@robin_j_brooks How is it destabilizing the world? Why is it a problem if people enjoy buying Chinese products? Why should they be prevented from spending their money the way they want? I could see the problem if the capital account surplus can't be invested well, but ROIC is high.

@JDVance "The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning..." Hamilton, Federalist 78

@elonmusk @DOGE "though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." Th. Jefferson, First Inaugural

@JamesSurowiecki Sigh. Poor Mexico. So far from God. So close to the United States.

@ggreenwald @RnaudBertrand Remember Rex Tillerson? No? I would not take Rubio too seriously. The mantra of this administration is they need us more than we need them. If there is a text to study, I would suggest Hobbes's Leviathan. We are to be Leviathan internationally and Trump is Leviathan in US.

@georgetownsfs @RushDoshi @GeorgetownCSS On the Xi-Trump personal relationship, in general, we should avoid putting too much emphasis on these personal relations. Gorbachev and Reagan developed a good relationship that led to the end of the cold war, but what remains of that era now?

@ForeignAffairs This is a great tragedy. I have been impressed by the Chinese students I have met here, but as one reminded me, just remember, we don't represent all of China. I don't know how we expect to influence China positively if we alienate those who want to be our friends.

@JamesSurowiecki In a letter to Lafayette of 15 August 1786, Washington called himself "a Citizen of the great republic of humanity at large." We seem to have come a long way from Washington's sense of humanity.

@ggreenwald "It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence." G. Washington. Also never heard in Washington now.

@johnfund "the necessity of [the Senate's] co-operation, in the business of appointments, will be a considerable and salutary restraint upon the conduct of [the President]" Hamilton, Federalist 76. What we have here is a test of whether Hamilton was right.

@RnaudBertrand There is a saying from the American Revolution: If we don't hang together, we'll all hang separately.

@AlexNowrasteh The Statue of Liberty used to symbolize the United States. It was, in the words of Emma Lazarus, the Mother of Exiles. Sadly, we have lost that spirit.

@ball1_ball @LHSummers George Washington on the US role in the world: It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

@AlexNowrasteh What we have here is a challenge to Madison's design to prevent abuse of power by setting ambition against ambition. He warned about an elective monarchy. Is that where we are headed? What are the limits on express and inherent powers?

@GlennLuk If industrial policy works, why didn't the Soviet economy prevail? Why didn't Japan become No. 1? It seems to work for a short time, but as these precedents indicate, it fails to adapt. Better to put money into education and let the students decide where their future lies.

@RnaudBertrand @RushDoshi Declaration of Independence says we view countries with which we are at peace as friends. Legislation that designates such countries as adversaries contradicts that. I'd be interested in seeing defenders of the adversaries act explain why they believe the Declaration is wrong.

@GlennLuk @HongshenZhu I made the comparison in 1995, when Japan rather than China was seen as the economic rival.

@Brad_Setser In 1910, Norman Angell argued in "The Great Illusion" that Europe was too integrated for war to make sense. But economic nationalism had been growing, with countries seeing other growing economies as security threats. It is the rhetoric of fear that is dangerous.

@RnaudBertrand If the Chinese are not willing to learn from us, then why have so many Chinese students come here? I once asked a Chinese law student what she was studying. American zoning regulations, she replied. It's not a question of imposing, but of learning from others to improve.

@shanlonwu The decision undermines Madison's scheme to protect our liberties by setting ambition against ambition. The judiciary has declared it has no such ambition. The only check on executive power now rests with the legislature, but Congress is riven by the spirit of faction.