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11/23/2022

Guess which side I'm on...

Check out CQ Researcher on the Pros and Cons of U.S.-China Cooperation on Green Energy as COP27 wraps up in Sharm El Sheikh.

http://mterrycooke.com/2022/11/22/pro-con-u-s-china-clean-energy-cooperation/…

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CQ Researcher asked me to argue the Pro side of the question “Should the U.S. cooperate with China in the global transition to clean energy.” That Pro/Con feature was published last week as p…

10/12/2022

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With the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) kicking off this coming Sunday, it’s useful to step back from the game of handicapping short-term odds and to take for a m…

07/14/2021

The tech lens on a 20-year path of U.S.-China relations.

https://mterrycooke.com/2021/07/14/tech-retrospective/

06/29/2021

Early Days of PRC Macro-Development Ambition

http://mterrycooke.com/2021/06/25/macro-development-ambitions/

In July 1989, I was at my desk at the U.S. Consulate General Shanghai when I received a call notifying me that a small group of senior officials from the Shanghai Municipal Government would be comi…

06/28/2021

A Tip-Point in U.S.-China Relations

On May 27th speaking at the annual Stanford University Oksenberg Conference, Kurt Campbell, Biden’s National Security Council Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs, delineated the new ‘c…

06/19/2021

G7 Leaders Eye China with Symbolism-Heavy, Substance-Light Announcements

https://mterrycooke.com/2021/06/18/g7-leaders-eye-china-with-symbolism-heavy-substance-light-announcements/

09/03/2020

When I lived in the Himalayas in the early 1980s, the villagers in Manang would frequently distill their harvested buckwheat into potent ‘rakshi' (रक्सी), the Nepali word for spirits (which carries the exact same double meaning of “high-proof alcoholic beverage” and “supernatural beings” as does the English word). An aspect of the distillation process which I gained appreciation for as I observed and sometimes lent a hand was the quantity of the grain stock needed to produce a given quantity of home-grown moonshine. [ 1,285 more word ]

When I lived in the Himalayas in the early 1980s, the villagers in Manang would frequently distill their harvested buckwheat into potent ‘rakshi’ (रक्सी), the Nepali word for spirits (which c…

08/31/2020

Volume 2, Number 4 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series The weekend’s big development in the technology arena is Beijing’s eleventh-hour move to alter the timing and trajectory of the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operation. We touched on the Trump Administration’s August moves against TikTok’s parent Bytedance in the U.S./China De-Coupling: 4 Levels of Risk post two weeks ago. On August 6th, President Trump signed… [ 1,840 more word ]

Volume 2, Number 4 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series The weekend’s big development in the technology arena is Beijing’s eleventh-hour move to alter the timing and trajectory of the…

08/28/2020

Bear with me. I’m going to kick off today’s post with a snapshot about how we organize the blog’s content week by week in order to set the stage for then revealing the slight wrinkle with today’s post. Boring. Hang in there, though … there’s a good reason. The TEA Collaborative produces three blog-posts per week: on Mondays (aspirationally, at least) we put out a tech-related post which takes care of the T in our name; on Wednesdays (ditto) an energy/environment post which covers the letter E; and on Fridays (ditto) an A post for Ambitions (by which we mean the effort to chronicle the seventy-year undertaking by the government of the People’s Republic of China to leverage their huge population, along with other assets, to confront the world with a new, ambitious model of change at vast scale and speed). [ 1,578 more word ]

Bear with me. I’m going to kick off today’s post with a snapshot about how we organize the blog’s content week by week in order to set the stage for then revealing the slight wrinkle with today’s p…

08/26/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic holds lots of lessons for addressing the climate change challenge. I'll tackle the knottiest set of lessions -- those concerning differing global responses, U.S. partisan cleavages, the psychology of risk and individual choice, and the ethics -- in an upcoming post. For now, I will simply set out a list of ten major impacts which the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the climate change mitigation effort. [ 892 more words ]

The COVID-19 pandemic holds lots of lessons for addressing the climate change challenge. I’ll tackle the knottiest set of lessions — those concerning differing global responses, U.S. p…

08/25/2020

Volume 2, Number 3 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series A U.S.-led initiative to reach out to China and to welcome it into the community of Western nations began with President Nixon trip to Beijing in February 1972. Orchestrated by Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s National Security Advisor at the time, the trip was a brilliant Cold War gambit to exploit the growing rift between Moscow and Beijing. [ 1,647 more word ]

Volume 2, Number 3 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series A U.S.-led initiative to reach out to China and to welcome it into the community of Western nations began with President Nixon …

08/22/2020

Everything that I have ever done professionally has been approached and viewed through the lens of one of two disciplines. Eventually, I learned to combine the two. The first was the discipline of cultural anthropology. A twelfth-grade class in 20th c. religious thought led me to major in Asian Comparative Religion at Princeton which led me (after a year of traveling overland from Europe to Taiwan via Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal) to a joint MA/PhD program at the University of California at Berkeley. [ 1,299 more word ]
http://mterrycooke.com/2020/08/22/where-i-stand/