedia: the capture of russian explorers by samurai of the tokugawa shogunate in 1811
March 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
As discussed by @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social in his forthcoming book on Russian intelligence activities vis-a-vis Japan, "Cracking the Crab."
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I know Japanese officials were hoping that Rubio's presence would be reassuring. So much for that.
Rubio has been cut out of foreign policy decisions and is not happy, sources say.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
Trump, Ukraine, and the Meme-ing of Marco Rubio
Why the Secretary of State’s stone-like posture during the Zelenskyy meltdown might have been exactly as telling as observed.
www.vanityfair.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I know Japanese officials were hoping that Rubio's presence would be reassuring. So much for that.
Not a good move, especially for USEMB Beijing.
The Trump administration effectively shut down a global air quality monitoring program and U.S. embassies will no longer publish data on local pollution levels. In many places, it was the only reliable source of such information.
U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad
Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Not a good move, especially for USEMB Beijing.
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Tariff accelerationist bros... our day has finally come
Trump's universal tariffs on Canada, Mexico, & China hit ~$1.35T of US imports starting tomorrow, ~42% of all goods brought into the US, including devastating impacts on energy, vehicle, & food supply chains. Prices for gas & groceries like tomatoes, beer, & cabbages would jump🧵
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Tariff accelerationist bros... our day has finally come
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The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/
March 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/
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Markets no longer think Donald Trump is full of bluster and are moving quickly to anticipate a slowdown in US and global growth as he raises a wall of tariffs around the world's biggest economy and trading partners start to respond in kind reut.rs/4bsB3Xa
Investors say it's time to take Trump seriously as markets recoil
Markets no longer think Donald Trump is full of bluster and are moving quickly to anticipate a slowdown in U.S. and global growth as he raises a wall of tariffs around the world's biggest economy and trading partners start to respond in kind.
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March 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Markets no longer think Donald Trump is full of bluster and are moving quickly to anticipate a slowdown in US and global growth as he raises a wall of tariffs around the world's biggest economy and trading partners start to respond in kind reut.rs/4bsB3Xa
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I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.
This is incredible. Knock yourself out, Russian intel services. “A person familiar with the matter …said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.” Cc @ciaranm.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.
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Here's my pitch—how about, to support our Great Patriot Farmers, the government just buys US wheat, soy, etc directly. Now, we have to do something with all that food but we can't just sell it, so maybe we create an agency to distribute it to starving people around the world...
China has announced its tariff retaliation—15% tariffs on US chicken, wheat, corn & cotton, plus a 10% tariff on sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef, aquatic products, fruits, vegetables, & dairy products. China also added several US firms to unreliable entity/export control lists.
March 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Here's my pitch—how about, to support our Great Patriot Farmers, the government just buys US wheat, soy, etc directly. Now, we have to do something with all that food but we can't just sell it, so maybe we create an agency to distribute it to starving people around the world...
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Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.
March 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.
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Some context for the un-emBloomberged masses of Bluesky: today's GDPNow estimate is literally the worst number excepting COVID that has happened since the indicator existed
March 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Some context for the un-emBloomberged masses of Bluesky: today's GDPNow estimate is literally the worst number excepting COVID that has happened since the indicator existed
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if he was trying to cause as much damage as humanly possible, what would he be doing differently?
⚠️ Musk now advocating for the US to leave NATO and the UN.
March 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
if he was trying to cause as much damage as humanly possible, what would he be doing differently?
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Rubio also said Russia could become a “permanent junior partner” to China in the same interview which is a reverse psychology move so obvious you kind of have to discount the rest of the stuff he said
That worked before because Moscow and Beijing had been at odds for more than a decade, had battled at the border, nuclear war between the two was quite possible, and because Beijing needed rescuing from domestic disaster.
None of those conditions exist today.
None of those conditions exist today.
March 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Rubio also said Russia could become a “permanent junior partner” to China in the same interview which is a reverse psychology move so obvious you kind of have to discount the rest of the stuff he said
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One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.
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I actually give trump pal and Fox host Jesse Watters a lot of credit here in the sense he honestly spelled out why it’s so dumb when Certain People, including “post-left” online guys, try to spin Trump’s mission here as anti-imperialist.
Watters: We run the world. This is America's world. He's our proxy. This ends when we say it ends. It doesn’t end when Zelenskyy—
March 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I actually give trump pal and Fox host Jesse Watters a lot of credit here in the sense he honestly spelled out why it’s so dumb when Certain People, including “post-left” online guys, try to spin Trump’s mission here as anti-imperialist.
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I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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I was genuinely not expecting a “You should smile more!” take from the disastrous Trump-Zelenskyy meeting
March 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I was genuinely not expecting a “You should smile more!” take from the disastrous Trump-Zelenskyy meeting
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Texas A&M is claiming it needs to ban drag shows from campus because they create a hostile environment for women on campus, and involve the mockery or objectification of women. It's one of the most laughable arguments I can imagine.
Texas A&M University System bans student drag shows because they might offend someone. Utter disregard for basic First Amendment rights.
![[...] WHEREAS, the Board recognizes and supports the efforts of the Universities’ student, staff and faculty organizations, to foster a sense of community and belonging for the many students, staff and faculty of the Universities from varied backgrounds; and
WHEREAS, the Board is aware that each of the Universities operate and maintain meeting rooms, theaters, auditoriums, and other venues available to student, staff and faculty organizations in which the organizations periodically host events that are open to members of the public (Special Event Venues); and
WHEREAS, the Board recognizes a special interest in maintaining the Universities’ Special Event Venues as limited forums for the purpose of promoting the mission of the System to provide education, conduct research, commercialize technology, offer training and deliver services for the people of Texas and beyond; and
WHEREAS, the Board finds that it is inconsistent with the System’s mission and core values of its Universities, including the value of respect for others, to allow Special Event Venues of the Universities to be used for drag shows that involve biological males dressing in women’s clothing, wearing exaggerated female make up and/or exaggerated prosthetics meant to parody the female body type, and that are: open to the public; involve sexualized, vulgar or lewd conduct; and involve conduct that demeans women (Drag Show Events); and
WHEREAS, the Board finds that Drag Show Events are likely to create or contribute to a hostile environment for women contrary to System anti-discrimination policy and Title IX . . ., as these events often involve unwelcome and objectively offensive conduct based on sex for many members of the respective communities of the Universities, particularly when they involve the mockery or objectification of women; and](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7r477jd7q7p2mzmyqfm7jmp7/bafkreiam2cuuz55ed6mkkmnb67eihep65fve7lqniwbzttg27nv3n5yd5e@jpeg)
February 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Texas A&M is claiming it needs to ban drag shows from campus because they create a hostile environment for women on campus, and involve the mockery or objectification of women. It's one of the most laughable arguments I can imagine.