Joseph Wong
@josephwongut.bsky.social
Prof & VP U of Toronto, author, political scientist, dad, Raptors fan.
Reposting for Canada Day! Investing in a Canadian elbows-up strategy. My June op-ed in @thestar.com, on Canada's middle power moment on the global stage.
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
July 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Reposting for Canada Day! Investing in a Canadian elbows-up strategy. My June op-ed in @thestar.com, on Canada's middle power moment on the global stage.
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Congrats to all @uoft.bsky.social grads! It never rains on convocation day! #uoftgrad25
June 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Congrats to all @uoft.bsky.social grads! It never rains on convocation day! #uoftgrad25
This is Canada's moment. My Toronto Star op-ed on what Canada needs to do to assert our global leadership amidst huge changes to the international order.
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Rise of the middle powers. Here’s how Canada can wean itself off of U.S. dependence
As Prime Minister Mark Carney hosts U.S. President Donald Trump and the rest of the G7 next week, leaders of middle powers like Canada can become less dependent on America
www.thestar.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is Canada's moment. My Toronto Star op-ed on what Canada needs to do to assert our global leadership amidst huge changes to the international order.
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Strategy to bring back manufacturing to #America: by levying tariffs on #steel and aluminum, key manufacturing inputs, making them more expensive for American manufacturers. Makes total (non)sense. #MAGA
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Trump's tariffs are hammering the industry he wants to save
If the tariffs fail to bring a manufacturing revival, it would weaken the prospects of a GOP coalition that increasingly relies on working-class voters.
www.politico.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Strategy to bring back manufacturing to #America: by levying tariffs on #steel and aluminum, key manufacturing inputs, making them more expensive for American manufacturers. Makes total (non)sense. #MAGA
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Reposted by Joseph Wong
This piece in the NY Times correctly hones in on why international students are vital to US interests
Kicking them out will destroy the research & development pipeline that has propelled the US into global leadership in science & tech
Kicking them out will destroy the research & development pipeline that has propelled the US into global leadership in science & tech
June 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This piece in the NY Times correctly hones in on why international students are vital to US interests
Kicking them out will destroy the research & development pipeline that has propelled the US into global leadership in science & tech
Kicking them out will destroy the research & development pipeline that has propelled the US into global leadership in science & tech
Just came back from visiting Oliver, who's doing an internship in Accra, Ghana. I was his age when I went to Asia by myself. Changed my life: thought I was going to be a lawyer, then decided to devote my life to studying that part of the world. #impact #growingup
June 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Just came back from visiting Oliver, who's doing an internship in Accra, Ghana. I was his age when I went to Asia by myself. Changed my life: thought I was going to be a lawyer, then decided to devote my life to studying that part of the world. #impact #growingup
Trump's health secretary, the guy who claims a worm burrowed into his brain, ate part of it and then died there. Explains alot. #rfk
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Trump's health secretary, the guy who claims a worm burrowed into his brain, ate part of it and then died there. Explains alot. #rfk
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Four years ago I wrote a globeandmail op-ed on micro-aggressions and racism. Re-sharing it for #asianheritagemonth #AAPIHeritageMonth
www.utoronto.ca/news/call-ou...
www.utoronto.ca/news/call-ou...
Call out anti-Asian racism – including microaggressions, Joseph Wong writes in the Globe and Mail
Amid increasing reports of anti-Asian harassment and discrimination in Canada and around the world, Joseph Wong, the University of Toronto's interim vice-president, international, denounces the rising...
www.utoronto.ca
May 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Four years ago I wrote a globeandmail op-ed on micro-aggressions and racism. Re-sharing it for #asianheritagemonth #AAPIHeritageMonth
www.utoronto.ca/news/call-ou...
www.utoronto.ca/news/call-ou...
My 83 yr old mom lookin' like she's running for the Liberal Party of Canada!
May 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
My 83 yr old mom lookin' like she's running for the Liberal Party of Canada!
Guns n Roses over cocktails. @uoft.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Guns n Roses over cocktails. @uoft.bsky.social
Don't poke the polar bear. #CanadaStrong
April 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Don't poke the polar bear. #CanadaStrong
A meeting of minds (coauthors and friends), Dan Ziblatt, Dan Slater, and Rachel Riedl, in Boston, conspiring to strengthen global democracy.
