Ian Hall
@drianhall.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific stuff, snakes when I find one. Usual caveats.
"In a post on X on Saturday, Xue [China's consul general in Osaka] shared a news article about Takaichi's remarks about Taiwan and commented 'the dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off'." www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Japan protests 'extremely inappropriate' comments by Chinese envoy
Japan said on Monday it had complained to China about "extremely inappropriate" remarks by one of its diplomats towards Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"In a post on X on Saturday, Xue [China's consul general in Osaka] shared a news article about Takaichi's remarks about Taiwan and commented 'the dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off'." www.reuters.com/world/china/...
If this was a terrorist attack, it will test the Modi government’s promise that the ceasefire in May was just a ceasefire, not a peace settlement. But New Delhi doesn’t have clear or clean options for further strikes. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Delhi Red Fort explosion: At least eight killed after blast in car
Twenty more were injured in the blast, the cause of which is still unknown, authorities say.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If this was a terrorist attack, it will test the Modi government’s promise that the ceasefire in May was just a ceasefire, not a peace settlement. But New Delhi doesn’t have clear or clean options for further strikes. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The Pakistani economy is in dire straits. A prolonged war could bleed its economy further.
Why a Full-blown War Against the Taliban May Not Benefit Pakistan
The Pakistani economy is in dire straits. A prolonged war could bleed its economy further.
buff.ly
November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The Pakistani economy is in dire straits. A prolonged war could bleed its economy further.
Pluribus.
Alien Virus Zombie Altruists.
Alien Virus Zombie Altruists.
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Pluribus.
Alien Virus Zombie Altruists.
Alien Virus Zombie Altruists.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
I will admit, I am curious to see how all this ends.
Collins: When the president says there's virtually no inflation and that grocery prices are going down, do you agree with him on that?
Greene: No. I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high.
Greene: No. I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high.
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I will admit, I am curious to see how all this ends.
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Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
👇I have to write something on Trump's policy towards India and I don't know where to start. There are no frameworks other than court politics, personal interests, and 1980s (and/or 1880s?) nostalgia.
🧵 I'm trying to finish out a (slightly) overdue piece about how it's a waste of time to analyze Trump foreign policy through standard frameworks like "national interests," "geopolitics," "realpolitik," "grand strategy," and the like.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
👇I have to write something on Trump's policy towards India and I don't know where to start. There are no frameworks other than court politics, personal interests, and 1980s (and/or 1880s?) nostalgia.
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... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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“The thought process that a Modi-Trump meeting would be able to set the clock right has been replaced by avoiding any meeting,” writes Shanthie Mariet D’Souza in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/will-trade-deal-repair-india-us-ties
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/will-trade-deal-repair-india-us-ties
Will a trade deal repair India-US ties?
New Delhi’s optimism about Trump's return has given way to punitive tariffs, stalled negotiations, and diplomatic drift.
www.lowyinstitute.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
“The thought process that a Modi-Trump meeting would be able to set the clock right has been replaced by avoiding any meeting,” writes Shanthie Mariet D’Souza in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/will-trade-deal-repair-india-us-ties
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/will-trade-deal-repair-india-us-ties
AI: From bubble to bailout in how many Scaramuccis?
"(OpenAI) is hoping the federal govt will support its efforts by helping to guarantee the financing for chips behind its deals, Friar said. The depreciation rates of AI chips remain uncertain, making it more expensive for companies to raise the debt needed to buy them."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
AI: From bubble to bailout in how many Scaramuccis?
The new issue of Asian Politics & Policy has a bunch of good articles on Myanmar, where the conflict drags ever on, and the broader effects on Southeast Asia. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19430787...
<em>Asian Politics & Policy</em> | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The new issue of Asian Politics & Policy has a bunch of good articles on Myanmar, where the conflict drags ever on, and the broader effects on Southeast Asia. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19430787...
“This country was built on whaling. Australia used to have a thriving whaling industry until it shut down by woke leftists. City elites simply wouldn’t understand the quiet dignity of turning a majestic marine mammal into lamp fuel”.
“What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"
Nationals To Resurrect Australian Whaling Industry As Part Of Exciting New Energy Policy — The Shovel
“What we need is a sensible, modern approach to energy policy and hunting whales and killing them for their oil is exactly that"
theshovel.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“This country was built on whaling. Australia used to have a thriving whaling industry until it shut down by woke leftists. City elites simply wouldn’t understand the quiet dignity of turning a majestic marine mammal into lamp fuel”.
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"On one side are dishonest authors and institutions seeking to inflate their reputations. On the other are industrial-scale productions of fake science publications and publishers charging spiralling publication fees to maximise their profits."
A tide of fabricated research risks scientific integrity
Manipulation, disinformation and fakery could lead to a knowledge collapse
on.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"On one side are dishonest authors and institutions seeking to inflate their reputations. On the other are industrial-scale productions of fake science publications and publishers charging spiralling publication fees to maximise their profits."
What a time to be alive.
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
What a time to be alive.
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#China: It has been two years since Minnie Chan, a defence reporter at the #SCMP, disappeared during a trip to Beijing after covering a military conference. As the general indifference surrounding her case raises fears of state repression, RSF urges the Chinese regime to disclose her whereabouts.
Disappearance of Hong Kong journalist in China deeply concerning
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is greatly concerned over the disappearance of Minnie Chan, a reporter for Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post, who went missing in China in late October after she...
rsf.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Idly reading through an enterprise agreement and…oh… I had no idea there were set rates for that kind of thing.
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Idly reading through an enterprise agreement and…oh… I had no idea there were set rates for that kind of thing.
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"Sources at Parliament, who wouldn’t speak on the record for fear of retribution, said the letter ...revealed how China’s government monitors New Zealanders ...they believe China is sending people to spy on events organised by Kiwi supporters of Taiwan."
China scolds Kiwi MPs in a brazen letter that few want to talk about
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
China scolds Kiwi MPs in a brazen letter that few want to discuss
Sources at Parliament believe China is spying on events related to Taiwan in New Zealand.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
"Sources at Parliament, who wouldn’t speak on the record for fear of retribution, said the letter ...revealed how China’s government monitors New Zealanders ...they believe China is sending people to spy on events organised by Kiwi supporters of Taiwan."
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal.
In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
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Last month saw a new high in 2025 for Russian missiles fired at Ukraine.
It happens when peaceniks/refuseniks + useful idiots continue to hope or believe Putin wants to negotiate, refuse to punish, or even try to stop the indicted war criminal.
2 choices. Stop Russia or condone killing civilians.
It happens when peaceniks/refuseniks + useful idiots continue to hope or believe Putin wants to negotiate, refuse to punish, or even try to stop the indicted war criminal.
2 choices. Stop Russia or condone killing civilians.
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Last month saw a new high in 2025 for Russian missiles fired at Ukraine.
It happens when peaceniks/refuseniks + useful idiots continue to hope or believe Putin wants to negotiate, refuse to punish, or even try to stop the indicted war criminal.
2 choices. Stop Russia or condone killing civilians.
It happens when peaceniks/refuseniks + useful idiots continue to hope or believe Putin wants to negotiate, refuse to punish, or even try to stop the indicted war criminal.
2 choices. Stop Russia or condone killing civilians.
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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Amazing set of photos of Trump showing Xi a note that cracks him up, and more, from their meeting this week.
Source: www.whitehouse.gov/gallery/pres...
Source: www.whitehouse.gov/gallery/pres...
November 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Amazing set of photos of Trump showing Xi a note that cracks him up, and more, from their meeting this week.
Source: www.whitehouse.gov/gallery/pres...
Source: www.whitehouse.gov/gallery/pres...
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NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