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Ian Hall
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Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific stuff, snakes when I find one. Usual caveats.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 20h
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 1d
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AFP: "WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Friday urged China to change its growth model, arguing that its soaring trade surplus risked sparking new trade barriers. “The $1.2 trillion trade surplus is not sustainable because the rest of the world cannot...
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WTO chief urges China to shift on trade surplus
FILE: Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva on February 16, 2024. (Photo by PIERRE ALBOUY /
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AR Hanlon @aaronrhanlon.com · 1d
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 1d
Poison dart frogs. Notoriously native to Siberia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says
There is no innocent explanation for the toxin being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, Foreign Office says.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 1d
And it is a colossally resource intensive next-most-likely-word machine.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 1d
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 2d
I guess this was inevitable, given the evidence likely to be put before the court. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Indian man admits plot to kill US-based Sikh separatist leader
Nikhil Gupta faces a possible 40-year sentence in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d
Exclusive: India's Reliance wins US licence for Venezuelan oil, sources say reut.rs/463vI7r
Exclusive: India's Reliance wins US licence for Venezuelan oil, sources say
The United States has issued a general licence to India's Reliance Industries Ltd that will allow the refiner to buy Venezuelan oil directly without violating sanctions, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 4d
Good grief.
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Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 4d
Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 4d
Sigh. "Initially stating that five jets were shot down, Trump gradually raised that number to seven in October, and then eight in November." Now ten. www.dawn.com/news/1972507...

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 5d
Bravo, QUT.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 5d
Behold the sharp wit and subtle banter of debate in the Mother of Parliaments!

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5d
Meanjin's back!
Screenshot of email announcement that reads: Meanjin returns home Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane 80 years after it relocated to Melbourne. QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Sheil said: “QUT is delighted to bring Meanjin home to Meanjin / Magandjin – the lands of the Turrbal and Yugara peoples – where the journal was founded and where our Gardens Point campus now stands.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won't even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don't think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like the UK will soon have its 7th prime minister in ten years. Let’s hope this one is indeed lucky.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 8d
The decision of my university's email system to block review requests from manuscript central is generating more mixed feelings than I would have anticipated. It doesn't help that I still get the irritated follow up messages from editors asking why I haven't replied.
a man with a mustache is laughing with his mouth open in a blurry photo .
ALT: a man with a mustache is laughing with his mouth open in a blurry photo .
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 9d
Very hard to imagine that a major Indian paper would have published a picture like this under Trump 1.0.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 9d
It has to be noted that New Delhi has so far refused to confirm that India will indeed stop or slow the flow of Russian oil. And let's not forget that China continues to import this oil in considerable quantities, with little or no response from Washington. 2/2

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 9d
I am relieved to see this climbdown from the Trump administration, removing the 25% additional tariff on India imposed due to the latter's imports of Russian oil. But damage is still being done to US credibility and the US-India relationship. 1/2 www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/t...
Trump signs executive order announcing removal of 25% penalty tariff on India for buying Russian oil
Trump signs executive order announcing removal of 25% penalty tariff on India for buying Russian oil | World News
www.hindustantimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10d
Anit, rather. Cursed spell correct.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10d
Yes, I was also thinking about Anita’s book. What worries me are the strategic implications of certain kinds of operation - certainly we saw that causing big issues during Sindoor, where Indian efforts at achieving escalation dominance unnerved external observers.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 10d
"Jo ucchit samjho woh karo..." says a Defence Minister to a General. Not my area, but I think that what is emerging about what happened in 2020-21 and in May 2025 might well lead scholars to revise their understandings of India's civil-military relations. theprint.in/defence/augu...
August 29-30, 2020: Inside details of how Indian Army surprised China at Rechin La & PLA ‘blinked first’
Some of the Army's finest—17 Mountain Strike Corps, Para SF & Special Frontier Force—had taken part in the operation to dominate areas along LAC.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11d
Extraordinary that Russian operations depend on a US system - and the Kremlin allows it. Also extraordinary that the US permits this.
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Mass reports of Russian operations paralyzed at the front in the aftermath of losing Starlink.

"Command and control of troops at the front is virtually paralyzed.

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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 11d
Mass reports of Russian operations paralyzed at the front in the aftermath of losing Starlink.

"Command and control of troops at the front is virtually paralyzed.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 11d
A rather stern local. Jakarta.

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Blue Security @bluesecprogram.bsky.social · 11d
OUT NOW Maritime Affairs Issue 18 | Ensuring Cybersecurity in Ports for Major Port States in Southeast Asia by Su Wai Mon and Vu Hai Dang.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11d
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.