April 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
A meeting of minds (coauthors and friends), Dan Ziblatt, Dan Slater, and Rachel Riedl, in Boston, conspiring to strengthen global democracy.
I assign #PopeFrancis encyclical in my class b/c in it he makes the simple yet powerful point: unfair inequality and environmental degradation are morally wrong and we need to do something about it. Flawed as popes are, he was a rare one #RIPPopeFrancis
April 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I assign #PopeFrancis encyclical in my class b/c in it he makes the simple yet powerful point: unfair inequality and environmental degradation are morally wrong and we need to do something about it. Flawed as popes are, he was a rare one #RIPPopeFrancis
30 years ago we met as first-year PhD students @UWMadison. Spending this past weekend together at my cottage, reminiscing and realizing how our profs back then, who seemed so old, were younger than we are today! Grateful for these guys! #gradschool #phdlife
April 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
30 years ago we met as first-year PhD students @UWMadison. Spending this past weekend together at my cottage, reminiscing and realizing how our profs back then, who seemed so old, were younger than we are today! Grateful for these guys! #gradschool #phdlife
The notion that Trump defying the courts poses a constitutional crisis is misleading. The fact we have to contemplate that at all is the crisis. His defiance would be the death knell of democracy. #SCOTUS
April 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The notion that Trump defying the courts poses a constitutional crisis is misleading. The fact we have to contemplate that at all is the crisis. His defiance would be the death knell of democracy. #SCOTUS
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I talked on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the economic and political implications of the trade war which the U.S. started www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
China has been preparing for U.S. tariffs 'for years,' says expert | Hanomansing Tonight
China has raised tariffs on U.S. imports to 125 per cent. Victor Shih, the director of 21st Century China Center, joins Hanomansing Tonight to break down how the trade war between U.S. and China conti...
www.cbc.ca
April 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I talked on @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social about the economic and political implications of the trade war which the U.S. started www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
April 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.
If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
April 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.
Political economy 101 -- non-tariff barrier: when a country in the midst of a trade war decides it's just not going to sell you things you need anymore. #TrumpTariffs #TradeWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies
Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Political economy 101 -- non-tariff barrier: when a country in the midst of a trade war decides it's just not going to sell you things you need anymore. #TrumpTariffs #TradeWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
China will suffer, to be sure, because it will lose sales and export revenue. The US, however, likely to suffer more because it can't make the things that China makes and #America needs. #TariffWar #China
April 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
China will suffer, to be sure, because it will lose sales and export revenue. The US, however, likely to suffer more because it can't make the things that China makes and #America needs. #TariffWar #China
Tariffs 101: America imports alot, thus huge trade deficits. It's not getting ripped off, just doesn't really make anything Americans want/need. #TrumpTariffs make imports (i.e. everything) cost more, so that Americans will make stuff for themselves. Make sense? Didn't think so.
April 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Tariffs 101: America imports alot, thus huge trade deficits. It's not getting ripped off, just doesn't really make anything Americans want/need. #TrumpTariffs make imports (i.e. everything) cost more, so that Americans will make stuff for themselves. Make sense? Didn't think so.
I find the two 4-letter words that explain much of what's going on with and in the Trump administration are "dumb" and "evil."
March 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I find the two 4-letter words that explain much of what's going on with and in the Trump administration are "dumb" and "evil."
"You want to live in TAIWAN?!?" exclaims Parker Posey's character on #WhiteLotus3 ep 5, confusing #Thailand with #Taiwan yet again. Sigh.
March 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"You want to live in TAIWAN?!?" exclaims Parker Posey's character on #WhiteLotus3 ep 5, confusing #Thailand with #Taiwan yet again. Sigh.
Taking Jackie Robinson down from DoD site, then restoring him, but not because of his contributions to combating #racism is like saying ... #JackieRobinson did not break the racial color line in baseball, transforming pro sports & #America forever.
March 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Taking Jackie Robinson down from DoD site, then restoring him, but not because of his contributions to combating #racism is like saying ... #JackieRobinson did not break the racial color line in baseball, transforming pro sports & #America forever.