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Joseph Wong

@josephwongut.bsky.social
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Prof & VP U of Toronto, author, political scientist, dad, Raptors fan.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Inequality fuels democratic decay almost everywhere, yet South Korea and Taiwan keep thriving. Their secret is the welfare state: Universal healthcare, pensions, and social protection have given citizens concrete reasons to trust democracy. 🆕 by @josephwongut.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Losers gonna be losers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system
US president using office and intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in elections before midterms
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Me and my PhD mentees with the Trudeau Foundation Scholars program. Celebrating our last "official" conference together in Osoyoos BC. Last official one means the start of lifelong unofficial ones to come! #friendship #academia #mentorship
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The perilous intersection of data sovereignty, energy demands and public health. #AI #Publichealth #enegy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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As data centers boom, Virginians breathe the exhaust of 10,000 diesel generators
Pollution from Virginia's many data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, analysis of state permits and corporate disclosures shows.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Debt is up, inflation up, affordability down, losing support of allies, increasingly isolated glibally, violence is up, war is raging. Time for change. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...
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As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We typically think of democracy in terms of winning elections. But increasingly the durability of democracy is the willingness to concede defeat, to lose. Orban's defeat is an important milestone because he conceded his defeat, something we can no longer take for granted in fledgling democracies.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
And Hitler had his Brownshirts (SA). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump threatens to send ICE to airports on Monday amid DHS funding standoff
President attacks ‘Radical Left Democrats’ after homeland security funding bill again sinks in Senate
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Just finished #Murakami's most recent. Capsule review: Classic HM but leans more into the magical / surreal / fantastical side of things. As with all HM novels, the writing is beautiful, alluring & seductive. I can read 50 pages, have no idea what's going on and yet can't put it down!
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This makes sense because it totally makes no sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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Trump’s War in Iran, and Rising Gas Prices, Collide With Midterm Agenda
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uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Some educators, like @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social @josephwongut.bsky.social, are embracing AI as a teaching tool which he discusses on CBC radio's Cross Country Checkup with Ian Hanomansing (48:00). www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Surely, voters must understand this is inflation and has an effect on affordability for regular Americans. Surely they must. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/b...
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In most countries, politics is divided along a left-right spectrum. In #America it appears the major divide is between the morally and the immorally evil.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
3 questions: what is the goal of this war (i.e. what will end it); can it be contained or will it continue to spread rapidly; and where is Congress? #Iran www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Airstrikes hit Iran-Iraq border as US and Israeli plan to mobilise Kurds gathers pace
Experts say backing Iran’s ethnic communities could ‘open up a hornet’s nest’ and increase risk of chaotic civil war
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Wow, what a huge honor! Thanks Lev! I look forward to listening, having read your book and know it is timely, empirically rich and critically important as we work to ensure democratic resilience in Taiwan.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
An excellent take on why ending an autocracy does not necessarily mean starting a democracy. #Iran www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Which regime? What change? Iran’s complexity means there are no magic bullets
Iran, almost uniquely, has neither a single unified governing regime nor a single set of motives and aspirations among those seeking its ouster
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Why is the Canadian ambassador presenting his credentials to Trump in a thrift junk store?
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Was it just me or did it seem odd that in the run-up to the men's gold medal hockey game, American commentators, in describing the US Canada rivalry, kept alluding to the 1980 match between the US and the Soviets at the height of the cold war. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | This Is How Canada Could Get Its Revenge
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NPR @npr.org · 23/02/2026
Ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, evidence continues to mount that President Trump is facing political headwinds. n.pr/4s3mGQj
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Poll: Most say the state of the union is not strong and the U.S. is worse off
Ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, evidence continues to mount that President Trump is facing political headwinds.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Talk about some ambitious post-retirement planning. #Trump #BoardOfPeace www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Would Have Global Scope but One Man in Charge
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is Canada's moment. Talking about global leadership with David Ossip, Joannah Lawson and Valerie Pringle at the Upper Canada College Founders Dinner. Leadership that addresses complexity, with empathy and with conviction to the promise of pluralism and inclusion in #Canada.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I cannot believe what is happening in Minnesota. There is no bottom to this. Trump has no incentive to concede as a lame duck president who is clearly out for himself right now. It is like a mob boss on the ropes.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
As Dan Slater and I intimate in our book, development and demo do go hand-in-hand. The erosion of democracy today is a reflection of the failure of development, and specifically, I'm convinced, of inclusive development. The JD Vance-ification of politics reflects this.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Headlines like these just seem so wrong. #putin #trump #europeanunion
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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...
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Congrats to all @uoft.bsky.social grads! It never rains on convocation day! #uoftgrad25
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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...
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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
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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...
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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.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Let me get this straight. Trump wants to reassert American dominance by turning away the best, most talented ppl in the world, because #Trump believes those in the #MAGA base who voted for him are the only ones who can make #America great again?
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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...
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RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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...
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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...
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
My 83 yr old mom lookin' like she's running for the Liberal Party of Canada!
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Guns n Roses over cocktails. @uoft.bsky.social
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Don't poke the polar bear. #CanadaStrong
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A meeting of minds (coauthors and friends), Dan Ziblatt, Dan Slater, and Rachel Riedl, in Boston, conspiring to strengthen global democracy.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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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Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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/...
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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...
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It's so weird to find myself quietly cheering on #Harvard and #China these days.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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...
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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.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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."
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"You want to live in TAIWAN?!?" exclaims Parker Posey's character on #WhiteLotus3 ep 5, confusing #Thailand with #Taiwan yet again. Sigh.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Anything that is not racist is now considered DEI.
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Joseph Wong @josephwongut.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Got my burners for China. Got my burners for Russia. Got my burners for Turkey and Hungary. Getting my burners for...the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
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