Gregory Kulacki
@gkucs
Director, East Asia, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists. Non-Resident Fellow, Research Center for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons at Nagasaki University. Cross-cultural sojourner.
The difference in the content and quality of these two leaders' remarks was astounding.
If you're wondering where the Marine Expeditionary Force that left from Okinawa might be headed, a look at a map of the strait might help inform that guess.
From Sam Collitt, Carren Jao, Cindy Tsai (2026). State of Chinese Americans Survey 2025. Committee of 100 and NORC at the University of Chicago.
Hope all of my friends and colleagues in Japan, especially in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tokyo, will take the opportunity to see this very powerful and important film.
One unavoidable and less romantic aspect of organizing an International dialogue of great consequence.
"At this point, China alone already has 50 percent more production capacity for PV panels than is thought to be necessary to hit an “optimized” Net Zero trajectory for CO2 emissions."
The day after Trump suggested the US would resume explosive nuclear testing "immediately," the US was the only nation to vote against a UN statement affirming the importance of the treaty that prevents it.
This from two men who engineered the "financial innovations" that crashed the global economy in 2008. Not linking to their op-ed. The fewer people who read it the better.
Many thanks to Lyle Goldstein and everyone at the Watson Institute's China Initiative for the invite to participate in the most thought-provoking, well-organized China-related event I have attended in quite a long time.
I understand they’ve come and gone in waves since then. The tree we were sitting under was planted by Ladybird Johnson in 1965.
"Accepting there are no quick-fixes can reduce urgency-driven pressure and allow us to focus on systemic solutions that address root causes over time instead of chasing immediate results. Patience and persistence are key tools in this fight against authoritarianism."
Taken on the corner of 2nd NE and Mass Ave walking back to Union Station from a meeting on Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. A quintessentially American experience. The man and Exxon's celebration are not aberrations, nor was my meeting.
The second "A" is MAGA is the most important. When people long for something better they imagine existed in the past, it can distort their present and impoverish their future. The 2nd coming of DT seems to be a moment of decline; an expression of a hopeless and decaying culture.
윤석열 탄핵소추안 부결은 국민 부결, 헌법 부결, 민주주의 부결입니다. 가치나 윤리, 소중한 것이라고 부를 수 있는 모든 것을 부결했습니다. 파도는 크게 몰아치기 전에 잠시 한 번 밀려나갑니다. 윤석열이라는 모래성에 어디 계속 안주하라지요. 거센 민심의 파도, 단 한 번에 싹 쓸려 나가고 말 것입니다. 다만, 여당을 아무리 비난해도 차마 저의 부끄러움까지 다 씻진 못하겠습니다. 윤석열 탄핵소추안을 통과시키지 못해 국민 여러분께 진심으로 죄송합니다. 저는 이미 다시 시작했습니다. 다음에는 반드시, 반드시 통과시키겠습니다.
It is important to remember that 1st #Korea NA vote on impeachment was a disappointment, but not a defeat. Yoon's own party wants him out ASAP, but prefers he not be impeached. A resignation may be pending. And if not, a second and successful vote on impeachment may follow.
Our host here in Seoul, and co-organizer of our East Asia Quadrilateral Dialogue (Japan, Korea, China, US - the inclusive Quad - fighting his way into the National Assembly to do his constitutional duty and vote on rescinding Yoon's Marshall law decree. Tonight he will vote on a proposal to impeach.
