indianIRguy
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Oh god....I'm so rry....i was replying to the previous post I'm deleting it....
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deleted this post...confusing content.
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All the best trying to watch a movie...we'll all wait til you come back in a minute...
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Aye boss, doing this first time is nuts, second time would land me in jail... appreciate your tenacity!
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I'm going to burn down my laptop if I see a late post about Matt's coffee machine...
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Isn;t it 4?
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Then I think we're all stoned...let the wait begin...at least 4 hours to go...
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No no, it was always on the left, just that i'm confused if it was the sane name from the beginning or am i hallucinating...
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We hit the 9am est mark, a safe limit to say that the shitshow will likely commence soon....
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HAHAHA
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No I think it had my full name, now it has some weird combination of my shortened first name and last name
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hey do you guys see some shortened text/content in the app portal? I think it went down by three-four lines... I do not want you guys to panic, and certainly i don;t need your ire...
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To be honest, I do not know. But I think that box to the right and my name, I guess, are new...!? It doesn't have my full name... but for all I know, i can 100% be a false alarm...
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6-6:30 IST
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TADA....it's begun!
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Do I dare a pandemic and go to HKS? Or do I chicken out? What do these yield models say about me....?
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3.5 hours to go...I've never prayed so much for someone not to post anything on Tumblr...
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Who said?
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Alright folks! See you tomorrow...let me get some pills for nervous breakdown!
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hey @spnfiim, d'you think we have hope today?
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Hey I know the easiest thing to do is storytelling about the goings on between nations. Please take my words with a bag of salt as I'm an armchair IR newbie at best!
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No, I didn't have any value judgement on the nature of Chinese help. What I intended to express was that if EU wouldn't/couldn't help, someone else is both willing and capable to do so. But as I understand it, foreign policy watersheds were always crises. In China's view, it is doing its best to rise up to the occasion, and I read somewhere that an Eastern European President called Prez Xi as his/his nation's brother. Of course, those nations will need all the help regardless of origin. But once the dust settles, we emerge into a different world where China would have built lasting relationships with countries that shuddered at the idea previously. And China or for that matter any nation would like to be utilitarian and would try to leverage these favors with something more serious on a sober day... today if you ask me should any of those concerns inform the decision to accept help from others, I would say no. Not that we can help, either... At the absolute very least, China would like a little burnishing of its image in the popular opinion of these countries...
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My very humble and meagerly informed opinion: Just like much else in EU, it's a group of countries with disparate capacities. Opening your country to others with different view/power to tackle the disease, with little control over their decision-making or policy, is not the most sovereign thing to do...(maybe I'm a realist, I don't know) I guess helping others for real is good...but oftentimes, mere display of concern for other nations makes a deep impact...the big ones like DE & FR, rather than addressing just the domestic audience, should also speak of others, of course a ventilator or two helps... but then as Italy and Slovakia (?) experienced, if EU falters, someone else is more than pleased to fill the vacuum, and it's not great optics to have China in EU's lawns...
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2-2.5 hours to go...
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I noticed a tiny development. Countries with socialist tendencies responded with much ease than others...India, say, asked most businesses to shut as if it's a child's play. Now I suppose the economic fallout may be addressed later, but for now, it doesn't appear that economic considerations are super important for the state. But the US for example is stuttering in the face of the onslaught. It already announced a stimulus package for economy...is it that it is a big economy so it has to consider it first or is it that the business influences a state more so in a capitalist economy? But the social democracy model in Europe, which came under attack from all fronts, most likely took a fresh breath and unlikely to die in the near future...the essence of Macron's war declaration address reeks of that state largess. Good times.
